the upper well curved athwartships. Midsection has 

 a sHghtly rising floor carried well out in a straight 

 line, a quick, low bilge, and slightly rounded top- 

 sides. 



The vessels had a long and low quarterdeck with 

 open rail and trunk cabin well aft, raking masts, 

 with the mainmast to port of the hull's centerline 

 and the centerboard slot to starboard, with center- 

 board lanyard to block at mainmast hounds and 

 thence to deck belay. 



Scale of half-model is U inch to the foot, producing 

 a vessel 74 feet 9 inches at the rail, 71 feet between 

 perpendiculars, 22 feet moulded beam, 5 feet 3 inches 

 depth of hold, and draft 6 feet 6 inches at post and 

 4 feet 4 inches forward. 



Given by William Skinner & Sons, Shipbuilders, 

 Baltimore, Maryland. ' 



low, hard bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the top- 

 side. The vessel .sat low in the water and her masts 

 had much rake, her ccnteri)oard was large and passed 

 through the garboard on one side of the keel. 



Scale of the model is one-half inch to the foot, pro- 

 ducing a schooner about 63 feet 6 inches long at rail, 

 about 61 feet between perpendiculars, 19 feet 4 inches 

 moulded beam, about 5 feet 6 inches moulded depth, 

 and drawing 6 feet at post and 5 feet forward. 



Given Ijy William Skinner & Sons, shipbuilders, 

 Baltimore. Maryland. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY FISHING PUNGY, about 1885 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 312331 



An unidentified pungy was built from this half- 

 model in Dorchester County, Maryland, about 1885 

 by Joseph T. Spicer for the oyster fishery and general 



/'ffJVOY 



Lines of a Typical Chesapeake Bay Pungy' Schooner of .About 1885. Taken off builder's half-model 

 USNM 31 2331. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTER SCHOONER, 1855 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76097 



The centerboard schooner Breeze was built from this 

 half-model at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1855 b\- Wil- 

 liam Skinner & Sons for the oyster fishery. She was 

 intended to serve as a smart-sailing oyster "buy boat"' 

 for transporting the catch to market, and to he a 

 swift, weatherly vessel. 



The model shows a shoal-draft centerboard schooner, 

 having a straight keel with slight drag, an upright post 

 and round-tuck stern with upper and lower transom.s, 

 stem upright at rabbet and adorned with a long, 

 pointed head, the sheer moderate, entrance short but 

 fairly sharp, with the greatest beam well forward, and 

 the run long and \'ery easy. The midsection shows 

 a slightly rising straight floor carried well outward to a 



freighting. The donor thought it to be the John 

 Ronletl, but the partially illegible name '^Elizabeth J. 

 . . . son' appears on the stern. 



The half-model is of a typical pungy, designed for 

 swift sailing, of the Baltimore clipper type. It repre- 

 sents the moulded lines, to underside of deck, of a 

 rather wide and shallow-draft keel schooner hull 

 having moderate sheer, a straight keel with some drag, 

 strongly raking curved stem rabbet, moderately raking 

 post and a wide and thin square stern. Since the 

 model is to the deck only, it does not show the typical 

 double-transom of the pungy construction but this 

 would be utilized, as also would the long head of her 

 type. The entrance is sharp but rather short, the 

 greatest beam being well forward of midlength. and 

 the run is long and fine, ending in the usual round tuck 

 of the pungv. The midsection shows a slightly rising 

 straight floor, a well rounded bilge, and a remarkably 



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