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Lines of the 2-Masted Coasting Schooner North Star, built at Sullivan, Maine, 1856. This vessel is some- 

 what similar to the early Marblehead type of fishing schooner. Taken off the builder's half-model USNM 

 76128. 



and a long body. The midsection is formed with a 

 slightly rising straight floor, a round and easy bilge, 

 and some tumble-home in the topside. She has a 

 notably long straight side and wide stern. 



The model scales 102 feet moulded length at rail, 

 90 feet between perpendiculars, 25 feet 3}^ inches ex- 

 treme beam, and 8 feet S^U inches depth in hold. 

 Scale is J^ inch to the foot. 



Given by Hamen Cousins, shipbuilder, Lamoine, 

 Maine. 



TWO-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1855 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76136 



J. W. Hale 



The 2-masted, keel coasting schooner J. IT. Hale 

 was built on this model in 1855 at Brooklin, Maine, 

 for the general coasting trade. This vessel was de- 

 signed primarily to carry lumber. She was employed 

 for 2 years in the freighting of longleaf yellow pine 

 from Jacksonville, Florida, and from Savannah and 

 other southern ports to New England for shipbuilding 

 and construction purposes. The vessels in this trade 

 also freighted marine stores out of the Florida port 

 and carried manufactured goods south. The J. W. 

 Hale made two West Indian voyages, and was lost off 

 Hatteras when she was 4 or 5 years old. 



The half-model shows a wide, shallow schooner hull 

 having very moderate sheer, a straight keel with very 

 slight drag, a curved and raking stem rabbet, slightly 

 raking post, round tuck, wide square stern with raking 



transom, the entrance short and rather sharp, and the 

 body long and the run short and quite full, with 

 flaring bow sections. The midsection shows a slightly 

 rising straight floor, full and rather easy bilge, and a 

 slight tumble-home in the topside. 



Mounted with a rather light head of moderate 

 length, cutwater, keel, post, and rudder. A short 

 quarterdeck is indicated. 



The model scales 87 feet moulded length at rail, 23 

 feet moulded beam, and 7 feet 6 inches moulded 

 depth. Scale is J^ inch to the foot. 



Given by Moses B. Day, Brooklin, Maine. 



TWO-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1856 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76128 



North Star 



The small 2-masted, fore-and-aft rigged coasting 

 schooner .North Star was built on this model in 1856 

 at Sullivan, Maine. She was intended for the coastal 

 lumber trade. The model represents an obsolete 

 type of coaster at the date she was built, but this 

 hull form remained popular with some Eastern Maine 

 owners until after the Civil War because of its sailing 

 qualities. In general, the model was very nearly 

 that of the old Marblehead fishing schooner of colonial 

 times, with some additions. The coasters had the 

 same marked sheer, heavy drag to keel, high and 

 short quarterdeck, rising floor, full short entrance, 

 and rather easy run. Like the old Marblehead 

 schooner, these small Maine-built vessels were good 



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