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number of Baltimore-built schooners were employed, more especially 

 from Cape Cod ports, in the mackerel fishery in summer, and in 

 transporting oysters in winter from the Chesapeake Bay region to 

 New England. With few exceptions, these Baltimore vessels were 

 wide and shallow keel craft, with sharp floors and easy lines for- 

 ward and aft. for the period in Avhich they were built. They 

 usually were swift sailers in ordinary weather, and at one time were 

 in favor with the mackerel men. But they were poor sea boats, 

 and very wet and uncomfortable in a gale, consequently they soon 

 grew unpopular and were superseded by the stauneher Xew Eng- 

 land-built schooners. 



This vessel had a moderately full, convex bow ; raking, curved 

 stem; rather flat floor; round, easy bilge; long, lean run; light, 

 square stern; very little drag; rather straight on top. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length between uprights. 60 feet : beam, 

 20 feet; depth of hold, 5 feet 3 inches; tonnage. (50 tons, old measure- 

 ment. Scale of model, one-half inch e(iua]s 1 foot. 

 Gift of William Skinner & Sons. Cat. Xo. 76,098 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



The schooner /Susan Center was built from this model at Essex, 

 Mass., in 1847 and was employed from Gloucester in the cod and 

 mackerel fisheries for many years. She represents the type of 

 schooner built for the ocean fisheries of Xew England from 1845 to 

 1850. and which was characterized by a full bow, square stern, and 

 low quarter-deck. 



The Susan Centej' had a full round bow; straight side, long round- 

 ing bilge ; short full run ; square stern. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, 60 feet over all ; beam, 17 feet ; 

 draft of water aft, 9 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 

 foot. Cat. No. 54,457 U.S.X.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



The schooner David R. Proctov was built from this model in 1848 

 at Lamoine. Me., by the designer, Louis King. She was intended 

 for the Labrador codfishery, in which she engaged for several 

 seasons. 



The Proctor was a carvel-built, wooden, keel vessel of the blunt 

 bowed type in vogue between 1840 and 1850. Her bow was round 

 and full; stem curved; full short head; long, low round floor; rather 

 short run ; square stern. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 58 feet; beam, 16 feet 6 

 inches; depth, 7 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



Cat. Xo. 76,295 U.S.X.M. 



