MERCHANT BRIGANTINE, 1854 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76135 



Fredonia 



The trading brigantine Fredonia was built on this 

 model in 1854 at Ellsworth, Maine, for the West In- 

 dian trade. She was an ad\anced design for her time 

 and, in general, her model shows many of the char- 

 acteristics that marked brigantines built in Maine and 

 Nova Scotia 20 years later, combining cargo capacity 

 with \-ery good sailing qualities. Slightly narrower 

 than contemporary Maine-built brigantines of her 

 approximate length, the Fredonia was considered a 

 very handsome vessel, and was profitable to operate. 



The half-model represents a brigantine hull having 

 moderate sheer, a straight keel, flaring and rather 

 upright stem rabbet with rounded forefoot, nearly 

 upright post, short counter and raking transom, mod- 

 erately sharp entrance with much flare in the bow 

 sections, giving a full rail line, practically no deadflat, 

 and a long and easy run. The midsection shows a 

 short and slightly rising straight floor, easy and round 

 bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside. The 

 model shows a short quarterdeck. 



The model is for a vessel 103 feet moulded length 

 at rail, 24 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 10 feet 

 moulded depth. Scale of the model is 'o inch to the 

 foot. 



Given by Abraham Lord. 



MERCHANT BRIGANTINE, 1856 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76115 



Anita Owe)! 



The brigantine-rigged merchant vessel Anita Owen 

 of New York was built on this model at Millbridge, 

 Maine, in 1856 by Ezekiel Dyer for the West Indian 

 trade. She was a profitable and well built vessel, cost- 

 ing $20,000, of a type that carried a large cargo for her 

 size yet sailed quite well. The A)uta Owen was lost in 

 1870. 



The half-model is of a burdensome brigantine-rigged 

 trading vessel having moderate sheer, a straight keel, 

 rather upright but flaring stem rabbet with a very 

 small curved forefoot, nearly upright post, round tuck, 

 a square stem with raking transom, a rather full en- 

 trance, and a moderately long, easy run. The mid- 

 section is formed with a slightly rising and \'ery short 

 floor developing into a rather easy and much rounded 

 bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the topside. There 

 is strone flare in the bow sections. 



Mounted with a small, pointed longhead, trails, cut- 

 water, keel, post, and rudder. 



The model scales 117 feet moulded length at rail, 

 27 feet 5 inches moulded beam, 13 feet 6 inches 

 moulded depth. Scale is Yn inch to the foot. 



Given by Captain Austin Dyer. 



MERCHANT BRIGANTINE, 1856 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76100 



Hurricane Bird 



The trading brigantine Hurricane Bird was built at 

 Baltimore, Maryland, by Pendergast and Brother in 

 1856 for the West Indian trade. The Hurricane Bird 

 was a handsome and fast vessel on a clipper model 

 that Maryland builders had developed, by gradual 

 modification of the old Baltimore clipper hull form, 

 brigs and brigantines in the late 1830's very similar in 

 character to the later and better known clipper ships 

 of the late 1840's. 



The Hurricane Bird was launched November 3, 1856, 

 and ^vas lost at sea in 1859. She was heavily sparred 

 and canvassed like most of the Maryland-built brigan- 

 tines in the West Indian sugar trade. Speed in these 

 traders was probably desired because many carried 

 north fruit, as well as sugar and molasses. 



The half-model is of a medium clipper brigantine 

 having rather slight sheer, a straight keel with very 

 slight drag, very flaring and raking stem rabbet, 

 nearly upright post, a short coimter with a raking 

 square transom ha\'ing some cur\'e athwartships, rather 

 long and sharp entrance, and a flne run of moderate 

 lentrth. The midsection is formed with a moderate 

 rise in the straight floor, rather hard bilge, and a 

 slight tumble-home in the topside. The bow sections 

 flare considerably. 



Mounted with a pointed longhead, cutwater, keel, 

 post, and rudder; a short quarterdeck is indicated. 



The model scales 111 feet motilded length at rail, 

 26 feet moulded beam, and 10 feet 10 inches moulded 

 depth, deck to rabbet at side. Scale is 'o inch to the 

 foot. 



Given I:)y William Skinner and Sons, shipbuilders, 

 Baltimore, Maryland. 



MERCHANT BRIGANTINE, 1858 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76099 



Alexander Kirklandj George Lafimer 



The trading brigantines Alexander Kirkland and 

 George Latimer %vere built on this model in 1 858 for 

 the West Indian trade by \Villiam Skinner and Sons, 



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