NEW YORK PILOT SCHOONER, about 1835-43 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 315932 



A large New York pilot schooner was l^uilt on this 

 model, at some time between 1835 and 1845, for the 

 Sandy Hook service. The name of the vessel is 

 unknown. The model was preserved in the Brooklyn 

 Athenaeum until taken possession of by the U. S. 

 Navy Department and held at the U. S. Naval 

 Academy. Annapohs, Maryland. 



The haH'-model is of a rather typical New York 

 pilot boat of the period, having slight sheer, a straight 

 keel of moderate drag, much rounded and well 

 raked stem rabbet, strongly raking stern post ral)bet 

 and an upper-and-lower-transom square stern, wide 

 and shallow. The entrance is short but moderately 

 sharp, the run is long and easy. The midsection is 

 located well forward of midlength and is formed with 

 sharply rising floors, slightly hollow at garljoard. and 

 a well rounded and rather slack ijilge carried up roimd 

 to deck level. The forward sections are nearly 

 V-shaped. 



The model, made to a scale of J2 inch to the foot, 

 represents a schooner 80 feet moulded length at deck, 

 23 feet moulded beam, and 8 feet 9 inches moulded 

 depth. Model is made to deck level, no bulwarks 

 being shown. 



Customarily the New York pilot schooners of this 

 date and type had a very low rail, and were often 

 long, low flush-decked boats, heavily sparred and 

 canvassed. Their working rig was a large jib, gafl- 

 foresail with no boom and overlapping the main, and 

 a gaff-mainsail with boom. A short main-topmast 

 supported a main-topmast staysail. The area of the 

 foresail was large and the l)oats usually worked under 

 this sail alone on the pilot grounds, setting full sail 

 only when racing to meet an incoming vessel. The 

 New York pilot schooners were long noted for their 

 speed and sailing qualities. 



Model lent by U. S. Navy Department. 



PILOT SCHOONER, 1853 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76032 



Dancing Feather 



The Boston pilot schooner Dancing Feather was built 

 on this model by Dennison J. Lawlor at East Boston, 

 Massachusetts, in 1853. The model represented an 

 extreme clipper schooner design for the date and the 

 vessel was celebrated for her speed, weatherline.ss, 

 and seaworthiness. She was deeper bodied than was 

 then common in her type. The Dancing Feather 



carried the usual pilot-schooner rig of her date; in 

 winter she had no foretopmast nor jib boom, so had 

 neither fore gafif-topsail nor jib topsail. In summer 

 she carried these spars and had mainsail, foresail 

 without boom; with its clew overlapping the main; a 

 large jib, main gafif-topsail, main-topmast staysail, 

 fore gaff-topsail and a jib topsail. 



The half-model is of a pilot-schooner hull having 

 moderate sheer, straight keel with great drag, a 

 raking and slightly flaring stem rabbet moderately 

 rounded at the forefoot, slightly raking post, short 

 and light-round fantail stern with flaring bulwarks, 

 a long, sharp, and slightly convex entrance with hollow 

 at forefoot, and a long and very fine run. The mid- 

 section is formed with a sharply rising floor with 

 very slight hollow in the garboard, high and rather 

 firm bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. Bow 

 sections have rather marked flare. The model is 

 mounted with a graceful longhead, billet, trails, cut- 

 water, keel, post, and rudder. 



The model scales 67 feet 6 inches moulded length 

 at rail, 19 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 8 feet 4 

 inches moulded depth. Scale of model }i inch to the 

 foot. 



Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, shipbuilder, Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts. 



PILOT SCHOONER, 1863 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76047 



Edwin Forrest 



The New York and Boston pilot-schooner Edwin 

 Forrest, named after the noted American actor, was 

 built at East Boston, Massachusetts, in 1865 hv 

 Dennison J. Lawlor to replace the Edwin Forrest, 

 Xo. I J, of New York, lost oflF Long Island in 1862. 

 She became a celebrated pilot Ijoat. showing great 

 speed on all points of sailing and was long considered 

 a model of her type. -After Ijeing employed for many 

 years at New York and Boston, she was sold to the 

 Pensacola, Florida, pilots. 



The model shows a pilot-schooner hull ha\ ing 

 moderate and graceful sheer, straight keel with strong 

 drag, a much rounded forefoot, nearly straight and 

 slightly raking stem rabbet, vertical post, strongly 

 raking V-shaped transom gix'ing a short stern over- 

 hang. The entrance is sharp and rather hollow, and 

 the run is very fine and long. The midsection shows 

 a sharply rising and slightly hollow floor, high and 

 hard bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. There 

 is little flare forward and the bow is noticeably wedge 

 shaped. 



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