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sea fisheries. Several otlier schooners were buih from tlie same 

 model. 



The Wonson was a wooden, carvel-built, clipper, keel schooner, 

 with rather long sharp bow, veiy slightly concave at and below water 

 line; raking stem; long head; rising floor; quick turn to bilge; long 

 easy run; broad elliptical stern; graceful sheer; long quarter-deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, 76 feet 6 inches; beam. 20 feet 6 

 inches; depth, 6 feet 9 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 

 1 foot. 



This vessel was at first employed in the summer mackerel and win- 

 ter halibut fisheries under the command of Capt. Joseph W. Collins. 

 She was an exceptionally swift vessel at the time she was built and 

 sailed especially well to windward. She was exposed to several 

 severe gales, through which she passed in safety, but was finally lost 

 at sea. She was one of the best clipper fishing schooners of the 

 period. Cat." No. 76,477 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



The fishing schooner M. E. Torry was built from this model at 

 Sedgewick, Me., in 1870. She was originally designed for the mack- 

 erel fishery, in which she was employed for several seasons. In 

 1887 she engaged in the Grand Bank codfishery, but was lost on her 

 return trip in the autumn of that year. 



The Torry resembled the Essex-built fishing schooners of the same 

 period. She was a wooden, carvel-built, schooner rigged, keel ves- 

 sel, rather wide and shallow, with wide square stern and sharp bow. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, 71 feet 9| inches; beam, 21 feet 6 

 inches; depth, 7 feet 2-^^ inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 

 1 foot. 

 Gift of Robert Dority. Cat. Xo. 76,299 L\S.X.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



The two-masted schooner Harvest Home was built from this model 

 for the Grand Bank codfishery at Lamoine, Me., in 1870. 



The Harvest Home was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with 

 sharp bow ; rising floor ; good run ; wide, elliptical stern. 



Diinensions of vessel. — Tonnage length, 78 feet; beam. 22 feet 7 

 inches; depth. 7 feet 7 inches; gross tonnage, 78.28. Scale of model, 

 1 inch equals 1 foot. • 



Gift of Xewall B. Coolidge & Bros. Cat. No. 76,287 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of market-fishing schooner. 



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

 model about 1872. She was designed chiefly for the market fishery, 

 but also represents a numerous class of schooners built about the 

 same date for the Georges codfisherv and the mackerel fishery. 



