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Dimensions of steamer. — Length, 208 feet; beam, 39 feet; extreme, 

 width over guards, 60 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 8 feet 6 inches; 

 extreme height, bottom of hold to top of pilot house, 54 feet. Scale 

 of model, one-fourth inch equals 1 foot. 

 Made in the Museum. Cat. Xo. 160,323 U.S.N.M. 



Model of steam tugboat. 



An iron, single-screw, seagoing steam tug; long, sharp bow, slightly 

 concave at water line ; stem straight and nearly vertical above water, 

 curved and raking below; shallow keel; sharp floor; long, finely- 

 shaped run; overhanging round stern; graceful sheer; flush deck; 

 heavy iron towing bollards forward and aft, also two on each rail; 

 deck house about half the length of tug, covering engine, boilers, etc., 

 and furnishing cabin accommodations for crew; pilot house above 

 forward end of deck house ; boats and skylight on after end. 



PIG. 13. OHIO RIVER STEAMER " GREY EAGLE." 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length between perpendiculars, 102 feet 

 6 inches ; beam, 22 feet ; depth, 11 feet ; gross tonnage, 139.68 ; nomi- 

 nal horsepower, 350. Scale of model, nine-sixteenths inch equals 

 1 foot. 

 Gift of Xeafie & Levy. ' Cat. No. 160,167 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of steam packet. 



The screw steam packet Decatur, of Newburyport, Mass., was built 

 at that city about 1844 from this model. She was employed as a 

 freight and passenger packet, plying between Newburyport and Bos- 

 ton. The model is historically interesting as rej)resenting one of the 

 earliest types of American screw coasting steamers. 



The Decatur was a wooden, carvel-built, single-screw propeller, 

 vrith moderately sharp and flaring bow ; long, flat floor ; round, easy 

 bilge; straight wall side; rather short run; round stern; lines gener- 

 ally convex and full ; very straight on top. 



