164 BULLETIN 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEU3.1. 



Block model of schooner. 



The fishing schooner Galena of Gloucester, Mass., was built from 

 this model at Essex, Mass., 1863. The schooner Prince of Wales 

 was built from the same model in 1864. These were the largest ves- 

 sels then employed in the Atlantic food-fish fisheries. 



The Galena had a moderately sharp bow; full body, long run; 

 elliptical, slightly overhanging stern. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 89 feet; beam, 22 feet 

 6 inches; depth of hold, 8 feet 3 inches; draft of water aft, 10 feet. 

 Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Galena was employed for several years in the fisheries — 

 chiefly in the summer hook-and-line mackerel fishery — but was then 

 sold to California. The Prince of Wales^ after having been engaged 

 in fishing for a number of years, varied by freighting in winter, was 

 sold to Surinam, South America. Cat. No. 54,474 U. S. N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



A fishing schooner, name unknown, was built from this model in 

 1864. It was the extreme type of sharp schooner at that date, and, 

 in all essential details of form, continued a representative clipper 

 model until the radical changes in designing fishing craft occurred 

 after 1886. 



This vessel had a long, sharp bow ; broad beam ; long floor verging 

 into a long, lean run ; elliptical stern. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 68 feet; beam, 18 feet; 

 draft of water aft, 7 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch 

 equal 1 foot. 

 Gift of Joseph Story. Cat. No. 54,440 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



A keel fishing schooner, name unknown, was built from this model 

 at Baltimore about 1865. The model represents the most advanced 

 ideas of Baltimore builders in designing small clipper vessels at 

 that period. It closely resembles some of the Bahaman fishing 

 schooners, and was evidently a swift sailing vessel. 



She had a sharp bow; high, rising floor; long, lean run; light, 

 square stern; moderate drag; medium sheer; raking, curved stem; 

 nearly vertical sternpost. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 61 feet; beam, 18 feet; 

 depth, 7 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 (Jift of William Skinner & Sons. Cat. No. 76,101 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



The fishing schooner, Si/lph, of Boston, Mass., was built from this 

 model in 1865 at East Boston. She was the first vessel ever built 

 in the United States for a beam trawler. She was OAvned and manned 



