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New England Sharpshooter Market-Boat Schooner of 1856. 

 54435- 



Taken off builder's half-model USNM 



Scale of the model is % inch to the foot. This 

 would produce a vessel about 63 feet 6 inches between 

 perpendiculars, 18 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 

 about 8 feet 6 inches draft at post. The J. Coolidge 

 measured 65 feet between perpendiculars, 19 feet 6 

 inches extreme beam, 7 feet depth in hold, and 

 52.75 tons register. 



Given by Newell B. Coolidge, 1 894. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1856 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54435 



Kipple 



The market boat Ripple was reputedly built from 

 this model, lengthened 6 feet, at Essex, Massachu- 

 setts, by Joseph Story in 1856. The Ripple was a 

 notable sailer and she is said to have been the first 

 schooner built at Essex with the elliptical transom 

 which subsequently became standard. Her lines were 

 copied by other builders with such alterations as were 

 thought to ije improNements; it may Ije said, howe\'er, 

 that this model represents the sharpshooter, or file- 

 bottom, market-boat at its highest state of develop- 

 ment. The Ripple was burned at sea in 1863 ijy the 

 Confederate States cruiser Tacony. 



The half-model represents a clipper schooner having 

 a short but sharp entrance and a very long and fine 

 run, the greatest beam being somewhat forward of 

 midlength, a raking post and short counter with an 

 elliptical transom having a strong curve athwartships, 

 a stem with a long and pointed head, marked sheer, 

 and a straight keel having a strong drag. The mid- 

 section shows a sharply rising straight floor carried 

 well outboard, a high and markedly hard Ijilge, and a 



slight tumble-home in the topside. The fore sections 

 show heavy flare. 



Scale of model is ]!, inch to the fool, producing a 

 schooner 54 feet 2 inches between perpendiculars, 17 

 feet 8 inches moulded beam, and about 6 feet depth 

 of hold. The register dimensions of the Ripple were 

 61 feet between perpendiculars, 18 feet 8 inches beam, 

 6 feet 7 inches depth of hold, and 64 '^5 tons. Cus- 

 tom House records show a billethead, square stern, 

 and no galleries. 



Given by Joseph Story, shipbuilder, Essex, Massa- 

 chusetts, 1882. 



FISHING SCHOONERS, 1857 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54448 



George Fogg, Etta G. Fogg 



The clipper fishing schooners George Fogg and Elta 

 G. Fogg were built from this half-model at Essex, 

 Massachusetts, by Charles O. Story in 1857. They 

 were built for Wellfleet owners and were intended for 

 the mackerel fishery in summer and for freighting 

 oysters from the Chesapeake to that port in winter, 

 trades that required smart, fast sailers, and the sister- 

 schooners were considered good designs and large for 

 their time and business. Because of the shoal-water 

 operations of the oyster business, they were of rela- 

 tively shallow draft for keel vessels. This model 

 appears to have been one of the earliest designs of the 

 shoal, clipper type of New England fishing schooner. 



The half-model shows an extreme clipper fishing 

 schooner of the date of build, having slight sheer, a 

 straight keel with moderate drag, stem rabbet flaring, 

 raking, and with small rounded forefoot, nearly up- 



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