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Single-screw propeller; one mast fitted with stationary gaff for 

 hoisting cargo or for sail; sharp bow and floor; easy run; round 

 stern ; engine and wheel houses on deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 61 feet; beam, 11-J feet; 

 smokestack, 12 feet above rail; diameter of screw, 4^ feet; length 

 of mast, 34 feet; gaff, 15 J feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 

 1 foot. Cat. No. 55,812 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of fishing steamer. 



From this model the schooner-rigged screw steamer Novelty was 

 built at Kennebunkport, Me., in 1885 from designs by Capt. H. B. 

 Joyce. She was specially designed for the mackerel purse seine 

 fisherj' , and at first carried a " double gang " crew of about 40 men, 

 and was equipped with four seine boats and two purse seines, both of 

 which could be operated at the same time. 



The vessel was a single-screw propeller; she was carvel-built of 

 wood — chiefly of oak and yellow pine — with long sharp bow; stem 

 straight and nearly vertical above water, curved below ; moderately 

 sharp floor; shallow keel; long, easy run; round stern and good 

 sheer. On the after section of the deck were deck houses over the 

 boilers and engines. She was rigged as a two-masted schooner with- 

 out a bowsprit, the jib stay setting up at the stem head. The main- 

 mast was placed well aft. She was fitted to carry a beam and gaff 

 mainsail, a loose-footed gaff foresail, and jib. 



The Novelty was employed in the summer mackerel fishery until 

 November, 1889. In December, 1889, she was purchased by agents 

 of Hippolyte, of the revolutionary party, at Santo Domingo, West 

 Indies, and her name changed to Jacmel. She was used as a gun- 

 boat very effectively during the revolution, and was the principal 

 factor in securing the success of the revolutionists, her superior 

 speed requiring the constant exertions of the Haitian Navy of 

 Legitime to protect Port au Prince and other places from her at- 

 tacks, and leaving the northern ports of the revolutionists free 

 from blockade. 



After the termination of the struggle she was thoroughly over- 

 hauled and refitted at Philadelphia, and soon after returning to 

 Haiti, was sunk in collision with one of the captured fleet of 

 Legitime (the Dessalines) in 1891. 

 Gift of Capt. H. B. Joyce. Cat. No. 76,286 U.S.N.M. 



Model of seine steamer. 



This vessel was built at Essex, Mass., and was the first steam fish- 

 ing vessel built in the United States for the Grand Banks fishery. 

 It resembles a modern ocean-going tug, but is without guards, and was 

 especially equipped for mackerel seine fishing in which employment 

 she was very successful. 



