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easily in a match race with the Boston pilot boat Hesper. She was 

 thoroughly tested in the fisheries and proved preeminently swift and 

 seaworthy. On several occasions she made successful passages against 

 heavy northwest gales in winter, even though weighted down with 

 ice — conditions which compelled shallow fishing schooners to heave 

 to and drift to leeward. A large number of vessels have been built 

 from her lines or on lines closely approximating thereto. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,253 U.S.N.M. 



Model of market-fishing schooner. 



This model was made from a design by Capt. J. W. Collins for a 

 swift market fishing schooner, embodying the most advanced ideas 

 in. form and rig. In the market fishery of New England, New York, 

 the South Atlantic, and Gulf States, the fish are taken to port in a 

 fresh condition. It is therefore important that sailing vessels en- 

 gaging in this fishery should have a maximum of speed and sea- 

 worthiness. A consideration of these requirements resulted in pro- 

 ducing this design as an ideal seagoing fishing schooner of moderate 

 dimensions. 



The model represents a carvel-built, keel vessel, with long, sharp 

 bow ; raking stem ; gammon knee head ; shallow forefoot ; keel much 

 deeper in after section than forward and " rockered " forward and 

 aft; sharp floor; long, easy, symmetrical run; overhanging V-shaped 

 narrow stern (the stem rakes strongly) ; good sheer; deck arrange- 

 ments of cabin trunk, hatches, etc., on the plan ordinarily adopted on 

 fishing vessels. The rig is that adopted on fishing vessels and 

 schooner yachts. A round, short bowsprit ; short foremast and fore- 

 topmast; long mainmast and main topmast — the mainmast stepped 

 nearly in the center between bow and stern — are the principal fea- 

 tures of the spar plan. Carries jib topsail; fore staysail; foresail; 

 fore gaff-topsail ; mainsail ; main gaff-topsail ; and main staysail. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 84 feet; on load water 

 line, 66 feet ; beam, 20 feet 3 inches ; extreme draft, 10 feet 3 inches ; 

 bowsprit, outside, 24 feet; foremast, above deck, 50 feet; foretop- 

 mast, heel to truck, 30 feet; foreboom, 20 feet; foregaff, 22 feet; 

 mainmast, above deck, 58 feet; main topmast, heel to truck, 34 feet; 

 main boom, 55 feet; main gaff, 38 feet 6 inches; length of fore cross- 

 tree, 11 feet; main crosstree, 13 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch 

 equals 1 foot. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,252 U.S.N.M. 



Model of fishing schooner. 



The schooner, John J. Flaherty, of Gloucester, Mass., was built 

 at Essex. Mass., in 1S99 for Grand Bank codfishing in summer and 

 in the winter frozen herring trade. The model represents a fast and 



