104 BULLETIX 127, UNITED STATES JS^ATIOISTAL MUSEUM. 



PILOT BOATS. 



Block model of pilot boat. 



The pilot boat, Dancing Feather, was built from this model at 

 Boston, Mass., in 1853. She was a wooden schooner-rigged vessel 

 and represents the extreme ideas of New England builders of that 

 date as applied to small seagoing clippers. Her chief characteristics 

 were a considerable depth and beam for her length ; raking stem, giv- 

 ing a moderate overhang to the bow ; round stern ; and lines moder- 

 ately easy, but generally convex. Pilot boats of this type were very 

 seaworthy and swift. Old pilots claim that modern-built boats are 

 not more comfortable in a gale, though much larger. 



She had a sharp bow with straight or convex lines ; high floor ; lean 

 run ; round stern ; very little overhang to counter ; comparatively little 

 sheer ; raking curved stem. 



Dimensions of vessel. — ^Length over all, 68 feet; beam, 20 feet; 

 depth, 9 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of D. J. Lawlor. Cat. No. 76,032 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of pilot boat. 



The Boston pilot boat, Edwin Forrest, was built at Boston from this 

 model in 1865. She attained considerable celebrity for speed and 

 stability. After being in the pilot service off Boston for many years 

 she was sold to Pensacola, Fla., where she was employed as a pilot 

 boat in 1885. She was designed by D. J. Lawlor, and is a wooden, 

 schooner- rigged vessel of the highest specialized type of the date when 

 she was built. 



The Forrest had a long, sharp bow, wave-shaped at and below 

 water line ; high concave floor ; long, lean run ; rather light V-shaped 

 stern; fine sheer; nearly straight vertical stem above water, curved 

 at forefoot. Mounted, with stem, keel, and rudder attached. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 69 feet ; beam, 18 feet 6 

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

 Gift of D. J. Lawlor. Cat. No. 76,047 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of pilot boat. 



The wooden pilot schooner Florence, of Boston, Mass., was built 

 from this model at that city in 1867. She was designed by D. J. 

 Lawlor and represents the highest development in New England 

 pilot boats of that period, and illustrates further the influence upon 

 the design of the shallow American yacht then in favor. She sailed 

 well in ordinary weather, but was not so powerful in a gale as the 

 deeper pilot boats. 



This boat had a long, sharp bow; high rising floor; lean run; 

 raking V-shaped stern ; stem curved at forefoot, straight and raking 



