Lines of the Square-Topsail Coasting Schooners Arrowsic and Eagle, built at Airowsic Island, Kennebec 

 River, Maine, in 1847. The Eagle was employed as a New York to Bath packet. Taken off the builder's 

 half-model USNM 76069. 



father of the donor of the half-model. The Eagle in 

 particular had the reputation of being a fast sailer 

 and on one occasion made the run from New York to 

 Bath, outside Long Island and around Clape Cod, in 

 210 hours wharf to wharf. The Arrowsic was con- 

 sidered a good sailer; she capsized and sank off Block 

 Island, sometime about I860, through carrying too 

 great a press of canvas dvu'ing a gale. 



The half-model represents a coasting schooner hav- 

 ing marked sheer, a straight keel with moderate drag, 

 slightly raking and flaring stem rabbet \vith a well 

 rounded forefoot, slightly raking post, round tuck, 

 and an upper-and-lowcr-transom square stern (the 

 lower transom is unusually small). The entrance is 

 short but inoderately sharp at and below the load 

 waterline, with a very full deck line and rail, and the 

 run is long and rather fine for so burdensome a vessel. 

 The iTiidscction is formed with some rise in the straight 

 floor, a well rounded and rather easy turn of bilge, 

 and some tumble-home in the topside. The bow 

 sections show great flare. 



These schooners had deep bulwarks and a short, 

 high quarterdeck. They had short heavy cutwaters 

 fitted with trails, knees, head rails, and billets. The 

 model is of the lift type, to represent waterlines or level 

 lines, and the lifts are held together l)y wooden toggles 

 through thein, with wedges at bottom and top, in- 

 stead of the iron screws usually employed to fasten the 

 lifts together. 



The model is for a vessel about 85 feet 9 inches 

 moulded length at main rail, 22 feet 8 inches moulded 

 beam, and 7 feet 10 inches moulded depth from rabbet 

 to underside of deck at side, 81 feet 7 inches between 

 perpendiculars, and 9 feet 8 inches draft at post when 



fully loaded. Scale of the model is % inch to the foot. 

 Given by William P. Pattee, shipbuilder, Bath, 

 Maine. 



TWO-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1847 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76109 



Watchman 



The 2-masted coasting schooner Watchman was built 

 on this model at Tinker's Island, Maine, in 1847. A 

 low-deck vessel intended for the general coasting trade, 

 and particularly for carrying lumber from Maine to 

 Boston and southern New England ports, she was a 

 good exam]5le of the type of coaster employed in this 

 trade in the 1840's and 1850's. Such vessels had 

 high hatch coamings, as they were habitually loaded 

 until the maindeck was nearly awash. 



The model represents a burdensome schooner hull 

 ha\ing moderate sheer, a straight keel with slight 

 drag, a curved and raking stem rabbet, nearly up- 

 right post, round tuck, upper-and-lower-transom 

 square stern, a short and full entrance with flaring bow 

 sections, long body, and a short and full run. The 

 midsection is formed with a very moderate rise in the 

 straight floor, round and easy bilge, and a slight tum- 

 ble-home in the topside. The stern in this model is 

 deep for the dcjjth of the hull, giving the vessel a very 

 heavy appearance. 



Mounted with a deep, heavy head, cutwater, keel, 

 post, and rudder. A short quarterdeck is indicated. 



The model scales 80 feet moulded length at rail, 22 

 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 7 feet depth of hold. 

 The scale is U' inch to the foot. 



Given by Joshua Watson, shipbuilder, Sedgwick, 

 Maine. 



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