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Block model of pinky schooner. 



The Trenton was built from this model about 1840, at Trenton, 

 Me., to engage in the cod fisheries in the Gulf of Maine and Bay 

 of Fundy, and was one of the last vessels of this type built in the 

 United States. She was a carvel-built, wooden-keel vessel with bow 

 full and strongly convex ; stem curved ; keel shallow ; floor low, long 

 and round ; run rather short and full ; sternpost raking ; stern sharp 

 and surmounted by projecting " pink;" sheer moderate. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, 47 feet; beam, 14 feet 2 inches; 

 depth, 6 feet 4 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of Gillman Hodgkins. Cat. No. 76,296 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



This model of a fishing schooner was made about 1840, and shows 

 the form of the square stern vessels of that period. It was one of 

 the first block models made at Essex, Mass. Previous to that time 

 fishing schooners were built " by the eye," without models, or " laid 

 down" from a skeleton model. It calls for a vessel having a full, 

 round bow; narrow beam; long, straight side; long, rounding 

 " kettle " bottom ; very short run ; square stern. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 60 feet; beam, 16 feet; 

 draft of water aft, 8 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch 

 equal 1 foot. 

 Gift of Jeremiah Burnham. Cat. No. 54,449 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



A schooner, name unknown, was built from this model at Essex, 

 Mass., about 1845, to engage in the Grand Bank codfishery from 

 Beverly, Mass. The model is typically representative of the Bev- 

 erly bankers of that time. They had moderately sharp bows for 

 the period and were well designed for riding at anchor, and for 

 seaworthiness, though they were slow sailers. 



This model has a fidl, strongh^ convex bow; long, straight of 

 breadth; rather narrow, low floor; full run of medium length; 

 square stern. 



Dimetisions of vessel. — Length over all, 64 feet; beam, 16 feet; 

 draft of water aft, 8 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 

 foot. Cat. No. 54,427 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of clipper schooner. 



The centerboard fishing schooner C. Chase was built from this 

 model at Baltimore in 1846 for individuals in Wellfleet, Mass. In 

 the decade between 1845 and 1855, when the New England fishing 

 fleet was undergoing a transition, and a strenuous effort was being 

 made to improve the vessels in the quality of speed, a considerable 



