floor, a hard, round bilge, and a slight tumble- 

 home in the topside. There are short whaleback 

 decks at bow and stern. 



A long main deckhouse with the pilothouse and 

 a small deckhouse on its roof, a single stack, venti- 

 lators, skylights, a life raft, fire buckets in a rack, 

 and six lifeboats in davits are shown. The maindeck 

 rail is an open one without bulwarks. 



The Cuba was 246 feet 9 inches overall, 28 feet 

 4 inches beam, 17 feet 3 inches depth. The spar 

 dimensions were: foremast above deck 51 feet, fore- 

 topmast heel to truck 36 feet, fore yard 49 feet 4 

 inches, fore topsail yard 42 feet 9 inches, fore top- 

 gallant yard 38 feet 3 inches, mainmast above deck 

 53 feet 3 inches, main topmast heel to truck 36 feet 

 9 inches, and main gaff 34 feet 4 inches. The boats 

 were 19 feet 4 inches long and 5 feet 9 inches beam. 

 Scale of model ]{ inch to one foot. 



Given by the Cuba's builders, Neafie and Levy, 

 shipbuilders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



AUXILIARY, SCREW STEAMER 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311456 



Amiral de Joie 



This half-model of a fast auxiliary steam screw 

 vessel named Amiral de Joie, having dimensions in 

 French and with an indistinct flag and seal or coat 

 of arms on the backboard, was found in the shipyard 

 of the Jackson and Sharpe Company. No record of 

 the vessel having been built there has yet been 

 found; the model is a decorative one representing 

 a fast, wooden steamer, probably rigged as a 3- 

 masted topsail schooner haxdng a single screw. 

 The model may represent a dispatch boat or govern- 

 ment mail packet of 1853-65 belonging to the French 

 government. The general appearance is that of a 

 British Navy dispatch vessel of about 1858. 



The half-model shows a hull having a strong, grace- 

 ful sheer, a straight keel with drag, and a raking and 

 flaring stem rabbet with rounded forefoot. The stem 

 is fitted with a longhead and trails, the post is vertical 

 and the stern formed with a round fantail with flaring 

 bulwarks, the entrance is rather long and quite sharp, 

 and the run is fairly long and very fine. The mid- 

 section is formed with a rising straight floor, a rather 

 slack round bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. 



The model is mounted with stub masts, and a stack 

 on a round boiler housing located between the fore 

 and main masts; the general deck arrangement is 

 indicated. The lettering on the backboard states 



that the vessel was "175 pieds" length between per- 

 pendiculars, "30 pieds" beam, and "18 pieds" depth. 

 The scale is apparently ]{ inch to the foot, giving 

 in English feet a moulded length at rail of about 192 

 feet, 32 feet moulded beam and 18 feet moulded depth, 

 rabbet to rail, by measurement. 



Given by the American Car and Foundry Company, 

 Wilmington, Delaware; successors to Jackson and 

 Sharpe Company, shipbuilders. 



WOODEiSI, OCEAN STEAMER, 1870-85 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 



This half-model of an unidentified wooden, ocean- 

 going steamer is in the Watercraft Collection, without 

 markings or information as to source or donor. The 

 model resembles the steamer Mexico built by Dickie 

 Brothers, San Francisco, in 1881, whose lines are 

 shown in Hall's Report on Shipbuilding. It is of a 

 smaller ship, however, judging by the apparent scale, 

 which is believed to be % inch to the foot. 



The half-model shows a wooden, single-screw steam- 

 er hull having marked sheer, a straight keel with little 

 or no drag, a straight upright stem rabbet with slightly 

 rounded forefoot, upright post, round fantail counter 

 with flaring bulwarks, sharp convex entrance of mod- 

 erate length, a rather long body and a short and well 

 formed run. The midsection shows a slightly rising 

 straight floor, a low and hard round bilge, and a 

 slight tumble-home in the topside. 



Assuming the scale to be Y^ inch to the foot and the 

 lift lines spaced at 24 inches, the vessel would have 

 been about 202 feet 8 inches moulded length at rail, 

 30 feet 8 inches moulded beam, and 24 feet depth, 

 rabbet to rail cap. 



SCREW CARGO STEAMER, about 1880-90 

 Exhibition Half-Model, usnm 313330 



Calderon 



This is a decorative half-model showing deck struc- 

 tures and layout of an iron or steel steamer, probably 

 English built, of about 1 880-90. No information on 

 this vessel has been found in the Museum. 



The model is of a single screw steamer having 

 moderate sheer, a straight keel, cutaway forefoot, 

 upright straight stem, upright post, round fantail 

 counter, and an easy entrance and run. The body 

 is long and the midsection is formed with a slightly 

 rising straight floor, a hard round bilge, and a slight 

 tumble-home in the topside. 



The model shows a short raised forecastle and poop, 

 with a short island amidships. There is one deck- 



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