Small Mackerel Seiner Oasis. 

 built at VValdoboro, Maine, 1868. 

 {Smithsonian photo 2821^-0.) 



a raking elliptical transom cur\-ecl athwartships. 

 The entrance is long and sharp, with much hollow 

 at forefoot, and the run is rather long and very fine. 

 The midsection is rather heart-shaped, with a sharply 

 rising and somewhat hollow floor, a high and rather 

 hard bilge, and marked tumble-home in the topside. 



Mounted with a pointed head, cutwater, keel, post, 

 and rudder. 



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

 vessel about 55 feet 8'2 inches loetween perpendiculars, 

 59 feet 10 inches moulded length at rail, 17 feet 

 moulded beam, 6 feet 4 inches depth in hold. 9 feet 

 8 inches draft at post and 6 feet 4 inches forward. 



Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, naval architect, and 

 shipbuilder, Chelsea, Massachusetts. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1865 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76241 



Sylp/j 



This model of the fishing schooner Sylph of 1865, 

 showing her as a market fisherman, is the same \essel 

 represented by builder's half-model usnm 76036. 

 Considered an advanced design at her date of build- 

 ing she was much deeper than the average in propor- 

 tion to her length and beam. Her designer and 

 builder, Dennison J. Lawlor, was the pioneer in the 



de\'elopment of safer fishing schooners in this period, 

 designing a number of schooners of more than a\erage 

 depth and dead rise in the years 1865-85. 



Tlic model shows the deck arrangement of a market 

 fisherman of 1860-80, with a wooden windlass right 

 forward, iron jib-sheet horse running across the deck, 

 foremast, slide companionway with supply hatch 

 attached, chimney, fish hatch covered with a slide 

 Ijooby hatch, a break to quarterdeck, mast bitts, 

 mainmast, wooden pumps, trunk cabin with chimney 

 and slide hatch, wheelbox and quarter bitts, and 

 mainsheet horse at extreme stern. 



The topsides are forest green, white band below 

 waist line of bulwarks, white boot top, red copper 

 bottom, rail caps black, carving gilded. The masts 

 rake strongK': the schooner has gaff inainsail and 

 foresail, large jib, main gaff-topsail and main-topmast 

 staysail. 



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



This schooner, nearly 60 feet long at rail, had a 

 mainmast 54 feet deck to cap, foremast 52 feet deck 

 to truck, bowsprit 27 feet total length, 17 feet knight- 

 heads to shoulder of pole. The fore boom was 19 

 feet long, fore gafl^ 18 feet, main boom 47 feet, main 

 gaff 23 feet, and main-topmast 27 feet total length. 

 She had iron ballast inside and carried sail well. 



Given bv U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



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