CATALOGUE OF THE WATEECRAFT COLLECTIOX. 127 



" In the early days of navigation these masts carried lateen sails, 

 but in the last (eighteenth) century the larger mast had the sails 

 of the foremast of a ship and the smaller was rigged like the mizzen- 

 mast of a bark of the present day. This vessel seems to have been a 

 favorite with our New England ancestors. One of only 16 tons bur- 

 den cleared from Boston for Virginia in 1661. In 1670 the shipping 

 of a distinguished Boston merchant consisted almost entirely of ves- 

 sels of this class." ^* 



The model made by Captain Chester is distinctly of Dutch origin. 

 In the early colonial days the influence of Dutch builders was 

 strongly felt in England and America. 

 Gift of Capt. H. C. Chester. Cat. No. 57,014 U.S.N.M. 



Model of old-style fishing schooner, 



A type of fishing schooner extensively employed in the Grand 

 Bank codfishery from Marblehead, Mass., during the eighteenth 



FIG. 23. SCHOO.NER, M.VKELEHEAD^ MASS. 



century and to a less extent in the early part of the nineteenth 

 century. Vessels of a similar type were also employed in fishing 

 from Gloucester and Plymouth, Mass. 



This was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with full, round bow 

 and curved stem; with gammon knee at top of stem; long straight 

 side ; long floor ; low, full, round bilge ; short, full run ; large square 

 stern; high quarter-deck; old-style wooden windlass (worked with 



"* Babson's History of Gloucester. 



