Thomas Howard were 79.2 feet length, 20.6 feet beam, 

 and 7.6 feet depth in hold, 50.59 gross tons. 

 Gift of James H. Allyn, Mystic, Connecticut. 



PILOT SCHOONER, 1876 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76038 



Lillie 



The Boston pilot schooner Lillie was built at East 

 Boston, Massachusetts, on this model by Dennison J. 

 Lawlor in 1876. She represented the trend toward 

 deeper bodied pilot boats that appears to have started 

 at Boston, beginning about this date and continuing 

 into the 1880's. The Lillie was a very successful 

 schooner in her business, and for many years was a 

 well known Boston pUot boat. She was afterwards 

 sold to the New York pilots and renamed Richard K. Fox. 



The half-model shows a pilot-schooner hull ha\dng 

 considerable sheer, a low freeboard, straight keel with 

 marked drag, well rounded forefoot, curved and 

 nearly upright stem rabbet, vertical post, a short 

 overhang formed by the sharply raking V-shaped 

 transom, a long and sharp entrance with much hollow 

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

 section is formed with a sharply rising floor, quite 

 hollow at garboard, a high and firm turn of bilge, and 

 tumble-home in the topside. Very little flare fonvard 

 and bow wedge shaped to a marked degree. 



Mounted with a cuived and upright stem, keel, 

 post, and rudder, and with bulwark indicated by a 

 lift. 



The model is for a pilot boat 73 feet \\% inches 

 moulded length at rail, 66 feet 10 inches between 

 perpendiculars, 19 feet 10 inches moulded beam, and 



10 feet moulded depth. Scale of the model is ]i inch 

 to the foot. 



Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, shipbuilder, Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts. 



PILOT SCHOONER, 1884 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76037 



Hesper 



The celebrated Boston pilot schooner Hesper was 

 built on this model in 1884 by Dennison J. Lawlor at 

 East Boston, Massachusetts. She was long consid- 

 ered the fastest pilot schooner in America and was the 

 favorite opponent of every new schooner, yacht, or 

 fisherman launched in Massachusetts. The Hesper 

 had unusually sharp lines; she was longer, and was 

 deeper and narrower in proportion, than previous 

 pilot boats. She was designed to have all her ballast, 

 lead and iron, inside, some years after her launching 

 some was placed on her keel, outside. The Hesper 

 had much influence on the Massachusetts-built fishing 

 schooners and was one of the vessels that made depth, 

 in proportion to length and beam, very popular in the 

 New England fishing fleet, after 1885, as well as in 

 later Boston pilot schooners. The Hesper (see p. 54) 

 when old was sold by the pilots, became a yacht for a 

 few years, and was broken up sometime after 1910. 



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

 rather strong sheer, low freeboard, a rather short, 

 straight keel with heavy drag, the fore end much 

 curved and fairing into a well rounded forefoot, the 

 stem rabbet becoming straight and upright at load- 

 line. The post is vertical; the counter short, with a 

 very raking V-shaped transom; the entrance long, 



/S^r^^ L/LUE 





Lines of the Boston Pilot Schooner Lillie, built at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1876. Taken off the builder's 

 half-model USNM 76038. 



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