CATALOGUE OF THE WATERCRAET COLLECTION, 



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Main yard 



Main topsail yard . . . 

 Main topgallant yard 



Main royal yard 



Fore yard 



Fore-topsail yard . . . 

 Fore-topgallant yard . 

 Fore royal yard 



Length 



of arm 



outside 



lift. 



Inches. 



24 

 26 

 15 



9 



24 

 26 

 15 



9 



Nine hundred and fifty sheets of copper were used to copper her bottom. 



Ciishing's fleet traded chiefly to Europe and the West Indies, a 

 favorite voyage being to carry a cargo of tobacco to Europe from 

 Richmond, Va., and return with a cargo of salt from Liverpool, or 

 of hemp, cordage, and other products from Russia. It is related of 

 one of them that on one occasion she landed a cargo of 700 tons of 

 coal at Jamaica which she had brought from Cardiff. This was a 

 remarkable capacity for a vessel of less than 300 tons, old measure- 

 ment. The brig Keying, built in 1845, and one of the last of the 

 fleet, cost $22,264.98, when ready for sea. 

 Gift of John N. Gushing. Gat. No. 76,058 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of merchant brig. 



The hermaphrodite brig Amethyst was built from this model at 

 Sullivan, Me., in 1838 for the West Indian and coastwise trades. 



She was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel with full round bow, 

 long low floor, w\all side, short full run, heavy square stern, medium 

 sheer. 



