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After being used several years, the Antetope was lost at Delaware 

 Breakwater. She was a good specimen of the large class of deep- 

 sea-going brigs built in Maine during the sixties. 

 Gift of V. L. Coffin. Cat. No. 76,117 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of merchant brig. 



The hermaphrodite bring Minnie Smith was built from this model 

 at Millbridge, Me., in 1871. She was designed principally for the 

 West Indian trade. 



This was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with moderately 

 sharp, convex, flaring bow; stem inversely curved; long head; long 

 floor, with easy turn to bilge ; run of medium length but rather full ; 

 square stern; moderate sheer. 



Dimnensions of vessel. — Length over all, 140 feet 10 inches; beam, 

 molded, 24 feet 10 inches; depth, 13 feet 2 inches. Scale of model, 

 five-sixteenths inch equals 1 foot. 



This vessel, which cost $20,000, was lost within a year after its 

 completion while entering the port of Salerno, Italy. 

 Gift of Capt. Austin Dyer. Cat. No. 76,116 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of merchant brig. 



The hermaphrodite brig, /. W. Parker., of Belfast, Me., was built 

 from this model in 1874, by C. P. Carter & Co. She was designed 

 for the general carrying trade, either foreign or coastwise, but was 

 specially adapted to the West Indian trade (carrying lumber from 

 New England and bringing return cargoes of sugar and molasses) , 

 for which business vessels of this class were in favor. They have 

 oeen largely, if not entirely, superseded in the general coasting trade 

 by three masted and four masted schooners. 



The Parker was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with moder- 

 ately sharp, flaring bow; low, rather flat floor; easy turn to bilge; 

 high wall side ; rather long, but comparatively full run ; light square 

 stern ; strong sheer ; very little rake to stem and sternpost. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 128 feet; beam, molded, 

 27 feet 4 inches; depth, 16 feet. Scale of model, three-eighths inch 

 equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of C. P. Carter & Co. Cat. No. 76,075 U.S.N.M. 



Skeleton model of merchant topsail schooner. 



Prior to 1794 skeleton models like this were exclusively used in 

 shipbuilding. In the year named, block models were first introduced 

 in the shipyards on the Merrimac — at Newbury port, Mass., and 

 vicinity. The use of block models gradually spread, but in some 

 localities, notably in certain shipbuilding sections of Maine, old and 



