Lines of Fishing Schooner 

 Mary Fernald, taken off the 

 builder's half model in the 

 Peabody Museum, Salem. 

 Massachusetts. 



to market. These schooners were sharp and last 

 sailers, ranging from about 20 to 50 gross tons, and the 

 Storm King, a fast sailer, was long considered an excel- 

 lent vessel of her type. Similar smacks were built in 

 Maine for the lobster fishery, and some sloop smacks 

 were also employed in this fishery in Massachusetts 

 and Maine. 



The Storm King was a clipper-built keel schooner 

 having a long and sharp entrance, long and fine run, 

 marked sheer, straight keel with drag, rather upright 

 stem rabbet with long head, and nearly upright post 

 with short covmter and elliptical raking transom. 

 The midsection was formed with a strongly rising 

 floor, high and rather hard bilge, and some tumble- 

 home in the top.side. The deck was flush, with a small 

 trunk cabin aft, and a large fish well was built about 

 amidships, its bottom perforated to allow circulation 

 of salt water. 



Scale of model is % inch to the foot. The Storm King 

 was 53 feet 4 inches at rail, 15 feet 8 inches beam, 7 

 feet 4 inches depth of hold, and drew about 7 feet 6 

 inches at post. 



The bowsprit extended 14 feet 8 inches outside the 

 rabbet, the foremast stood 47 feet 6 inches above the 

 deck and the mainmast 48 feet 3 inches (including 4 

 feet of head ) , and the main topmast was 1 6 feet in total 

 length. The main boom was 38 feet 9 inches, the fore 

 boom 14 feet 8 inches, the fore gaff 13 feet 4 inches, 



Fishing Schooner Atary Fernald 

 built at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 

 in 1875 by Poland and Woodbury. 

 She was designed by Daniel Po- 

 land, Jr. Rigged model U.SNM 

 76246. (S/nlthsonian p/wlo ^^6<)j-k.) 



and the main gaff 17 feet 4 inches. These schooners 

 usually carried a single large jib having a short club 

 at foot, fore and main gaff-sails, gaff-topsail on the 

 main, and a fisherman staysail. They were, as a rule, 

 \-ery heavily canvassed for smacks and usualh' were 

 very stiff under sail. 

 Given by Johnson and Young. 



SCHOONER SMACK, 1875 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76257 



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W. L 



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The schooner-rigged smack Emma W. Lowe was 

 built at Key West, Florida, in 1875 to engage in the 

 market fishery out of that port, supplying the Cuban 

 market at Havana. This was a very profitable 

 business until the Spanish government raised the 

 tariff at Havana, after which the fishery ceased. 

 The Noank schooner smack was introduced at Key 

 ^Vest by New England fishermen, and the schooners 

 built there of nati\e timber for the fishery were on 

 the same model. The Emma W. Lowe is of similar 

 form to the schooner smack City of Havana built at 

 Key West in 1877 on the half-model usnm 76084, 

 though the latter was slightly the smaller of the two. 



The model shows a keel schooner having a long 

 and sharp entrance, a long and fine run, moderate 

 sheer, straight keel with some drag, raking stem rabbet 



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