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The Alice M. Jacohs is a wooden, carvel-built, screw steamer with 

 sharp bow ; curved slightl}- raking- stem ; rising floor ; fine run ; over- 

 hanging elliptical stern; good sheer; two-bladed propeller. Deck 

 house forward and funnel aft; boat hung from davits amidship on 

 port side. Rigged as a schooner with mainsail, foresail, and fore 

 sta3"sail. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, 142 feet; beam, 21 feet; depth, 14 

 feet; mainmast, 88 feet; foremast, 82 feet; main boom, 48 feet; main 

 gaif, 24 feet; foregail, 24 feet; speed of vessel, 10 knots an hour. 

 Scale of model, two inches equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of Capt. H. B. Joyce. Cat. No. 285,032 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of steam seine boat. 



This model was designed by Past Assistant Engineer George W, 

 Baird, United States Navy, for a small, shallow draft, side-wheel 

 steamer to be used in operating a drag seine for the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries at Havre de Grace, Mel., or elsewhere. The 

 steamer was not built. 



Dimensions of proposed vessel. — Length between perpendiculars, 

 66 feet; beam, 12 feet 6 inches; displacement, 20f tons. Two in- 

 dependent cylinder engines, 10 by 24 inches, indicated horsepower, 

 62. Diameter of wheels, 9 feet. Herreshoff patent boiler, size J. 

 Scale of model, one-half an inch equals 1 foot. 



Cat. No. 76,022 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of welled steam launch. 



This model was designed by J. W. Waters for a screw steamer 

 launch for the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the launch to 

 have a well for keeping fish alive. It was intended that the well 

 should Be placed forward. No launch was built. 



The vessel was to be a wooden, carvel-built, single screw steam 

 launch, with three open spaces covered with hoods ; long sharp bow ; 

 raking convexly curved stem ; rising floor ; long easy run ; overhang- 

 ing round stern; balance rudder; medium sheer. 



Dimensions of launch. — Length over all, 38 feet 6 inches; beam, 

 9 feet 3 inches; depth, 3 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, 1 inch equals 

 1 foot. 

 Gift of J. W. Waters. Cat. No. 160,103 U-S.N.M. 



SAILING VKSSELS. 



Model of seventeenth century snow. 



This represents a type of vessel called a " snow," which was ex- 

 tensively employed in the codfishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, 

 in the earliest days of that industry, and for nearly two hundred 

 years subsequently. The rig, from which the specific name was 

 derived, is now known as a square-rigged brig. This model also 



