Morgan Line Packet, the Coastwise Steamship Louisiana, built by John Roach & Son, Chester, Pennsyl- 

 vania, in 1880 for the New York to New Orleans run. Length 320', beam 39', depth 28'6". (Smilhsoman 

 photo 33 1 1.) 



A long deckhouse on the boat deck, domed forward 

 over the main saloon, reaches from the foremast to 

 abaft the mainmast. On this are upper and lower 

 bridges, a wheelhouse, two stacks, and trunk gratings. 

 On each side the vessel carries four boats on davits 

 with gratings out to them from the top of the deck- 

 house. Between the main and mizzen masts are 

 two small deckhouses and four boats in davits, two 

 on each side. 



The vessel measured 576 feet between perpendicu- 

 lars, 63 feet beam, and 10,786 tons register. She 

 had two triple expansion engines. Scale of model is 

 ji inch to the foot. 



The vessel is rigged as a 3-masted schooner with 

 pole bowsprit and standing gaffs; the sails are furled 

 to the masts. This inodel shows the ship after her 

 rebuilding in 1900, with two, instead of three stacks. 



Transferred from the U. S. Post Office Department. 



TRANS- ATLANTIC LINER, 1907 

 Rigged Model, usnm 311006 



Mauretania 



The Maurelania was built by Swan, Hunter, and 

 Wigham Richardson in 1907 at Wallsend-on-Tyne, 

 Scotland, for the Cunard Line. Tiu-bine driven, she 



was coal-biu'nina; when built, and was converted 

 to oil fuel in 1919. The Mauretania held many speed 

 records in her da\' and was, for many years, a popular 

 liner on the trans-Atlantic nm out of New York. 

 The ship was broken up in 1935. She was one of 

 the famous "four-stackers" of the Cunard Line, and 

 was a sister-ship of the Lusitania. 



The model shows a large, four-stack, quadruple- 

 screw liner, having a straight keel with no drag, 

 upright straight stem slightly rounded at forefoot, 

 which is cut away slightly, at an angle to the keel, a 

 vertical post, a round fantail counter with a "bustle" 

 above the rudder, steam-yacht fashion, a balanced 

 rudder, shafts without struts, housed and faired into 

 the hull. The entrance is long and sharp, the run long 

 and fine. Midsection formed with a slightly rising 

 straight floor, a hard bilge on a short radius, and a 

 nearly vertical topside with a slight tumble-home near 

 the main deck. The sheer is broken, the long fore- 

 castle and its deck extending almost to the stern. 



The model is shown with two masts, four raking 

 stacks, and a long double-deck deckhouse, with 

 bridges and wheelhouse forward. 



The vessel ineasured 790 feet overall, 87 feet 6 

 inches moulded beam, and 60 feet 6 inches depth to 



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