upper-and-lower transom with round tuck, full round 

 entrance, and a short, full run. Midsection formed 

 with some rise in the straight floor, a low and full 

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



Mounted with short, heavy cutwater, head, keel, 

 post, and rudder. 



The model shows a vessel about 58 feet moulded 

 length at rail, 16 feet 6 inches beam, and about 7 feet 

 moulded depth. Scale of model '^ inch to the foot. 



Given liy Louis King, shipbuilder, Lamoine, Maine. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1848 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76248 



David R. Proctor 



This model is of the David R. Proctor, also repre- 

 sented by the builder's half-model USNM 76295. 

 The vessel is shown with sails furled in harbor stow 

 and with splitting table and dressing tubs in position 

 on deck, as she might appear when at anchor in a 

 Labrador harbor. The standard deck arrangement 

 of a codfishing schooner of the 1840's is shown, with 

 the wooden stern davits for a yawl boat and other 

 characteristic fittings. 



The vessel, like nearly all of her type at the time, 

 carried no jib boom or fore-topmast and set a large 

 jib, boomed fore and main gaff-sails and a main-top- 

 mast staysail. When engaged in winter codfishing 

 on Georges Bank, no topmast was carried. However, 

 if a codfishing schooner were fitted for the summer 

 mackerel fishery, she would be rigged with a jib 

 boom and fore and main topmasts, carrying gaff-top- 

 sails and jib topsail in addition to her codfishing rig. 



The Proctor was a vessel about 58 feet long at rail; 

 her bowsprit extended 20 feet outside the stem rabbet 

 or knightheads, the foremast stood 50 feet 6 inches 

 above deck, and the mainmast was 51 feet long. The 

 main-topmast was 26 feet total length, the main boom 

 was 38 feet long, fore boom 19 feet 6 inches, main 

 gaff 21 feet 6 inches and the fore gaff 19 feet. Scale of 

 model is ]'2 inch to the foot. 



Given by L'. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1845-50 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54450 



This half-model of an early sharpshooter market- 

 boat bears the name Elisha Holmes on the stern. 

 A rigged model of the Holmes (usnm 76247), 

 in the Watercraft Collection, is described below. 

 The Elisha Holmes was built at Essex, Massa- 

 chusetts, in 1849 by Jeremiah Burnham. Her 



registry dimensions were 67 feet 5 inches between 

 perpendiculars, 18 feet ?>% inches beam, 7 feet 4 inches 

 depth of hold, and 8IM95 tons. The half-model, 

 on a scale of ,'2 inch to the foot would produce a vessel 

 63 feet 9 inches between perpendiculars, 18 feet 6 

 inches moulded beam, and about 6 feet 9 inches depth 

 of hold. The bulwarks indicated by the top lift of the 

 model are unusually deep, so that they would be 30 

 inches high instead of the usual 26 inches. By reduc- 

 ing their height to 26 inches and raising the deck 4 

 inches, the dimensions of the model would be nearly 

 those of the Elisha Holmes, so that if the half-model is 

 not for this schooner, it is for one of the same form and 

 period. 



The schooner represented by the model would have 

 a straight keel of marked drag; a curved, raking, and 

 flaring stem I'abbct fitted with a rather long and 

 pointed head; a raking sternpost with a round tuck 

 and upper and lower transoms, both flat athwartships, 

 the upper raking and the lower curved in profile; 

 rather straight sheer and the indicated quarterdeck 

 low and long; a short and sharp entrance; and a long, 

 easy run. The midsection is formed with a rising 

 straight floor of short length, an easy bilge gradually 

 hardening outboard, and a nearly upright topside 

 with only a slight tumble-home. The flare forward 

 is very marked and the rail is very round in plan; the 

 stern is wide in proportion to the beam. The model 

 represents an early design of sharpshooter and was 

 intended to produce a fast sailer. 



Given by L^ .S. Fish Commission. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1849-50 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76247 



Elisha Holmes 



This rigged model of an early sharpshooter fishing 

 schooner was reconstructed, using the half-model 

 USNM 54450, above, for hull lines and a sailmaker's 

 drawing of the sails of the Elisha Holmes. The 

 identification of the half-model is doubtful but that 

 model and the rigged one do represent a typical 

 sharpshooter of the date. The Holmes was built at 

 Essex, Massachusetts, in 1849 by Jeremiah Burnham 

 and her register dimensions were 67 feet 5 inches 

 between perpendiculars, 18 feet S'i inches beam, 

 7 feet 4 inches depth in hold, and 81';'95 tons. 



The scale of the model is Ji inch to the foot. This 

 would produce a vessel having a length on rail of 

 67 feet, beam 18 feet, depth in hold 7}i feet, and 

 draft at post of about 8 feet 3 inches. At this scale 

 the bowsprit length overall is 32 feet, the foremast 



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