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BULLETIN 127, U:NITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The Resolute is a carvel-built, -wooden, keel vessel, with sharp bow : 

 straight and nearly vertical stem above water, curved below; rising 

 floor; easy run; square V-shaped overhanging stern; flush deck; 

 fitted with beam trawl and appliances for operating it. Ketch 

 rigged, with long bowsprit; mainmast, mizzenmast, etc. The rig 

 differs in some details from the North Sea trawlers, but chiefly be- 

 cause the bowsprit is stationary' instead of being fitted to run in or 

 out. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 90 feet; beam, 22 feet; 

 depth of hold, 9.6 feet; net tonnage, 90.52; bowsprit, outside knight- 



-NE^^ EXGLAXD KETCH " RESOLUTE. 



lieads, 39 feet ; mainmast, above deck, G6 feet ; main to})mast, 39 feet 

 6 inches; main boom, 41 feet 6 inches; main gaff, 39 feet; mizzen- 

 mast, above deck, 52 feet ; spanker boom, 30 feet ; spanker gaff, 22 

 feet; main gaff-topsail 3'ard, 13 feet 6 inches; mizzen gaff-topsail 

 yard, 10 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Resolute made a number of trips beam-trawling during the 

 winter of 1891-92. She was unsuccessful and abandoned that fishery. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,263 U.S.N.M. 



Model of smack. 



This model of the schooner smack Storm King^ of Boston, Mass., 

 represents the class of small welled vessels employed in transporting 



