PLANS or nSHINO SCHOONER "MARY rzRNALD^' 



with long head, raking post with V-transom, and 

 flush deck. The midsection is formed with a rising 

 floor, easy bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. 



The deck arrangement shows a wheelbox right aft, 

 forward of this a short trimk cabin, then two wooden 

 pumps each well outboard from the centerline, 

 the mainmast, a hatch, well-grating, hatch, two 

 wooden pumps, foremast, wooden rail-to-rail, jib- 

 sheet horse, windlass, and heel bitt. The model 

 omits the headrail of the long head employed. There 

 are 2 shrouds on each side of each lower mast. 



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

 was about 68 feet at rail, 19 feet beam, and 6 feet 9 

 inches depth in hold. 



The rig is that of a small fore-and-main-topsail 

 schooner having a bowsprit without cap. The vessel 

 carries a single large jib with a short club on the foot, 

 jib topsail, foresail and fore gaff-topsail, mainsail 

 and main gaff-topsail, and fisherman's staysail. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1875 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76246 



M.ary Femald 



The Mary Femald, clipper fishing schooner, was 

 built by Poland & Woodbury at Gloucester for local 

 owners in 1875. She was intended for the summer 

 mackerel fishery (purse-seining) and for the winter 



frozen-lierring trade to the Maritime Provinces. 

 The model shows her ready for mackerel fishing, all 

 sail set, with a seine boat on the port side and a seine 

 stowed in it, and a dory astern. The Fernald is an 

 e.xcellent example of an extreme clipper fishing schoon- 

 er of her date, having the relatively shoal bodv, 

 marked beam, and huge rig that combined to make 

 this class of schooner the cause of such losses during 

 its years of popularity in the New England fisheries. 

 She was wrecked near \Vhitehead. Nova Scotia, in 

 1895 without loss of life. 



The model shows a long sharp entrance, long and 

 very fine run, raking stem with long head, nearly 

 upright post, short counter with wide, raking, ellip- 

 tical transom, good sheer, and straight keel with 

 drag. The midsection has a moderately rising floor, 

 hard bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the topside, 

 a description that fits practically all extreme clipper 

 fishing schooners of her date. 



Scale of model is ?2 inch to the foot. The schooner 

 was 78 feet between perpendiculars, and about the 

 same at rail, 22.8 feet beam, 7.9 feet depth in hold, 

 and 80.29 gross tons. Bowsprit extends 20 feet 6 

 inches outboard of rabbet, jib boom 14 feet 6 inches 

 outside the bowsprit cap, foremast 62 feet 6 inches 

 and mainmast 64 feet above deck, fore-topmast 36 

 feet and main-topmast 36 feet total length, fore boom 

 26 feet, fore gaff 26 feet, main boom 56 feet 6 inches, 



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