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BULLETIX 127, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 132 feet; beam, 21 feet 1 

 inches: depth, 8 feet 8 inches. Scale of model, three-eighths inch 

 equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of Sumner, Swasey & Currier. Cat. No. 76,055 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of paddle-wheel steamboat. 



The side-Tvheel steamer Ohio, of Xewburyport, Mass., was built 

 from this model in 1846, to ply as a packet between Newburyport 

 and Boston. Compared with side-wheel steamers of a later date, 

 she had full lines forward and aft, and was rather narrow amidships. 

 The midship cross section is nearly like that of a scow, with a dead- 

 flat floor only slightly rounded at the turn of the bilge, a feature of 

 side-wheel steamers that is still in favor. 



FIG. 14.— AMERICAN STEAM TUG " RATTLER." 



A wooden, carvel-built, paddle-wheel steamer, with rather full con- 

 vex bow, flat floor, short turn to bilge, long, narrow box-shaped 

 midship section, short stern, and wide guard projecting beyond the 

 hull at side and stem. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 133 feet 4 inches ; extreme 

 beam (on guard), 29 feet 8 inches; of hull, 19 feet 4 inches; depth 

 of hull, 6 feet 8 inches ; tonnage, 225 tons, old measurement. Scale of 

 model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of Sumner, Swasey & Currier. Cat. No. 76,056 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of steamship. 



The wooden ship-rigged steamship Meteor was built from this 

 model at Portsmouth, N. II., and launched on May 21, 1864. She 

 was built from subscriptions by merchants of Boston, New York, 

 and elsewhere for the purpose of offering her to the United States 

 Government for the pursuit of the Alabama and other Confederate 

 cruisers, as well as blockade runners, which were then preying upon 

 American commerce or carrjang supplies to the Confederates. 



