Typical Sharpshooter Schooner at the Time the Sharpshooter Was Merging Into the Clipper Model. 

 The Dauntless, built at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1855. Rigged model USNM 76244. Wooden stern davits for 

 a yawl boat, and the standard deck arrangement of the period, can be seen. (Smithsonian photo ^./695-a.) 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1855 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76244 



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(SS 



The fishing schooner Dauntless was Ijuilt at Essex, 

 Massachusetts, about 18.S5, and was lost at sea with 

 all hands, 1 2 men, in 1 870 while making a passage 

 to the Gulf St. Lawrence from Gloucester. 



The model represents a vessel having sharpshooter- 

 clipper lines. The bow is full and round at the rail 

 but sharp at the waterline, the run long and fine. 

 The mid.section is formed with a rising straight floor, 

 a hard turn of bilge, and a slight tumljle-honie in 

 the topside. The keel has much drag, the sheer is 

 rather straight, the stem rabbet is raking and flaring 

 with the head long and pointed, the post rakes 

 slightly, and the counter is short and is finished with 

 a wide, raking transom. 



The masts rake strongly, and the usual long, low 

 quarterdeck is shown. The riding sails are stowed on 

 .stern davits and the dories are lashed bottom up on 

 deck to represent the vessel when ready to make a 

 passage, to or from the Banks, when dory-trawling. 

 All sails are set — jib, flying jib, fore and main gaff- 

 sails, main gaff-topsail, and main-topmast staysail. 



Scale of model is K inch to the foot, producing a 

 vessel about 70 feet overall, 66 feet on the waterline, 



17 feet 6 inches beam, bowsprit 30 feet total length, 

 flying jib boom 32 feet total length, foremast 54 feet 

 above deck, mainmast 56 feet abo\e deck, fore boom 

 24 feet total length, fore gaff 22 feet, main boom 42 

 feet, main gaff' 22 feet, main-topmast 29 feet. 

 Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



CENTERBOARD OYSTER SCHOONER, 1855 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76096 



Snyiny South 



The centerboard schooner Simny South was built 

 from this model at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1855 by 

 William Skinner & .Sons for the oyster fishery. She 

 was also intended to .serve as a freighting schooner. 

 Vessels of this size and type were used for dredging 

 ovsters, transporting farm produce on the Chesa- 

 peake, freighting, and for the Florida and Bahama 

 fruit trade. 



The half-model shows a centerboard schooner with 

 a moderately sharp, con\'e.x entrance, the greatest 

 beam well forward of midlength, and a long, lean, 

 and rather flat run. The hull has good sheer, a 

 straight keel with some drag, a rather upright ijut 

 flaring stem rabbet with a long, pointed, and graceful 

 head, and a raking post with round tuck and upper 

 and lower transoms both very wide and thin, the 

 lower transom almost fair with the end of the run and 



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