234 BULLETIN 127, UNITED STATES XATIOXAL MUSEUM. 



Craft of a similar model and rig, but open and of smaller size, are 

 employed in the same fishery. The Snekkersteen boats range in size 

 from IT to 25 feet in length: they are fine sailers and excellent sea- 

 going craft. 



This is a -svooden, decked, clinker-built, double-ended, keel boat, 

 with sharp bow and stern : raking curved stem and sternpost ; deep 

 keel: hollow sharp floor; little sheer: cabin house amidships: cockpit 

 abaft house; small steersman's cockpit aft; main hatch forward; 

 cutter rigged with four sails — jib, stay-foresail, mainsail, and jib- 

 headed gaff-topsail. It has two oars and boat hook. 



Dimensions of hoat. — Length over all, 25 feet; beam, 8 feet 11^ 

 inches; depth of hold, 4 feet 4^ inches; extreme draft, 4 feet 7 inches; 

 hatch, 2J hy 2-1 feet ; house, 5 by 5 feet ; mast, above deck, 19 feet 2 

 inches ; gaff-topsail pole, 21 feet 3 inches ; oars, 15 feet ; boat hook, 10 

 feet. Scale of model, 1^ inches equal 1 foot. 



Boats of this class are framed and planked with oak, with pine 

 deck. Cat. No. 55,789 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Danish fishing boat. 



Boats of this type are used in the inshore fisheries of Jutland, one 

 of the northern Provinces of Denmark. 



This is an open, clinker-built, double-ended, keel boat ; sharp bow 

 and stern ; sharp floor ; raking stem and sternpost ; good sheer ; sloop- 

 rigged, with loose-footed sprit mainsail and jib. the latter tacking 

 to stem head ; four oars. 



Dimensions of hoat. — Length over all, 20 feet; beam, 6 feet 8 

 inches; depth, 2 feet 3 inches; mast, above thwart, 15 feet 5 inches; 

 oars, 16 feet 8 inches. These boats are planked with oak, nine 

 streaks on a side. Scale of model, 1^ inches equal 1 foot. 

 Gift of Arthur Feddersen. Cat. No. 7G,006 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of Russian steam frigate. 



The wooden-screw steam frigate General Admiral was built from 

 this model by William H. "Webb at New York in 1858. She had 64 

 guns in broadside, and at that time was one of the largest and most 

 powerful frigates in the world. 



She was a wooden, single-screw, steam frigate, with sharp bow; 

 moderately raking stem; rather low floor; wall side, tumbling in 

 somewhat at top ; easy run : nearly vertical sternpost : round stern ; 

 little sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 316 feet 6 inches, on load 

 water line, 302 feet 10 inches; beam, extreme, 54 feet 6 inches; 

 depth, 34 feet; draft, 22 feet 9^ inches; tonnage, 4,600. Scale of 

 model, one-third inch equals 1 foot. 



