rabbet, raking post, short counter, and a flat and 

 strongly raking transom. The model is to the deck 

 line. The entrance is sharp and rather short, the run 

 short but rather easy. The midsection shows a 

 moderately rising straight floor, a full round bilge, 

 and a slight tumble-home in topside. The greatest 

 beam is a little forward of midlength. 



Scale of the model is ji inch to the foot, for a vessel 

 124 feet 6 inches. Moulded length at deck, 30 feet 

 6 inches moulded beam, and 14 feet moulded depth. 

 Dimensions of the Gaviota were: Register length 127.6 

 feet, beam 31.1 feet, depth in hold 11.7 feet, and 287 

 tons gross, 263 tons net. The vessel was apparently 

 lengthened three frame spaces amidships. 



Gift of Jose E. Echevarria, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. 



PILOT-SCHOONER YACHT, 1806-1950 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 315852 



This half-model is of a proposed schooner yacht 

 whose lines were drawn in 1950 as a modification of 

 an 1806-design by Samuel Humphreys called "Yacht 

 for Canton." The proposed yacht was to be named 

 Chasseur but was not built. 



The model represents a class of small pilot-boat 

 schooners built in the United States in the early 19th 

 century for any trade or purpose requiring fast sailing. 

 The Chasseur was intended to test the hull form of 

 these schooners in comparison with those of modern 

 cruising yachts. 



The model shows a small schooner having rather 

 straight sheer, a straight keel with drag, curved and 

 raking stem rabbet, raking post, uppcr-and-lower- 

 transom stern with square tuck, rather short and 

 inoderately sharp entrance, and a long, easy run. 

 The greatest beam is forward of midlength, the mid- 

 section is formed with sharply rising straight floor, 

 a high, easy round bilge, and some flare in topside. 



The half-model represents a schooner 54 feet 

 between perpendiculars, 13 feet 1 inch moulded 

 beam, and 6 feet 10 inches draft at post. Scale of 

 the model is % inch to the foot. It is illustrated on 

 p. 9. 



Given by \Villiam E. Geoghegan, Baltimore, 

 Maryland. 



PILOT SCHOONER, about 1812 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 316628 



Stiap Dragon 



The "pilot-boat" privateer schooner Snap Dragon 

 was built on this model, about 1812, at Wilmington, 



North Carolina. Customhouse records of this schooner 

 were destroyed during the Civil War. The Snap 

 Dragon was one of the three privateer schooners, all 

 pilot-boats, fitted out at Wilmington during the War 

 of 1812, and the most successful. During her career 

 she was commanded by Captains E. Pasteur, O. Burns, 

 and N. Graham. In August and September 1813 

 she captured the British merchant brigs Good Intent, 

 Venus and Happy, the barque Reprisal, and the schooner 

 Elizabeth. She later took the brig Ann with a cargo of 

 drygoods valeud at about five hundred thousand 

 dollars. She also captured the brig Jane, the brig 

 Linnet, and an unnamed schooner laden with mahog- 

 any. She was licensed as being of 147 tons, with 6 

 guns. 



The half-model shows the hull of a typical pilot- 

 boat schooner of the date having very little sheer, 

 a straight keel with much drag, raking, curved stem 

 rabJDet, raking post, round tuck, and a square stern. 

 The rake of the bow and stern are pronounced: the 

 rudder was outboard of the transom, which is wide 

 and shallow. The entrance is of moderate length 

 and is convex and sharp, the run long and easy. 

 The midsection is formed with a rising straight floor 

 with a barely perceptible hollow at the garboard, 

 a high, round, and slack bilge, and a flaring topside. 

 The quarters are very thin and there is some flare in 

 the bow sections. The schooner had a low log rail 

 when built, and sat low in the water. The half- 

 model, which is to deck level, is made of a solid block 

 and one top lift. To loft the schooner, the lines were 

 probably taken from the block by use of a lead bar. 



Scale of the model is unknown. If 'i inch to the 

 foot, it would produce a vessel about 58 feet 9 inches 

 on deck, 17 feet 2 inches moulded beam, and 7 feet 

 9 inches moulded depth. The model is one of the 

 four known builders' models of American privateers 

 of the War of 1812 and the only one of a Southern 

 privateer. It is illustrated on page 11. 



Schooners of this size and model, heavily sparred 

 and canvassed and very fast, were quite popular 

 with American vessel owners in the \V'est Indian 

 trade during the early 19th century. They usually 

 had a curved stem, without knee or decorations, and 

 with prominent knighthcads and hawse timbers 

 extending well above the rails. When fitted for a 

 privateer, bulwarks were probai^ly added, and a 

 square course and topsail fitted on the foremast. 



Lent bv the U.S. Naval Historical Foundation. 



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