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sail lashed on davit plank, and dories inverted and lashed on checker 

 planks, as they usually are when the vessel is making a passage to or 

 from the Banks. 

 Lent by John Bishop. Cat. Xo. 56,939 U.S.N.M. 



Model of three-masted fishing schooner. 



Tliis is a type of fishing schooner of which several were built for 

 tlie Grand Bank codfishery between 1865 and 1885 ; one was designed 

 especially for the purse seine mackerel fishery but was subsequently 

 sold to Portugal. 



A wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with sharp bow ; raking stem ; 

 curved at forefoot; long head with fiddle head at end, and carved 



FIG. 40. XEW ENGLAND THREE-MASTED SCHOONER. 



and gilded vine on trail board : rising floor ; quick bilge : long, hollow, 

 lean run, with heavy flat quarters; straight nearly vertical sternpost; 

 wide elliptical stern; fine sheer; long, quarter-deck large cabin 

 trunk abaft mizzemnast; oil butts stowed on bilge forward of cabin; 

 equipped with wooden jump-brake windlass; anchors, chain and 

 rope cables ; forecastle companionway ; hatches ; wheel box : 20 dories 

 stowed in nests on deck ; yawl -i^oat at stern davits, etc. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 109 feet; beam, 26 feet; 

 depth of hold, 10 feet; draft of water aft, 11 feet; forward, 8 feet; 

 bowsprit, outboard, 22^ feet; jib boom, outside cap, 19 feet; foremast, 

 above deck, 70 feet 3 inches; foretopmast, heel to truck, 40 feet; 

 mizzenmast, above deck, 73 feet 3 inches ; mizzen topmast, 40 feet ; fore 



