There were no doors to these dormitories, each of which contained six berths, in two tiers of three each.

It was intended that the six boys occupying one of these rooms should form a mess.

Between the gangways, or passages, were mess tables, which could be swung up against the partition when not in use.
The steerage was neatly and tastefully fitted up, and furnished, though not so elegantly as the cabins.

It was to be the school room, as well as the parlor and dining room of the boys, and it would compare favorably with such apartments in well-ordered academies on shore.

There was plenty of shelves, pouches, and lockers, under the lower berths, and beneath the bull's eyes at the head of the main gangways, for clothing and books, and each boy had a place for every article which regulations allowed him to possess.
Forward of the foremast there were two large state rooms; that on the starboard side having four berths, for the boatswain, carpenter, sailmaker, and head steward; and the one on the port side with six, for the two cooks and the four under stewards, all of whom were men skilful and experienced in their several departments.