CATALOGUE OF THE WATERCEAFT COLLECTION, 



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Model of old-style fishing- schooner. 



This class of vessels was extensively employed in the Grand Bank 

 codfishery during the eighteenth century, and. to a less extent, in the 

 early part of the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the War 

 of the Eevolution, Marblehead alone had a fleet of more than 170 

 vessels. Many of them had higher and shorter quarter-decks, and 

 no bulwarks on the main deck. In all cases the crew fished from 

 the deck with handlines. 



These vessels had a full round bow, curved stem, and gammon- 

 knee cutwater; long, straight side; long floor; low, full round bilge: 



FIG. 31. GKANU BANKS CODFISHING SCHOONER '•' OPEN SEA.'' 



short full run; large square stern; high quarter-deck extending 

 nearly to mainmast; old style windlass (worked with handspikes), 

 cables, anchors; four fish kids (two on each side) on main deck; 

 scaffold crutch for foreboom; steps on each side of quarter-deck; 

 two pumps ; square stern yawl boat turned bottom up and lashed on 

 top of davits. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 65 feet; beam, 18 feet; 

 extreme draft, 8 feet ; bowspirit, outboard, 15 feet 6 inches ; foremast, 

 above deck, 43 feet 6 inches ; mainmast, above deck, 45 feet 6 inches ; 

 iftain topmast, 21 feet 6 inches ; foreboom, 22 feet ; f oregaff , 21 feet ; 

 main boom, 38 feet; main gaff, 24 feet. Scale of model, one-half 

 inch equals 1 foot. 



