The model bears the typical pink) riy of the period 

 1815-40; a large single jib hanked to a stay set up 

 on a long pole bowsprit, a rather large foresail with 

 gaff and boom set on a short raking mast, a large 

 mainsail having gafT and boom, and a fidded top- 

 mast on the mainmast. A main-topmast staysail was 

 set on the topmast but no gaff-topsail was usually 

 fitted; the model does not show rigging for the 

 staysail. 



The deck arrangement shows a low, raised cuddy 

 deck forward, handspike windlass, wooden pump 



a jib boom fitted and set a flying jib for the mackerel 

 fishery where weathcrlincss and speed were necessary; 

 during this period, fast pinkies arc reported to have 

 outsailed the clipper sharpshooters in strong winds 

 and gales, particularly on the wind. 

 Given by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



PINKY FISHING SCHOONER, 1832^35 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 34453 



This half-model represents the last type of Massa- 

 chusetts-built pinky clipper. Pinkies were built in 





Gloucester Well-.Smack, Built in 1836, at Essex, 

 Massachusetts. Lines taken of!' the builder's half- 

 model (USNM 54449) of the Glide. 



barrels, wooden chimney plastered inside or bricked, 

 tiller steering, and other characteristics usual on the 

 pinky type of the period. 



Scale of model is Vi inch to the foot. The model is for 

 a vessel 45 feet between perpendiculars, 14 feet beam, 

 6 feet 6 inches depth of hold, 8 feet 6 inches draft at 

 post; bowsprit outboard of knightheads 14 feet, fore- 

 mast stands 34 feet above deck, mainmast stands 38 

 feet above deck, main-topmast 13!i.> feet total length, 

 main boom 30 feet, fore boom 19 feet, fore gaff 17 

 feet, main gaff 20 feet. 



The pinkies built at Essex, Massachusetts, were 

 usually built of very fine white oak and on good 

 models. They lasted well and were regarded as 

 superior sailers; many authorities considered the 

 pinky the most seaworthy type of fishing vessel built. 

 In the 1840's and 1850's, large pinkies sometimes had 



Maine and Nova Scotia as late as 1875 for the inshore 

 fisheries. It was formerly identified as the July or 

 July 4th, built at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1835 by 

 Parker Burnham. The scale of the model is ', inch 

 to the foot, producing a hull about 54 feet 4 inches 

 overall, 51 feet 3 inches between perpendiculars, 

 and 15 feet 6 inches moulded beam; whereas the 

 July was 55 feet 9 inches between perpendiculars, 

 1 5 feet 8 inches extreme beam, 7 feet 1 inch depth in 

 hold, and 54*95 tons. The pinky Splendid, built at 

 Essex in 1832, was 53 feet 10 inches between perpen- 

 diculars, 15 feet 9U inches extreme beam, 6 feet l}^ 

 inches depth of hold, and 48*7^5 tons. The pinky 

 Meridian, built at Essex in 1834, was 53 feet 3 inches 

 between perpendiculars, 1 5 feet 6 inches extreme beam, 

 6 feet 1 1 inches depth of hold, and 50^95 tons. 

 Becau.se of the rough method then used to take ton- 

 nage measurements, precise identification of vessels 

 by this means alone is impossible. It appears that 

 these three pinkies all may have been built from this 



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