horse; some of these boats had histead the double 

 sheet of the large schooners. 



Some of the dogbodies were clipper built, with 

 fine lines and much dead rise, and at least one dogbody 

 was a privateer in the early part of the War of 1812. 

 It seems apparent that many of the larger dogbodies 

 were converted to schooner rig and that the square- 

 sterned boat did not survi\e in the Massachusetts 

 Bay fisheries as long as did the pink-sterned Che- 

 baccos. Nevertheless, in ri\er boats the rig and hull 

 combination lasted well into the last half of the 19th 

 century, as the dogbody's rig and the square-sterned 

 hull can be seen in prints of Hudson River towns, 

 though the hulls may have had centerboards. It 

 is known that such craft were employed on Maine 

 rivers well into the last half of the 19th century, and 

 the St. John River wood boat of New Brunswick, 

 Canada, lasted into the early years of the present 

 century. It may be well to note that the St. John 

 boat had a stem with tumble-home in some cases 

 like the old ram's head boat, and to the last of the 

 type retained the high stem, square stern, and gen- 

 eral model of the dogbody Chebacco. It is probable 

 that all were descendants of the old square-sterned 

 shallop of colonial times, though the form of the 

 Canadian boat possibly was brought into New 

 Brunswick by the Loyalists from Massachusetts. 

 Given by U. .S. Fish Commission. 



Typical Mass.'^chusetts Fishing Pinky Essex, built at 

 Essex, Massachusetts, 1821. Redrawn from incom- 

 plete plans, apparently made from the half-model, in 

 the VVatercraft Collection. 



OLD-STYLE NEW ENGLAND FISHING SCHOON- 

 ER, about 1820 

 Rigged Model, usnm 57585 



The model, intended to represent a Marblehead 

 fishing schooner of about 1820 employed in the 

 Grand Banks codfishery, shows a schooner with a 

 high quarterdeck that is, in general form at least, 

 intermediate between the early Marblehead schooner 

 with a short, high quarterdeck and the New England 

 fishing schooner of the 1830's with a short, low 

 quarterdeck. She has an unusually long quarter- 

 deck for her time and this must have been intended 

 for handline fishing, employing the quarterdeck only. 

 The vessel is identified as the Open Sea but this schooner 

 has not been found in the Customhouse records. 



The model shows a "full" schooner, having a short, 

 full entrance and a short, full run with a long dead 

 flat between. The sheer is strong, the keel straight 

 and with some drag, the stem rabbet curved, and a 

 gammon knee is shown. The post rakes slightly. 

 The mid.section shows a slightly rising floor, a low, 

 full, round bilge, and a nearly vertical topside. 

 The round-tuck stern has square upper and lower 

 transoms, and the quarters are rather heavy. 



Deck of the model shows a handspike windlass, 

 fore-boom crutch, wooden pump barrels, a yawl 

 boat on wooden stern davits, steps to the quarterdeck, 

 and the usual hatches and companions of the period. 



At }{, inch to the foot the model scales 65 feet over 

 rails, 18 feet beam, and 8 feet draft at post; the 

 bowsprit extends outboard 15}^ feet, foremast stands 

 43J^ feet above deck, and mainmast stands 45}^ feet; 



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