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sailing schooners for the fisheries where the maximum of speed and 

 safety are required. It is typically representative of the extreme 

 clipper schooners of the smaller class (50 or 60 tons), built in the 

 last decade of the nineteenth century for prosecuting the market 

 fishery of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. 



The model calls for a long, sharp bow, slightly concave at water 

 line ; raking stem ; small gammon-knee head ; sharp floor ; easy turn 

 to bilge; long, lean, well-shaped run; narrow, overhanging, V- 

 shaped stern; deep rockered keel; good sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — ^Length over all, 84 feet; on load water 

 line, 66 feet; beam, 20 feet 3 inches; molded depth on midship sec- 

 tion, 10 feet 4 inches. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The special characteristics of the model are good depth, which 

 insures a low center of gravity with inside ballast of iron, easy 

 symmetrical lines that give speed, short rockered keel for quick 

 working, and a strong drag line which brings the center of lateral 

 resistance well aft and consequently requires less bowsprit and 

 head sails. Cat. No. 76,279 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of three-masted schooner. 



The schooner Lizzie IF. M atheson^ of Provincetown, Mass., was 

 built from this model at Essex, Mass., in 1875. She was specially 

 designed for engaging in the dory hand-line codfishery on the Grand 

 Banks of Newfoundland, a business she always followed in summer, 

 though in winter she found employment in the West Indian and 

 coastwise trades. 



The Matheson was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel; broad and 

 rather shallow, with moderately sharp bow ; raking stem ; long head ; 

 long floor, with comparatively little rise; rather short, very hollow 

 run ; broad, elliptical stern ; good sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 105 feet; between per- 

 pendiculars, 98 feet 9| inches; beam, 25 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 

 10 feet 5 inches; gross tonnage, 193.52. Scale of model, one-half inch 

 equals 1 foot. 



This vessel was one of the first, if not the original, three-masted 

 fishing schooner built in New England. Because of her large size 

 and rig she proved quite an innovation. She had a capacity for 

 5,000 quintals, or 560,000 pounds of codfish. She carried a crew of 

 about 28 or 30 men. A few other three-masted schooners have been 

 built for the New England fisheries, but, as a rule, they have not 

 proved profitable or popular, and a smaller two-masted scl;ooner is 

 generally preferred. 



The Matheson was lost in the West Indies in 1895. 

 Deposited by H. & S. Cook. Cat. No. 160,121 U.S.N.M. 



