placing the earlier sailing garvies, with or without a 

 trunk cabin. In Maryland and Virginia it is used in 

 the oyster fisheries, particularly in the vicinity of 

 Chincoteague Island, and \ariatlons are built in New 

 Jersey from Barnegat southward. Now being rather 

 extensively used for pleasure, it is built in lengths from 

 12 to about 40 feet, and for these dimensions is inex- 

 pensive and. when suitably powered, produces a \ery 

 shallow-draft and fast motor boat. 



the stern; the model has a stern as wide as the mid- 

 section. A scmitunnel stern, of rather primitive de- 

 sign, is emjjloycd in this model, following the stern 

 design used in some of the garvies. 



The model is of a rather small boat of the type, 

 measiu'ing 23 feet total length, 6 feet 6 inches beam 

 and 4 feet deep forward, 2 feet aft, and 6 inches draft 

 to chine. Scale is 1 inch to the foot. 



Gift of VV. R. Main, Waretown, New Jersey. 



Motor G.^rvev, a luw-cost craft for fishing and 

 pleasure boating, built about 1950, near Tuckerton, 

 New Jersey. Rigged model USNM 315246. {Smith- 

 sonian photo 45603-a.) 



The model shows a scow-hulled motorboat having 

 slightly flaring sides, a flat bottom with a very slight 

 V in the forward rake, a style of bow called "chicken- 

 breasted" in southern New Jersey. The profile of the 

 hull is like that of a sled; the bow rake is curved, and 

 the bottom profile is straight from the bottom of the 

 rake to the nearly vertical transom. The sheer is 

 straight in the model, but some boats of the type have 

 moderate sheer. The bow is alwavs narrower than 



COLLECTION OF SCREW PROPELLERS and 

 PADDLE-WHEEL MODELS 



The Watercraft Collection contains a series of 

 screw propeller models showing, in general, the de- 

 N'clopmcnt of the screw propeller, though all stages 

 of the development are not covered, the Ericsson 

 designs, as well as some others, being omitted. The 

 following designs are included: Robert Hooke 1681, 

 Joseph Bramah 1785, William Lyttleton 1794, John 

 Stevens (two) 1804, Perkins 1825, Beard 1829, Smith 

 1831, Woodcroft 1832, Burk (two) 1834-35, Smith 

 (two) 1835-36, Burcher 1839, Rennie 1843, Steam- 

 boat 1845, Beard 1853. Swartz 1857, Colborn 1865, 

 Gary and Gary 1875, Tyson 1877, Tanner 1878, 

 Steamboat 1880. Stevens 1889, Steamboat 1890, and 

 Hancock (no date). 



Models of paddle wheels include two showing side 

 wheels and one of a stern paddle wheel. The stern of 

 a screw vessel fitted with two banded propellers, of the 

 Ericsson type, abaft the rudder, and on a single shaft 

 is also part of this exhibit. The paddle-wheel models 

 show details of the housing and dri\e of the various 

 paddle wheels. A number of patent models of pro- 

 pellers or propulsion methods are also in this collection. 



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