quarter-deck, though the model indicates a short one. 



Mounted with graceful longhead, billet and trails, 

 cutwater, keel, post, rudder, and a short quarter- 

 deck monkey rail. 



The model scales 131 feet 3 inches moulded length 

 at rail, 123 feet between perpendiculars, 29 feet 6 

 inches moulded beam, and 9 feet 4 inches moulded 

 depth to deck at side. Depth of bulwarks 4 feet. 

 Scale is % inch to the foot. 



Given by C. P. Carter and Clompany, shipl)uilders, 

 Belfast, Maine. 



THREE-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1873 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311859 



Emelie E. Birdsall 



The 3-masted. centerboard, coasting schooner 

 Emelie E. Birdsall of Wilmington, Delaware, was 

 built at that port in 1873-74 by Jackson and Sharpe 

 Company. She was modeled by Captain Edward 

 Kershaw and was noted as a \'ery fast sailer and 

 handy vessel. 



The half-model represents a hull having strong 

 sheer, a straight keel with very little drag, raking and 

 flaring stem rabbet slightly roimded at the forefoot, 

 upright post, short coimter having a raking elliptical 

 transom, sharp convex entrance with hollow at 

 forefoot, rather short body, and a long and easy run. 

 The midsection shows a slightly rising straight floor, 

 well rounded and somewhat easy l^ilge, and tumble- 

 home in the topside. 



Mounted with longhead, billet, trails, cutwater, 

 keel, post, rudder, and a short quarterdeck monkey 

 rail. 



The Birdsall was 145 feet 9 inches between per- 

 pendiculars, 29 feet moulded beam, and 10 feet 6 



inches moulded depth to rail. Scale of the half-model 

 is % inch to the foot. 



Given by the American Car and Foundry Com- 

 pany, Wilmington, Delaware, successors to Jackson 

 and Sharpe Company. 



THREE-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1874 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76074 



William F. Frederick 



The 3-masted, keel, coasting schooner William F. 

 Frederick of Belfast, Maine, was built on this half- 

 model by C. P. Carter and Company of that port in 

 1874 for the \\'est Indian trade and for general coast- 

 wise service. This keel schooner was much deeper 

 than the centerboard 3-masters built by this distin- 

 guished firm of shipbuilders and proved to be a fast 

 and seaworthy trader, noted as a very easy vessel in 

 heavy seas. She was built of hardwood, framed with 

 laeech, maple, and birch, and with hackmatack top- 

 timljers to save weight; her planking and ceiling were 

 southern yellow pine, and her deck white pine. 

 She was abandoned at sea, October 4, 1895, dur- 

 ing a very severe northeast gale, while on a s'oyage 

 from the Saltilla River, Georgia, to Belfast, Maine, 

 with a cargo of yellow pine lumljer and marine stores. 

 Her crew was rescued by the steamer Franklin. Be- 

 cause the steamer's boats could not approach the 

 vessel, the schooner's crew, at great risk to them- 

 selves, had to jump into the sea and be picked up. 



The half-model shows a very deep ship-form hull, 

 having rather marked and graceful sheer, straight keel 

 with little or no drag, slightly raking and moderately 

 flaring stem rabbet very slightly rounded at the fore- 

 foot, a slightly raking post, short counter, wide and 

 light elliptical transom, strongly raked, a rather sharp 



Lines of the 3-Masted Coasting Schooner William F. Frederick, built, 1873-74, at Belfast, Maine, for the 

 coastwise and West Indian trades. Taken off the builder's half-model USNM 76074. 



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