140 BULLETIN 127, UTSTITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Model of fishing- schooner. 



The schooner, Flying Fish., built at Essex, Mass., was designed 

 primarily for employment in the mackerel hook-and-line fishery, in 

 Avhich she engaged for several years from Gloucester, JNIass. Sub- 

 sequently she was sold to New London, Conn., after which she par- 

 ticipated in the Antarctic fur-seal and sea-elephant fisheries. . 



The vessel was a wooden, carvel-built, two-masted, keel schooner, 

 with moderately sharp bow; raking stem; long head; rising floor; 

 long, sharp run; straight, nearly vertical sternpost; elliptical stern; 

 moderate sheer; long, low quarter-deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 74 feet; beam, 21 feet; 

 depth of hold, 7 feet; draft extreme, 9 feet 6 inches. (For dimen- 

 sions of spars, see label on sail plan.) Scale of model, 2 inches equal 

 1 foot. 



The Flying Fish was among the swiftest vessels of her class at the 

 time when she was built. Her speed was probably due in a consid- 

 erable degree to the lai'ge area of canvas which she carried. 

 Made in fhe :Museum. Cat. Xo. 160,411 U.S.X.M. 



Model of market-fishing schooner. 



The schooner Mary O^Dell was built at Bath, Me., in 1872, for the 

 New England market fishery, in which she was employed from 

 Gloucester, Mass., for a number of years. She had a long, sharp 

 bow; raking stem; long head, sharp, slightly hollow floor; long, 

 strongly concaved run; heavy elliptical stern: long quarter-deck; 

 fair sheer; rigged complete- with all sails (mainsail, foresail, jib, 

 flying jib, staysail, and gaff-topsail) set. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length between perpendiculars, 71 feet; 

 beam, 20 feet ; depth, 7 feet ; net tonnage, 46.05 ; bowsprit, outboard, 

 18 feet 9 inches; jib boom, cap to end, 12 feet 6 inches; foremast, 

 above deck, 65 feet; mainmast, 66 feet; main topnuist, 31 feet 10 

 inches; fore boom, 24 feet 4 inches; main boom, 58 feet 9 inches. 

 Scale of model, two-fifths inch equals 1 foot. 



This model is representative of a class of vessels employed in the 

 mackerel fishery in summer and in the cod and haddock fisheries in 

 winter ; carrying their fish, as a rule, to market in a fresh condition. 

 These schooners vary from 35 to 75 tons, and are specially designed 

 for speed and for ability to carry a large amount of canvas. 



The Mary OWell., after following the New England market fish- 

 ery for some years, was sold to Savannah, Ga., from Avhich port she 

 was cmplovecl in fishing for the market. 



Cat. No. 39,337 U.S.N.M. 



Model of seining schooner. 



The schooner Mary Fcrnald., of Gloucester, Mass., was built at 

 that port in 1875, for employment in the sununer mackerel fishery 



