ISV Breakwater

Command. Two decks above the second deck.

1. BR-01 Bridge Fr 30–52 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 25 ('Two decks below the bridge'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 16 ('useful on the bridge'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 29,:131 ('*Breakwater*'s deck')

   Sarah's station; Brant 'stood a little nearer the plot than she needed to, as she does' (Missing, Presumed, chapter 25). Position forward is the drawing's.

2. BR-02 After plot Fr 52–64 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 35 ('a rating on *Breakwater*'s after plot … her board was doing what a board does when nothing is being fed to it')

   The board that goes blank when the reference set comes off. Position abaft the bridge is the drawing's.

Access from above, cabins, the sleeping flat aft, the boats. ⚠ The prose never names this deck; it exists because the bridge is two decks above the second.

1. 1-01 Forward stores hatch, No. 1 Fr 44–50 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 13 ('coming aboard through two hatches on a hand line')

   Two hatches, a hand line, eight days of storing. Which deck the hatches open on is the drawing's.

2. 1-02 Forward stores hatch, No. 2 Fr 62–68 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 13

   The second of the two.

3. 1-03 Cabins and passage Fr 70–120 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Missing, Presumed, chapter 13 ('stood in the passage outside her own cabin') is the only cabin door on the page

   Brant's cabin opens off a passage. Nobody else's door is placed.

4. 1-04 Sleeping flat, after Fr 120–166 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; The Last Manifest, chapter 1 ('four degrees colder at the after end of that flat … every single person who sleeps in there')

   A flat people sleep in, at the after end of which a run of pipework went back on the wrong side of a frame (Oct 2353 — SITE revision). Which flat is the drawing's.

5. 1-05 After ladder, head Fr 160–164 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 44 ('at the head of the after ladder while two people got a length of something up it')

   Runs D1 to D4. Position is the drawing's.

6. 1-06 Boat bay and hoists Fr 168–192 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Missing, Presumed, chapter 14 ('Two of the boat hoists had been hung by different gangs and were two different jobs entirely — you could put your hand on both of them and feel it — and both of them worked and both of them were signed for')

   Hoists, therefore boats; the bay, its door and its deck are the drawing's.

⭐ The deck the books know: galley and mess over the plant, the reference bank flat, the grid wall with its two blank flanges, the after grid space, and the plate. Sarah's forty-minute round (Missing, Presumed, chapter 38) is this deck.

1. 2-01 Passage, forward Fr 52–96 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Missing, Presumed, chapter 11 ('on the second deck, she stopped being able to tell where she was'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 11 ('a temporary heater in a passage')

   The ladder everybody hates is off this run (annotation F60).

2. 2-02 Galley flat Fr 96–112 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 12 ('The galley flat on that ship was on the second deck and was warm because the plant ran under it, which was an accident of the drawing and not anybody's doing'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 29 ('in a flat where the plant runs under')

   Two sittings, 'and the second one was the better one' (Missing, Presumed, chapter 12). A dropped tray goes round two decks (Missing, Presumed, chapter 35).

3. 2-03 After mess — the second sitting's flat Fr 96–116 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 13 ('Prydain was in the after mess'); The Last Manifest, chapter 25 ('That compartment has a warm end and a cold end … a heating run goes up behind the bulkhead by the stanchion. The cold end is the outboard side, where the bulkhead is the hull'); The Last Manifest, chapter 4 (the rota 'on the after side of the mess bulkhead, on the flat between the two doors, where the yard had left a strip of primer'); The Last Manifest, chapter 4,:101 (the bench nobody sits on; the plate rack; the forward door 'the long way round to the plant')

   Two doors, forward and after; the after door is the way to the plant. The section cut out of the second deck with the yard's handwriting inside it hangs here from Sep 2353 (Missing, Presumed, chapter 38–131 — SITE revision).

4. 2-04 Forward one — the reference bank flat Fr 116–146 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 34 ('the reference bank flat with a rack in it and about a hundred feet of passage'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 34 ('The reference bank on the second deck is a rack about the size of a door, and three of Porhal's four packages were on it'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 34 ('Forward one. I'm shutting forward one.')

   The compartment forward of the after grid space. ⚠ SPOILER (Missing, Presumed, chapter 34): sealed under a heat event in September 2353 with Attah inside; 'a compartment that is going to stay shut' (Missing, Presumed, chapter 44).

5. 2-05 The cross-tie compartment Fr 138–146 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 25–15 ('a compartment nobody had a name for, because the yard had drawn it as access and the ship had made it a store … two blank flanges, one on each grid, six feet apart with a wall between them, waiting for a fitting that had been on order since the spring of the year before')

   PRINT shows the two blank flanges and the wall. ⚠ SPOILER (Missing, Presumed, chapter 25): from mid-May 2353 'seventeen feet of pipe in thirteen pieces, hand-bent, brazed, and threaded across the compartment at the height of a man's chest' (ch25:19); taken out under a heat event in August – Bawa killed, Sturrock's arm; Prydain's blanking plate 'is still there' (ch25:223).

6. 2-06 After grid space Fr 146–160 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 14 ('the one volume on this ship where the grid and the boundary run in the same trunk'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 35 ('against a standing instruction on that ship and has been since she was built, for the good reason that the grid and the boundary share a trunk on that hull and always have')

   Standing instruction: nobody goes through it under a live heat event. Vaughan's station on every heat event (Missing, Presumed, chapter 29). 'The after grid space is the reason the thermal side still exists on that hull' (Missing, Presumed, chapter 34).

7. 2-07 The plate compartment Fr 151–158 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 11–63 ('a compartment on the second deck, aft of the frame that had given everybody so much trouble in the autumn … the size of a hand, riveted flat to the bulkhead at about chest height, with the rivets already painted over once'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 44,:51 ('The compartment was drawn for one'; 'riveted to the frame at chest height … The frame it sits on is the one that gave the yard so much trouble in the autumn')

   ⭐ ISV BREAKWATER / CONSTRUCTION YARD THREE / AUTHORISED — JUNE 2350. Eight rivets (Missing, Presumed, chapter 11). On the frame's aft face — 'aft of the frame' (ch11:57) and 'riveted to the frame' (ch44:51) both hold.

8. 2-08 After end of the second deck Fr 160–200 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 25 ('went to the after end of the second deck, where it stayed for a week'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 27 ('stood at the after end of the second deck for a minute coming off, with his hands on the rail')

   A rail. Where the cross-tie pipe lay in a heap on a sheet for a week (SITE, Aug 2353).

Machinery: the instrument seat forward, the plant and exchangers aft under the galley, the thermal side running to the radiators.

1. 3-01 Forward machinery flat — the instrument seat Fr 60–96 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 11 ('The mounting in the forward machinery flat is a seat for a machine that is not aboard yet, and the mass of the machine is a number on a drawing, and every bracket and every bolt under it has been made for that number and for nothing else')

   Why the ship exists: 'built to carry a measuring instrument and a specialist' (Missing, Presumed, chapter 38). Nine people working in the flat on the walk-round.

2. 3-02 Porhal's compartment Fr 104–112 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 12–7 ('on the third deck and had been drawn as a stores space, and somebody had taken a door out of one wall and put a bench along it … this was the compartment with the heat in it'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 34 (the fourth package 'on the bench in his own compartment, where it lives')

   Bench at the wrong height. SITE revision, May 2354: 'a batt of insulation between him and every bulkhead in that compartment … the bunk with the ringing bracket' (The Last Manifest, chapter 41).

3. 3-03 Plant — the after machinery flat Fr 100–166 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 12 ('the plant ran under it'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 25 ('you lose the after machinery flat and everything in it while you do it, because the flat is on the wrong side of the frame'); The Last Manifest, chapter 4–91 ('The exchanger on the third flat … It's the seat, and it's the seat because somebody ran it dry in the yard for about a day and a half')

   Under the galley, which is why the galley is warm. The exchanger with the head off (Oct 2353). The after grid's 'second frame' is counted in here and is not a hull station.

4. 3-04 Thermal side — radiator runs Fr 166–200 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 44 ('the thermal side, where the ship's heat goes out to the radiators and nothing in it anywhere is gentle'); The Last Manifest, chapter 4 ('It goes into pipes and along the ship and out through the radiators, slowly, and where the run is wrong it stops where it is and sits there')

   The after third gets the after grid's power and heat (Missing, Presumed, chapter 44). Radiator area is not stated; the roots are drawn here.

5. 3-05 After ladder Fr 160–164 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 44; The Last Manifest, chapter 1 ('at the bottom of the after ladder … a run of pipework that had been put back on the wrong side of a frame')

Holds, stores, the sheet rack, the locker flat, the after trim.

1. 4-01 Forward hold Fr 40–70 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 13 ('the forward hold had a working party in it every day of that week getting four pallets into a space that had been drawn for three')

   Four into three. Stored for months 'because there is nowhere she is going that sells any of it'.

2. 4-02 Sheet rack — plating store Fr 100–110 published The Last Manifest, chapter 41 ('The store list gives the ship five sheets in the rack on the fourth flat … What is in that rack is a sheet with a corner off it and two holes through the middle where a patch came out in February')

   SITE, May 2354: Sarah measured it with a rule and chalk, twice. Position on the flat is the drawing's.

3. 4-03 Locker flat Fr 110–130 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; The Last Manifest, chapter 41 ('the locker flat, which Senanayake was two days into'); Missing, Presumed, chapter 11–43 ('a locker at the head of a passage and two departments had both been told it was theirs')

   The disputed locker — one hasp on, one hasp off and kept — is drawn at its forward end.

4. 4-04 The tape compartment Fr 170–182 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Missing, Presumed, chapter 11–37 ('Down in the after end there was a compartment that had a strip of grey tape running along the deck plates for about twelve feet, dead straight, going nowhere … where Kirsanov's lot marked out a run and then the run went the other way')

   'It'll be there in thirty years and somebody will write a paper about it.' The compartment is in the after end; the flat is the drawing's.

5. 4-05 After trim Fr 186–206 published Missing, Presumed, chapter 14,:133–135 ('had the after trim gang out and had them looking at ballast'; 'in a volume you cannot stand up in, moving weight the only way weight is ever moved on a hull that is already built: by hand and in the wrong order'; 'forty per cent of it in the after trim')

   'The ship went round to the left more willingly than to the right, and nobody had drawn that' (Missing, Presumed, chapter 14). Forty per cent of it was ballast; the other sixty was Porhal's.

6. 4-06 After ladder, foot Fr 160–164 published The Last Manifest, chapter 1