168 BULLETIN^ 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



This is a clipper model, with long sharp bow, slightly concave at 

 water line ; long floor, merging into a long, clean, and finely cut run ; 

 elliptical, slightly overhanging stern; broad beam. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 74 feet; beam, 20 feet; 

 extreme draft, 8 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



This model represents the extreme clipper fishing schooner of 

 moderate dimensions at the date when she was built. She ran on 

 shore in December, 1878, while attempting to enter Cape Negro 

 harbor. Nova Scotia, and two of her crew were drowned. 



Cat. No. 57,052 U.aN.M. 



Block model of market-fishing schooner. 



The extreme clipper fishing schooner, David F. Low^ of Gloucester, 

 Mass., was built from this model at that port in 1872, for employ- 

 ment in the deep sea market and mackerel fisheries. She illustrates 

 the highest attainment of that date in designing swift schooners for 

 the ocean fisheries — especially the market and mackerel fisheries — 

 and is an excellent typical representative of the shallow, sharp, 

 broad sterned vessels which proved so unsafe in heavy gales, and of 

 which many were lost by foundering — going down at sea with all 

 hands. 



The vessel was a wooden, carvel-built one, with long, sharp bow ; 

 lines moderately concave at and below water line; raking stem; 

 long head; sharp, slightly hollow floor; quick turn to bilge; long 

 run with hollow abrupt lines below water, strongly convex water 

 line; overhanging, heavy, wide, elliptical stern; deep keel; graceful 

 sheer. She had a long, low quarter-deck; she carried a heavy rig, 

 and was equipped in the usual style of fishing schooners of that 

 period. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 79 feet 6 inches; tonnage 

 length, 74 feet; beam, 21 feet; depth, 7 feet; net tonnage, 57.73. 

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



The David F. Loio was one of the most extreme sharp vessels of 

 the period when she was built, but, nevertheless, was not remarkably 

 swift. She sat low in the water and her heavy quarters and big 

 stern doubtless prevented her from attaining the speed which her 

 easy entrance might promise. 

 Gift of Captain E.-L. Rowe. ^ Cat. No. 1G0,111 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner. 



This model represents the moderately sharp type of wooden sea- 

 going fishing vessel built from 1867 to 1877. More than 30 schooners 

 were built from this model; among them the Howard^ in 1874, en- 

 gaged in fishing from Gloucester; the Carrie Louise^ Cunard^ Ed- 

 loard Grover^ Aberdeen^ and Nathaniel Webster. 



