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28 hours' steaming at 6 knots an hour. The vessel is fitted with a 

 hoisting engine used for dredging purposes, having two cylinders, 8^ 

 inches in diameter and 9 inches stroke of piston, with cranks at 

 right angles. 



The Fish Ha/iok has been used for hatching shad in the spring and 

 for dredging purposes during the summer months. For the first 

 three years after she was built her principal field of exploration 

 was the inner edge of the Gulf Stream slope, off the southern coast 

 of New England, down to depths of OA^er 700 fathoms. More re- 

 cently she has explored the oyster beds and other inshore areas along 

 the coast. 

 Deposited by Pusey & Jones Co. Cat. No. 39,422 U.S.N.M. 



Model of United States Bureau of Fisheries schooner. 



This vessel known as the Grampus^ has been used for collecting sea 

 fish for fish-cultural purposes, and for prosecuting various scientific 

 researches at sea in which the fish commission has engaged since she 

 was built. She was designed by and built under the supervision of 

 Capt. Joseph W. Collins, formerly of the United States Fish Com- 

 mission. She was launched at Noank, Conn., in the spring of 1886, 

 and went into commission on June 5 of that year. 



The Grampus is a wooden, carvel-built, keel schooner; with long, 

 sharp bow ; concave water lines ; stem straight and nearly vertical 

 above water; strongly curved below; deep keel, rockered at ends; 

 moderately sharp floor ; quick turn to bilge ; slightly tumbling in at 

 top side; long, well-formed run; straight, nearly vertical sternpost; 

 deep, overhanging, strongly raking stern; fine sheer; long quarter- 

 deck; cabin house aft; forecastle under deck forward; fitted with 

 hatches, etc. Rigged as a two-masted, double topmast schooner, with 

 all light sails set as follows: Mainsail; main club topsail (working 

 topsail clewed down on mast head ; foresail ; maintop mast staysail ; 

 jib-headed foregaff topsail; fore staysail; jib; and large jib topsail. 

 (With rare exceptions the working maintop sail and small jib topsail 

 are used instead of balloon sails.) 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, over all, 90 feet; between perpen- 

 diculars, 81 feet; beam, 22 feet 3 inches; depth of hold, 10 feet; 

 registered tonnage, 83.30. Scale of model one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The GhfaTupus was built at Noank, Conn. She is provided with a 

 well located in the middle of the vessel in which fish and marine 

 animals can be kept alive, and taken from distant fishing grounds to 

 the coast stations of the bureau, for fish-cultural purposes or to serve 

 as objects of study and research for biologists. In other important 

 respects she is arranged and equipped to adapt her to carrying on the 

 marine researches and investigations, which are being continuously 

 prosecuted by the bureau. 



