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the United States Bureau of Fisheries. No vessel was built from it, 

 the commissioner having subsequently decided to have a larger 

 schooner. It embodies, however, the ideas then held by the designer 

 for improving fishing schooners by increasing their depth and 

 thereby making them safer. 



The model was intended for the production of a wooden, carvel- 

 built, keel welled smack, with long, sharp bow; moderately concave 

 at and below water line ; raking, curved stem ; long head ; sharp and 

 very slightly hollow floor; long, lean run, with abruptly curved 

 wave lines below, and strongly convex water line; overhanging 

 strongly raking elliptical stern, which is nearly V-shaped; good 

 sheer; long, quarter-deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 65 feet; beam, 15 feet 6 

 inches ; depth, 8 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



Cat. No. 160,116 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of welled fishing schooner. 



This model was made in 1883 from a design of United States 

 Naval Constructor S. H. Pook for a welled fishing schooner for the 

 United States Fish Commission. No vessel was built from it. 



The model calls for a sharp bow with wave lines under water; 

 sharp hollow floor; long, lean, fine run; overhanging and strongly 

 raking elliptical stern; graceful sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 78 feet ; beam, extreme, 

 18 feet; depth of hold, 8 feet; extreme draft, 10 feet. Scale of 

 model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



This model was based on dimensions submitted by Capt. J. W. 

 Collins, and the design was a distinctive improvement in some 

 respects on fishing vessels built at and previous to the date when 

 it was made. This is particularly noticeable in the after section, 

 but the bow is rather too full for high speed — a very requisite 

 qualification in a fishing boat. Cat. No. 160,114 U.S.N.M, 



Block model of schooner. 



A clipper schooner of about 90 to 100 tons register, designed by 

 Capt. J. W. Collins especially for the offshore bank fisheries. 



This was a wooden carvel-built, keel schooner with long, sharp 

 bow; deep body; more than average dead rise; long, lean run; 

 elliptical, overhanging stem, slanting upward from the lower center 

 to the corners ; fine sheer ; long quarter-deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 85 feet; keel, 69 feet; 

 beam, 21 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 10 feet; draft, extreme, 10 

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



A vessel built from this model would be about 2 feet deeper than 

 the typical American fishing schooner of that date and about 1 foot 



