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liand spikes) ; hemi^ cables; anchors; four fish kids on main deck; 

 steps on each side of quarter-deck; two wooden pumps; yawl boat. 

 Rigged as two-masted schooner with long bowsprit and short masts; 

 -ails furled. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all. 52 feet ; on water line, 47 

 feet; beam, 15 feet: depth of hold. 7 feet 6 inches; bowsprit outside 

 of knightheads. 19 feet; total length. 25 feet; foremast, above deck, 

 33 feet; mainmast, above deck. 3-1 feet; main topmast, heel to truck, 

 22 feet; mainboom. 32 feet; maingaff, 16 feet 6 inches; foreboom, 

 22 feet ; foregaff. 10 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 

 1 foot. 



This model may be taken as fairly typical of the original schooner 

 built by Captain Robinson for the Bank codfishery at Gloucester, 

 Mass., in 1713. Vessels of this class usually ranged from 40 to 80 

 tons, old measurement (equal to 25 to 55 tons, new measurement). 

 Tliey had high quarter-decks, and, because of this feature, at a later 

 date were known as " heel tapers." Often they had no bulwarks 

 around the main deck, and in rough weather the men were com- 

 pelled to stand on the quarter-deck to fish. In all cases the crew 

 fished with hand lines from the deck. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. Xo. 76,243 U.S.N.M. 



Model of standing-room Chebacco boat. 



The class of small sharp stern vessels represented by this model 

 was extensively used by the Xew England fishermen in the latter 

 part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth 

 century. They Avere often built by the fishermen who sailed them. 



The Lion was about 10 tons ; had a full round bow ; narrow beam ; 

 sharp stern ; three standing rooms in which the men stood to fish ; two 

 hatchways; no bowsprit; two masts, the foremast well forward, 

 mainmast near the middle. Two boom and gaff sails. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 34 feet; beam, 9 feet 6 

 inches; depth of hold, 4 feet 6 inches; length of foremast (above 

 deck), 23 feet; mainmast, 23^ feet; foreboom, 12 feet; mainboom, 

 18 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



Vessels of this class ranged from 5 to 18 tons, old measurement. 

 The smaller usually had no bulwarks, and were provided Avith open 

 s])aces or standing rooms, in which the men stood while fishing, and 

 the after one of which also served as a cockpit for the steersman. 

 The floors of these standing , rooms were only a little above the 

 keelson. In rough weather they were covered with hatches. The 

 largest Chebacco boats were decked and had no standing rooms. 

 A characteristic feature of this type was a high stem generally 

 painted red, around which the eye of the mooring hawser was put 



