sailers and very weatherly and handy. They were 

 also fair carriers. The North Star, modeled by Richard 

 Simpson, a notable builder of coasters and fishing 

 schooners at Sullivan, was reported to have been 

 a fast sailer and a fine sea boat. 



The half-model represents a schooner having very 

 great sheer, a straight keel with heavy drag, rather 

 upright and curved stem rabbet, well rounded fore- 

 foot, slight rake to post, round tuck, upper-and- 

 lower-transom square stern, short entrance with 

 somewhat V-shaped watcrlines, fair length of body, 

 and a somewhat short but well formed run. The 

 midsection is formed with rather marked rise in the 

 straight floor, firm round bilge, and a slight tumble- 

 home in the topside. 



Vessels of this type had a short, heavy cutwater 

 and much steeve in the bowsprit, a short, high and 

 bulwarked quarterdeck; and, for their size high 

 bulwarks on the maindeck. The old form of bow, 

 having no flare, is very marked in the North Star. By 

 1856 this class of coaster had become better finished 

 than the earlier fishing schooners; a head and billet 

 with, sometimes, carved trails were often used, and 

 the deck arrangement and deck fittings approached 

 those of contemporary fishing and coasting schooners, 

 of the then "modern" design, built in Maine and 

 Massachusetts. 



The model is for a schooner measuring 60 feet 

 moulded length at rail, 58 feet 9 inches length between 

 perpendiculars, 17 feet 6 inches moulded beam, 

 6 feet 3 inches moulded depth, and 8 feet 3 inches 

 draft at post, loaded. Scale of the model is % inch 

 to the foot. 



Given by D. A. Simpson, Sullivan, Maine. 



TWO-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1838 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76052 



K. B. Sumner 



The 2-masted keel coasting schooner R. B. Sumner 

 was built on this model at Newburyport, Massa- 

 chusetts, for owners in that port, in 1858. This vessel 

 is said to have been intended for the general coastal 

 freighting trade but she is unusually sharp for this 

 employment; in any case she was found to be a fast 

 sailer and was employed as a packet on the Boston- 

 Newburyport run. It is probable that she was 

 modeled and built as a packet rather than as a 

 freighter. 



The half-model represents a schooner hull having 

 a slight and graceful sheer, straight keel with moderate 

 drag, raking and flaring stem rabbet with slightly 

 rounded forefoot, slightly raking post, round tuck, 

 upper-and-lower-transom square stern, sharp convex 

 entrance of moderate length, and a rather long and 

 very fine run. The midsection is formed with a some- 

 what rising straight floor, full round bilge, and a 

 moderate tumble-home in the topside. There is a 

 moderate flare in the bow sections. 



Mounted with a graceful longhead having trails 

 and billet, cutwater, keel, rudder and post. A long 

 quarterdeck monkey rail is ^hown. The schooner 

 had a turned-stanchion-and-cap quarterdeck rail, 

 packet-fashion. 



The R. B. Sumner was about 84 feet 3 inches moulded 

 length at rail, 79 feet 8 inches between perpendiculars, 

 21 feet 2 inches moulded beam, 8 feet 4 inches 

 moulded depth, and had a draft, loaded, of 9 feet 



Lines of the Coasting and Packet Schooner R. B. Sumner, built at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1858. 

 Taken off the builder's half-model USNM 76052. 



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