70 BUKLETIjST 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The A'essel was of about 100 tons burden and her dimensions were 

 about 90 feet in length and 20 feet beam. She was decked over and 

 had a high poop astern and a high forecastle bow. She had three 

 masts, two of them square-rigged, with a lateen sail on the mizzen- 

 mast. 



It is stated that Columbus had a crew of 52 persons on the Santa 

 Maria^ which was undoubtedly a far larger crew than really neces- 

 sary, for a modern vessel comparable in size is mamied hj a crew of 

 six or eight men. 

 Made in the Museum. Cat. No. 244,931 U.S.N.M. 



Model of seventeenth century English sailing vessel. 



The model represents a carvel-built keel ship having a full bluff 

 bow, square at the top ; large, full head ; curved stem, raking strongly 



FIG. IG. SIXGLE-SCREW STEAMSHIP " CAMBUAI." 



below; considerable rise to floor; short but moderately sharp run; 

 straight, nearly vertical sternpost; narrow, square-heeled rudder; 

 high, heavy square stern, much narrower above than below ; tumble- 

 in top side; high forecastle; quarter-deck rises in three sections, 

 each of considerable height, the poop or highest part abaft mizzen- 

 mast. Ship-rigged, with square sails on bowsprit, fore and main 

 masts, and settee sail (lateen sail with forward corner cut off) on 

 mizzenmast; flags set on flagpoles above each topmast head; hemp 

 sails. Jolly-boat stowed on main deck, over grating. 



The model is representative of the type of vessel used to carry 

 English colonists to America in the earh' part of the seventeenth 

 century. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all (stem head to taffrail), 

 66 feet ; beam, 18 feet ; depth amidships, 10 feet ; bowsprit, outboard, 

 26 feet; sprit topmast, 19 feet; spritsail yard, 29 feet; sprit topsail 

 yard, 18 feet; foremast, above main deck, 43 feet; fore-topmast, 

 heel to head, 31 feet; flagpole, above topmast, 7 feet; foreyard, 41 

 feet ; fore-topsail yard, 35 feet ; mainmast, above deck, 45 feet ; main 



