usual in the Lawlor-designed schooners, being gen- 

 erally similar to the extreme clipper fishing schooners 

 of the 1870"s. Notable for her swift sailing and 

 ability to carry sail, the Foster was a most successful 

 vessel. 



The half-model represents a schooner having a long, 

 fine and somewhat hollow entrance, and a very long 

 easy run, the greatest beam being abaft midlength. 

 The rise of floor is moderate and the hollow in the 

 garboards is carried forward as well as aft of this 

 section. The bilges are rather low and hard, the 

 sheer is great, the keel straight and with much drag, 

 the post upright and the stem rabbet nearly so, the 

 counter is short, finishing with a shallow, elliptical 

 transom, and the head is rather long and beaked. 

 The model shows a characteristic that marked many 



men in her period; being shallow, wide, very sharp- 

 ended, and heavily canvassed and sparred. Vessels 

 of this design were popular for many years in the New 

 England fishery because they carried a large rig and 

 were stiff and very fast; however they had small 

 ability to right themselves when knocked down, and 

 this weakness resulted in great loss of vessel property 

 and lives from 1865 to 1885. 



The half-model shows a very long, sharp entrance 

 with the greatest beam well aft; a long, flat, and very 

 fine run ending in a short counter of great width and 

 having low quarters; and a transom wide and curved 

 athwartships, strongly raked, and elliptical in shape. 

 The post is rather upright, the stem rabbet rakes and 

 flares, and the head is long and graceful. The keel is 

 straight and with some drag, the sheer is handsome. 



Lines of Extreme Clipper Type New England Fishing .Schooner, the Nimbus, built at Gloucester, Massa- 

 chusetts, in 1872. Taken off builder's half-model U.SNM 57052. 



of the Lawlor designs, maintaining the same dead rise 

 throughout the afterbody from midsection to the 

 counter. 



Scale of model is % inch to the foot, and the scaled 

 dimensions are length over the rail 77 feet, and 

 between perpendicidars 70 feet 6 inches, inoulded 

 beam 20 feet 8 inches, and depth in hold about 6 feet 

 9 inches. 



Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, naval architect and 

 shipbuilder, Chelsea, Massachusetts. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1872 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160111 



David F. Low 



The extreme clipper fishing schooner David F. Low 

 was built from this model at Gloucester for local 

 owners in 1872, for the market and mackerel fisheries. 

 The Low was representative of the design of fast fisher- 



The midsection shows a rising floor, a slightly hollow 

 and very hard bilge, and some tumble-home in the 

 topsides. The beam is carried well aft. The shoal 

 hull is made weatherly by use of a very deep keel out- 

 side the rabbet; in fact, the model resembles that of a 

 centerboard-hull with a fixed straight keel substituted 

 for the centerboard. 



Scale of the half-model is '.i inch to the foot, repre- 

 senting a schooner approxiinately 79 feet 6 inches 

 long on the rail, 74 feet betw'een perpendiculars, 21 

 feet beam, 7 feet depth of hold, 57.73 net tons. 



Gi\-en by Captain E. L. Rowe, Gloucester. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1872 

 Rigged Model, usnm 39337 



Mary O'Dell 



The Mary O'Dell was built in 1872 at Bath, Maine, 

 for the New Ena;land market fishery. Schooners of 



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