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The Coolidge was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel of the clipper 

 type prevailing at the time she was built. She had a moderately 

 sharp flaring bow ; long floor ; run of medium length and rather full ; 

 square stern ; graceful sheer ; long, low quarter deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — ^Length between perpendiculars, 65 feet 6 

 inches; beam, 19 feet 11 inches: depth, 6 feet 11 inches; tonnage, 

 52.75. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. 



This vessel was built chiefly for prosecuting the codfishery in the 

 Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy. She was also employed in the 

 Grand Bank codfishery, and for nine years during the spring months 

 engaged in the herring fishery at the Magdalen Islands, bringing 

 thence cargoes of salted herring to Maine ports. 

 Gift of Newell B. Coolidge. Cat. No. 76,297 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooners. 



The clipper schooners George Fogg and Etta G. Fogg, of Well- 

 fleet, Mass., were built from this model at Essex, Mass., in 1857. 

 They were employed in the mackerel fishery in the summer and 

 oyster trade in the winter, and were the extreme clipper build of 

 1857 and far in advance of most of the vessels of that period. The 

 oyster trade demanded fast sailers and also vessels of light draft 

 to permit their entering the bays and rivers to the oyster grounds. 



These vessels were clipper built, with sharp bow ; long floor ; long 

 run, but not so lean as clipper vessels of more recent build ; elliptical 

 stern; broad beam; comparatively light draft of water. 



Dimensions of vessel. — ^Length over all, 94 feet; beam, 23 feet; 

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

 foot. 

 Gift of Charles O. Story. Cat. No. 51,448 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



The schooner Lookout., of Gloucester, Mass., was built from this 

 model at Essex, Mass., in 1857. Twenty or more fishing vessels were 

 built from the same model prior to 1865, among them the E. K. 

 Kane, Fish Hawk, Laughing Water, and Arizona. The last two 

 vessels were employed in the Gloucester fisheries in 1882. The 

 schooner built from this design was preferred for fishing on Georges 

 Bank from 1857 to 1866. They were rather full-bodied vessels as 

 compared with those built at a later date. 



This vessel was built with a rather short but moderately sharp 

 and slightly flaring bow; low full bilge; medium length of run; 

 square stem with slight overhang. 



Dimensions of vessel. — ^Length over all, 68 feet; beam, 19 feet 6 

 inches; draft of water aft, 9 feet. Scale, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of Charles O. Story. Cat. No. 54,473 U.S.N.M. 



