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and main booms, each 23 feet 8 inches; fore and main gaff, each 23 

 feet 6 inches; spanker boom, 53 feet 3 inches; spanker gaff, 29 feet 

 9 inches; yawl boat, 17 feet 6 inches long, 5 feet wide and 3 feet 

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



The model was made by Mr. Thomas A. Irving, of Gloucester, 

 as an ideal three-masted fishing schooner, and it was named from 

 the schooner, Lizzie ^V. Mat he son. though it differs considerably 

 from that vessel in the shape of its hull. At the International 

 Fisheries Exposition in London, 1883, it was awarded a gold medal. 



Cat. Xo. 160,211 U.S.N.M. 



Model of fishing schooner. 



The schooner, James A. Gar-field^ was built at Bath, Me., in 1881, 

 to engage in the codfishery on Georges Bank, from Gloucester, 

 Mass. Vessels of this class, employed in the Georges hand line cod- 

 fishery, are fitted with gurry pens on deck; softwood fishing rails; 

 stern dory, etc. She was a clipper, keel schooner, with sharp bow; 

 curved raking stem ; long head : moderate rise to floor ; long, hollow 

 run; heavy flat counters; large elliptical stern; fair sheer; long, 

 low quarter-deck; all sails set. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length between perpendiculars, 74 feet; 

 beam 22 feet; depth 8 feet; net tonnage, 69.90; bowsprit, outboard, 

 19 feet; foremast, above deck, 60 feet; mainmast, above deck, 60 

 feet 6 inches; main topmast, 33 feet; foreboom, 23 feet 6 inches; 

 main boom, 60 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The model represents a clipper schooner of about 70 tons register 

 in ordinary rig, such as many of this class carry all the year, though 

 in winter some vessels have no main topmast. All sails (mainsail, 

 foresail, jib, main staysail, and gaff topsail) are set, and the riding 

 sail lashed to davit plank, as is usually the case when these vessels 

 are making a passage to or from the Banks. When at anchor on the 

 Bank only the riding sail is set ; this is triangular in shape and is 

 bent to the mainmast by adjustable hoops. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 56,938 U.S.N.M. 



Model of fishing schooner. 



This is a type of fishing schooner designed for the Atlantic deep- 

 sea food-fish fisheries by Edward Burgess, of Boston, Mass. She 

 was built at Essex, Mass., in 1889 and represents the extreme clipper 

 fishing schooner of that period, as well as the highest attainment in 

 designing vessels for the ocean fisheries. She differs from the sharp, 

 shallow, broad sterned New England fishing schooner in vogue from 

 1865 to 1886, chiefly in having greater depth, less beam, a narrow 

 V-shaped stern, finer and more symmetrical lines, and a different 

 arrangement of sails and spars. 



