96 BULLETIN 127, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 80 feet; beam, 22 feet 6 

 inches; depth of hold, T feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 

 1 foot. 

 Gift of Joshua Watson. Cat. No. 76,109 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of two-masted schooner. 



The two-masted low-decked schooner Marcia Tribou was built 

 from this model in 1847 at Bucksport, Me., for the West Indian and 

 coastwise trades. 



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

 flaring bow: raking curved stem: short full head; long floor with 

 moderate rise; short, well-formed run; heavy square stern; con- 

 siderable sheer ; short and high quarter-deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — ^Length over all, 88 feet 6 inches; beam, 

 23 feet; depth, 8 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of John Swazey. Cat. No. 76,155 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of two-masted schooner. 



The schooner Lucy was built from this model at Sargentville, Me., 

 in 1852. She was employed in the general coastwise trade, chiefly 

 in carrying lumber, and was finally lost at sea. 



She was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel; wide and compara- 

 tively shalloAv; full, round flaring bow; raking curved stem; short 

 full head; long low floor; short full run; very heavy square stern; 

 short high quarter-deck; good sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 85 feet; between uprights, 

 77 feet : beam, 23 feet 2>h inches ; depth, 7 feet If inches. Scale of 

 model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of Robert Dority. Cat. No. 76,138 U,S,N,M. 



Block model of two-masted schooner. 



The schooner AVakeag was built from this model at Lamoine, Me,, 

 in 1855, for the Atlantic coast and West Indian trades. 



She was a two-masted, wooden, keel schooner, with moderately 

 sharp, convex bow, strongly flaring above ; reflex curved stem ; long 

 low floor ; short full run ; vertical sternpost ; large square stern ; 

 very little sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 102 feet; between per- 

 pendiculars, 90 feet ; beam, 25 feet 2^^ inches ; depth, 8 feet 5^ inches. 

 Scale of model, one-third inch equals 1 foot. 



The ^yal'eag is typically representative of a class of compara- 

 tively small two-masted coasting schooners built in eastern Maine 

 in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century. An important object 

 in the design was to secure large carrying capacity with special 

 reference to the stowage of lumber. 

 Gift of Hamen Cousins, Cat. No. 76,129 U.S.N.M. 



