sisters Powhatan, built at Newbury, Massachusetts, 

 in 1829, and the Pocahontas, built there the following 

 year, both on this half-model. The type of brig 

 represented by this model was developed into an 

 extreme kettle bottom in Cushing's later vessels. 



The half-model represents a deep, narrow, brig- 

 rigged vessel having a very slight sheer, straight keel 

 with little or no drag, a rather upright and straight 

 stem rabbet, small rounded forefoot, upright post, 

 round tuck, upper-and-lower-transom square stern 

 with small overhang, very short and ijluff entrance, 

 a long parallel body, and a short, very full run. The 

 midsection shows a slightly rising floor, firm bilge, 

 and a slight tumble-home in the straight topside. 



The model is for a vessel 1 1 3 feet moulded length 

 at rail, 26 feet 4 inches moulded beam, 17}^ feet 

 moulded depth, and about 268 tons register, old 

 measurement. Scale of the model is ^4 inch to the foot. 



Gi\en by John N. Gushing, Newburyport, Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



MERCHANT BRIG, 1832 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76058 



Palos 



The brig-rigged merchant vessel Pains was built on 

 this model at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1832 

 for John N. Gushing of that port. She was an extreme 

 kettle bottom, narrow, deep and with very great 

 tumble-home in the topsides. The brig was so profit- 

 able, largely because she carried cargo tonnage far 

 in excess of her register tonnage (port dues were paid 

 only on the latter), that fifteen brigs were afterwards 

 built, most of them by Stephen Jackman, on the 

 moulds, or model, of the Palos. Among the vessels 

 built on this half-model, which may be said to have 

 been the standard one for i:)rigs in the Gushing fleet, 

 were the Carthage, Athens, Corinth, James Gray, Nicholas, 

 James Caskie, Ark, Massachusetts, Salisbury, Smith, and 

 Tuttle. The brig Keying was the last; launched in 

 1845, she cost 122,264.98. These kettle-bottom brigs 

 traded chiefly to Europe and the \Vest Indies, bearing 



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KtrrLt-BuiiuMBRiG.y«/niuo', btiih uii ihe model of the /'.//uj ibuildcis liall-uiodtl L'SXM 76058; ai .\c-ubui>', 

 Massachusetts, in 1844. From a painting by Frederic Roux, at Le Havre in the 1840's. {Smithsonian photo 

 3394) 



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