These Maine schooners usually had a rather short 

 quarterdeck but otherwise resembled the Massa- 

 chusetts-built schooners of their period. 



Given by H. H. Buck. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1858 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54471 



We're Here 



A fishing schooner modeled particularly for the 

 mackerel fishery was built from this model at Essex, 

 Massachusetts by Daniel A. and Willard R. Burnham 

 in 1858 and named the UVre Hire. A fast-sailing 

 vessel, she was employed in the mackerel fishery 

 in summer and in the New Orleans and Gulf of Mex- 

 ico fruit trade in winter. She was captured at New 

 Orleans at the outbreak of the Ci\il \Var and is said 

 to have been used as a blockade runner. 



Model is painted in the fashion of the time — dark 

 green; along the waist a multicolored stripe of white, 

 yellow, red. white: trailboards with gilded and 

 painted car\ings; billet head gilded; bottom red 

 copper paint. 



The half-model shows a clipper fishing schooner of 

 moderate sheer, having; a straight keel with much 

 drag, a sharp entrance, and a long, easy run. the 

 greatest beam being slightly forward of midlength. 

 The bow rakes and flares forward at rabbet, the post 

 rakes, and the counter is moderately long, ending 

 with a raking elliptical transom much cur\ed 

 athwartships and quite wide. The rising straight 

 floors are brought well out and the bilge is high and 

 hard. 



The Register dimensions of the JVe're Here were 

 67 feet length between perpendiculars, 20 feet beam, 

 7 feet 5 inches depth of hold. 83 "^95 tons, square 

 stern, Ijillet head. The half-model is to a scale of 

 li inch to the foot, and produces a vessel measuring 

 66^2 feet between perpendiculars, 20 feet 6 inches 

 moulded beam, about 6 feet 10 inches depth of hold, 

 and drawing about 8 feet 10 inches at post and about 

 6 feet 10 inches forward. 



Given by Willard R. Burnham, shi])builder, Essex, 

 Massachusetts. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY PUNGY SCHOONER, 1858 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160120 



Mary and Ellen 



The pungy schooner Mary and Ellen was built from 

 this model at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1858, by 

 William Skinner and Son for the oyster fishery and 

 freighting on the Chesapeake. The pungy schooner 



had the general form of the old Baltimore clipper or 

 pilot boat that had developed on the Chesapeake in 

 colonial times. The pungy was a shallow-draught 

 keel schooner, with rising floor amidships, strongly 

 raked ends, and fine lines, designed for swift sailing. 

 Schooners of this type were used on the Chesapeake 

 in the oyster fishery as dredgers and to transport 

 the catch; they were also employed in general 

 freighting, carrying goods and farm products on the 

 Chesapeake, fruit in the Baltimore-Bahamas trade, 

 and oysters to New England. It is thought that the 

 pungy, which is now extinct on the Chesapeake, 

 introduced the sharp-model schooner into the New 

 England fishing fleet. 



The half-model represents a schooner having rather 

 straight sheer, straight keel with marked drag, strongly 

 raking sternpost and raking, curved stem rabbet. 

 The transom is of the old style round-tuck form, with 

 upper and lower transoms joining at an angle. The 

 bottom of the lower transom is straight across the 

 top of the sternpost, forming a cross seam at right 

 angles to the post. This T-shape w-as characteristic of 

 the pungy throughout the existence of the type. The 

 lower transom is not plainly shown in this model, 

 however, and judging by the form it must hav-e stood 

 at more of an angle than in later pungy schooners. 

 Usually, in this type, the lower transom was almost 

 parallel to the load waterline. The greatest beam is 

 forward of amidships and the entrance is long and 

 sharp: the run quite fine. The midsection shows 

 straight, rising floors carried well out and a somewhat 

 high, round bilge, the rounding carried almost to deck 

 level. The stern is wide and shallow; the quarters 

 being rather thin. The stern overhang is very short. 

 The stem is formed with a long and pointed head a 

 little less exaggerated in the model than in the later 

 pungy schooners. It is not known when the long- 

 head replaced the short and deep head that first 

 marked the Chesapeake Bay schooners, but appar- 

 ently this occurred in the 1840's and the fashion 

 spread to New England. 



.Scale of the model is Y^ inch to the foot, and the 

 vessel measured about 64 feet 10 inches over the rail, 

 about 20 feet moulded beam, and drew 7 feet at the 

 post and 3 feet 6 inches forward. 



The pungy schooner type is represented by two 

 rigged models in the VVatercraft Collection. Lines 

 plan of the Mary and Ellen is Survey no. 5-56 in The 

 Historic American Merchant Marine Survey. 



Given by William Skinner & Son, shipbuilders. 

 Baltimore, Maryland. 



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