She was about eighty feet long, with a beam of probably twenty-two, and displaced approximately a hundred tons.

She was square-sterned and blunt-nosed, evidently built for capacity rather than speed.

Her name, in gold letters on the bow, was quite distinct: _Catspaw_.

Later, when they rounded her stern, they saw that her home port was Norfolk.

Her cargo, or at least so much of it as was above deck, consisted of rough pine boards, and every available foot of space was occupied with it.