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held that it would be unsafe to have a vessel sharp on the rail. It 

 was thought that with a strong flare above water, and a full round 

 bow at the rail, a vessel would be safer and not so liable to plunge 

 heavily into a sea. Consequently, fishing schooners were often built 

 that way; the Elisha Holmes is a good example. 



This was a carvel-built, wooden, keel vessel ; bow flaring, full and 

 round on top, convexly sharper below; curved raking stem; long 

 head; long straight sides; comparatively narrow beam: low bilge, 



FIG. 35. NEW ENGLAND SCHOONER " ELISHA HOLMES." 



short floor; long, but rather full run; broad square stern. Rigged 

 as a two-masted schooner with a single topmast, carrying jib, fore- 

 sail, mainsail, and main staysail. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 67 feet; on lower water 

 line, 64 feet; beam, 18 feet; depth of hold, 7 feet 6 inches; extreme 

 draft, 9 feet 6 inches; bowsprit, extreme length, 32 feet; foremast, 

 above deck, 60 feet; mainmast, above deck, 61 feet; foreboom, 21 

 feet; foregaff, 20 feet; main boom, 44 feet; main gaff, 21 feet. Scale 

 of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



Vessels of this class were employed chiefly in the codfishery on 

 (xeorges Bank, and in the summer mackerel fisher3\ 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,247 U.S.N.M. 



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