138 BULLETIN 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Model of fishing schooner. 



The fishing schooner Dauntless Avas built at Essex, Mass., about 

 1855. She was a wooden, carvel-built vessel of the early clipper type ; 

 with bow strongly flaring; full and round at rail; convexly sharper 

 at and below water line; raking stem; long head; rising floor; quick 

 turn to bilge; long easy run; large, square stern; strong drag; rather 

 straight on top; low quarter-deck; masts rake strongly; dories 

 stowed bottom up on deck and lashed ; riding sail on davit plank. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 70 feet; water line, 66 

 feet; beam, 17 feet 6 inches; bowsprit, 30 feet; flying jib boom, 32 

 feet; foremast, above deck, 54 feet; foreboom, 24 feet, mainmast, 

 above deck, 56 feet; topmast, 29 feet; main boom, 42 feet; main gaff, 

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



The vessel is represented as she might appear in making a passage 

 to the banks on a trawling trip. All sails are set as follows : flying 

 jib, jib, foresail, mainsail, main staysail, and main gaff-topsail. This 

 model is an excellent representation of the early type of clipper 

 fishing schooners built at Essex, at the time it was thought necessary 

 to give them an excessive flare to the bow to prevent them from 

 pitching heavily in a seaway. 



The Dauntless was lost in 1870, with her crew of 12 men, while 

 making a j)assage from home to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 Deposited by Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,244 U.S.N.M. 



Model of fishing schooner. 



The schooner, Etta G. Fogg, was built at Essex, Mass., in 1857, 

 for employment in the summer mackerel fishery and for freighting 

 oysters in winter from Chesapeake Bay to New England. In form 

 and rig she represents the highest attainment in designing clipper 

 fishing vessels at the period when she was built, at which time she 

 was one of the largest schooners employed in the food fisheries from 

 New England. 



The Etta G. Fogg was a carvel-built, wooden, keel vessel, with 

 sharp bow; moderate rise to floor; long, lean run; broad square 

 stern; raking stem; long head; good sheer; long, low quarter-deck; 

 cabin trunk aft; forecastle companionway forward — aft of fore- 

 mast — ^liatches, pumps, fitted with bait boxes, etc., to show the 

 position of these for use in the mackerel hook-and-line fishery. 

 Rigged as a two-topmast schooner, and carrying mainsail, foresail, 

 jib, flying jib, jib-headed foregaff- topsail, jib-headed main gaff- 

 topsail and main staysail. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 94 feet; beam, 23 feet; 

 depth of hold, 9 feet 6 inches; bowsprit, extreme length, 36 feet; 

 jib boom, outside cap, 17 feet; foremast, above deck, 67 feet 6 



