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BULLETIN 127, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The Fredonia is a carvel-built, wooden keel vessel, with long sharp 

 bow ; raking stem, small gammon knee head ; deep keel ; sharp floor ; 

 long fine run; narrow, overhanging, V-shaped, strongly raking 

 stern ; raking sternpost ; good sheer ; low quarter-deck extending for- 

 ward of mainmast; cabin trunk aft; forecastle companionway; 

 hatches on deck, etc. Rigged as a two-topmast schooner, with (com- 

 paratively small) round bowsprit; short foremast and foretopmast; 

 long mainmast and main topmast ; sails peak more sharply than an 

 old-style fishing vessel. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 112 feet 9 inches; beam, 

 23.6 feet ; depth, 10.3 feet ; net tonnage, 109.44 ; bowsprit, outside, 36 



FIG. 41. NEW EXGLAXD SCHOONER " FREDONIA.' 



feet 9 inches; foremast, above deck, 60 feet 9 inches; foretopmast, 

 heel to truck, 34 feet; foreboom, 29 feet; mainmast, above deck, 70 

 feet 3 inches; main topmast, 41 feet; main boom, 68 feet 6 inches; 

 main gaff, 38 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Fredonia has embodied in her design the best results obtained 

 by Mr. Burgess in yacht designing in previous years, during which 

 he produced the famous and successful cup defenders Puritan, May- 

 floioer, and Volunteer. 



For some months after she was built the Fredonia was temporarily 

 fitted up and used as a yacht, in which capacity she made a cruise 

 across the Atlantic and participated in several races at home. Al- 

 though at a disadvantage in having inside ballast and being without 

 racing sails, she made a good record. Some two vears later she won 



