94 BULLETIN 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



This schooner had a moderately sharp, flaring bow, with slightly 

 concaved lines below water line; low floor; rather easy bilge; long 

 run ; light, square stern ; good sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 130 feet 8 inches ; between 

 uprights, 125 feet; beam, 30 feet; depth, 10 feet; waist, deck to top 

 of rail, 4 feet. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of C. P. Carter & Co. Cat. No. 76,076 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of three-masted schooner. 



The three-masted keel schooner William, Frederic^ of Belfast, Me., 

 was built at that city from this model in 1874 by C. P. Carter & Co. 

 She was intended for the general coasting and West Indian trades. 

 Being a keel vessel and deeper than usual, she was well adapted to 

 the sugar and molasses trade and was easy and safe in a seaway. 

 She was framed with hardwood (chiefly beech, maple, and birch) 

 and hackmatack, and planked with hard or yellow pine. The model 

 is painted in imitation of the vessel that was built from it. 



The vessel has a moderately sharp, flaring bow; low floor; wall 

 side ; good run ; light, square stern ; rather strong sheer. The model 

 is deep in proportion to length and beam as compared with the ordi- 

 nary type of coasting schooner. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 137 feet ; on keel, 130 feet ; 

 beam, 32 feet; depth, 15 feet; net tonnage, 430.38; length of 

 spars, foremast, 76 feet; mainmast^ 77 feet; mizzenmast, 78 feet; 

 bowsprit, 34 feet (22 feet outboard) ; jib boom, outside cap, 30 feet; 

 topmasts, each 50 feet; fore and main booms, each 35 feet; spanker 

 boom, 53 feet. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. 



On October 4, 1895, this vessel was abandoned at sea in a sinking 

 condition, in a northeast gale, while on a passage from Saltilla Kiver, 

 Ga., to Belfast, Me. The crew of seven men were taken off by a boat 

 from the steamer Franklin, bound to Boston, Mass., from Baracoa, 

 Cuba. The rescue was effected at great risk, the men on the schooner 

 being compelled to jump into the sea, as the boat could not board the 

 vessel. 



Gift of C. P. Carter & Co. Cat. No. 76,074 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of three-masted schooner. 



The three-masted schooner Meyer and Muller was built from this 

 model at Belfast, Me., in 1883. She was specially designed for the 

 lumber trade of the South Atlantic and Gulf States and also for 

 trading to foreign ports in the Gulf of Mexico. She was therefore 

 made very shallow and wide, so that she might carry a large cargo 

 on a light draught, which was very essential for this trade, since the 

 harbors of the South were generally shallow and difficult to enter 

 with a deep vessel. 



