176 BULLETIN 127, UN^ITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Block model of oyster schooner. 



The two-masted schooner, Sunny South, was built from this model 

 at Baltimore, Md., in 1855. She was specially designed for the 

 oyster fishery, with particular reference to carrying oysters from 

 the fishing grounds to Baltimore. She is of the type of small 

 freighting schooners called " Bay boats," of which there is a large 

 number employed on Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. 



The Sunny South was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with 

 sharp bow ; slightly raking stem ; long head ; rising floor ; long, well 

 formed run; wide, square stern: moderate sheer; long, low quarter 

 deck. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 75 feet, between perpen- 

 diculars 71 feet; beam, 22 feet; depth of hold, 5 feet; 80 tons, old 

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

 Gift of William Skinner & Sons. Cat. No. 76,096 U.S.N.M. 



Model of carry-away sloop. 



This represents a class of small, shallow, centerboard, yacht-like 

 sloops more or less extensively employed in carrying menhaden from 

 the "sailing gangs" on the fishing grounds to the factories of the 

 Long Island Sound region. Since 1885 these have been largely — in 

 some sections entirely — superseded by steamers, which carry their 

 own catch, and have driven the " sailing gangs " out of the fishery. 



This is a wooden, carvel-built, centerboard, sloop-rigged craft; 

 with sharp bow; broad beam; light draft; rather flat floor; fine run; 

 square stern ; decked, with large covered hatchway amidships, 14 feet 

 long, 8 feet wide, cabin trunk aft. 



Dimensions of vessels. — Length over all, 43 feet 6 inches; beam, 

 14 feet; draft of water aft, without centerboard, 3 feet 6 inches; 

 mainmast, above deck, 45 feet 6 inches; bowsprit, outside, 15 feet; 

 topmast, 22 feet 6 inches; main boom, 44 feet; main gaff, 21 feet. 

 Skiff boat attached — flat bottom, sharpy pattern — 11 feet 9 inches 

 long, 4 feet wide. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



Wlien a school of menhaden is caught in a purse seine the sloop 

 is laid alongside the net and the fish are bailed into the vessel's hold 

 until she is filled. If the catch is large enough, she sails away 

 for the factor}^ - Cat. No. 57,029 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of welled fishing- boat. 



The sloop Manhattan was built from this model in 1854 for em- 

 ])loyment in the market fisheries from Connecticut. It represents 

 the most advanced ideas at that date in designing sloop-rigged ves- 

 sels for the fisheries in southern New England. Practically with- 

 out exception these vessels had wells for keeping fish and lobsters 

 alive. 



