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Diviensions of canoe. — Length over all, 9 feet; beam, 26 inches; 

 depth, 6 J inches ; small paddle, 17 inches long, blade 3 inches wide ; 

 double (jointed) paddle, 6 feet 1 inch. 



Cat. No. 160,315 U.S.N.M. 



FISHING VESSELS. 



STEAMERS. 



Model of whaling steamer. 



The bark-rigged auxiliary screw steamer Orca., of which this is a 

 miniature, was built at San Francisco, Cal., in 1882 for employ- 

 ment in the whale fishery of the Pacific and Arctic oceans. 



A wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel; with moderately sharp bow; 

 raking stem ; long head ; rather low floor ; full midship section ; fine 

 run and overhanging round stern; provided with a two-bladed 

 propeller so that it can be turned on a line with the sternpost and 

 rudder. Model fitted with deck house ; steam windlass for handling 

 anchors and for hoisting in blubber, etc. ; pilot house on forward end 

 of poop, and wheelhouse at the stern; cabin house flush with quarter 

 rail; open rail around it; two boats on forward house. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length between perpendiculars, 177 feet; 

 beam, 32 feet 6 inches; depth, 18 feet 11 inches; net tonnage, 462.39. 

 Bowsprit, outside, 28 feet; foremast, above deck, 51 feet; fore- 

 topmast, 40 feet ; fore-topgallant and royal masts, 42 feet ; f oreyard, 

 59 feet 9 inches; lower ' fore-topsail yard, 51 feet 6 inches; upper 

 fore-topsail yard. 49 feet 9 inches; fore-topgallant yard, 40 feet; 

 foreroyal yard, 31 feet; mainmast, above deck, 52 feet 3 inches; 

 main topmast, 40 feet; main topgallant and royal masts, 42 feet; 

 main yard, 62 feet; lower main topsail yard, 51 feet 9 inches; upper 

 main topsail yard, 50 feet 6 inches; main topgallant yard, 41 feet; 

 main royal yard, 31 feet 6 inches; mizzenmast, above deck, 47 feet; 

 mizzen topmast, 48 feet 9 inches; spanker boom, 38 feet; spanker 

 gaff, 27 feet; smokestack above deck, 16 feet 6 inches. Nominal 

 horsepower, 280. Scale of moled, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Orca was the largest vessel of her class in the United States. 

 She was sheathed from the bilge to above the waterline with an 

 extra thickness of heavy planking, and covered around the stem 

 with thick metal and was otherwise specially fitted and strengthened 

 for encountering the ice floes which were met with when hunting 

 whales in Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. She carried seven 

 boats on her cranes and was called a " 7-boat ship." She had a 

 full bark rig and cruised under sail when steam was not required. 

 She was fitted with a steam digester for drying out oil. 



She was one of a number of bark-rigged whaling steamers built 

 in the latter part of the nineteenth century with special reference 

 to the pursuit of whales among the ice floes of Bering Sea and the 



