Lines of a Key West Schooner 

 Smack of the Noank Model, the 

 City of Havana, built at Key West, 

 Florida, in 1877. Taken ofl' build- 

 er's half-model USNM 76084. 



Sail Plan of the fishing schooner 

 Mary Fenia/d, from a copy of the 

 sailmaker's plans in the VVatercraft 

 Collection. 



and main gaff 28 feet 6 inches. The seine Ijoat is 

 36 feet 6 inches overall and 8 feet 6 inches beam. 

 Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1875 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160121 



Li\7^ie W. Marheso)i 



The 3-masted fishint; schooner Lizzie f'. Matheson 

 of ProN'incetovvn, Massachusetts, was Ijuilt from this 

 model at Essex by John James & C^ompany in 1875. 

 Biu'densome but capatile of sailing? very well, she was 

 intended for the hand-line codfishery on the Grand 

 Banks, where she was employed during' each sum- 

 mer; during the winter she ran to the West Indies or 

 went coastwise, freighting. The Matheson is consid- 

 ered to be the first schooner of her rig regularly em- 

 ployed in the New England fishery. A 3-masted 

 pinky schooner, the Spy. had been built at Esse.x in 

 1823 (she measvired 70 feet Ijetween perpendiculars, 

 17 feet iieam, 8 feet 6 inches depth of hold, and 91 ^'95 

 tons, pink stern, three masts, no galleries, no head) 

 and was intended for the Banks fishery, but it does not 

 appear she was ever so employed. The Matheson 

 proved successful and was followed by a numljcr of 3- 

 masters, among them the Willie A. McKay, 1880, 

 Henry S. Woodruff, 1886. Arthur ]'. S. Woodruff, 1888, 

 and Cora S. McKay, 1888. all i)uilt ijy James at Essex. 

 Later still, others were built, though the 3-master was 

 never very popular in the fisheries. When the salt 

 fishery ijecame unprofitable, some of these 3-masters 



went into other fisheries. The Woodruff, for example, 

 became a whaler. The Matheson was lost in the West 

 Indies in 1895. 



The half-model shows a rather shallow, broad hull 

 of the coaster type, rather sharp in the entrance and 

 with a short but fine run. The midsection shows a 

 slightly rising floor, low hard bilge, and slight tumble- 

 home abo\c. The sheer is strong, the keel is straight 

 and with a slight drag, the stem rakes, and the post is 

 nearly vertical. The vessel had a long, low quarter- 

 deck carried a little foi"ward of the mainmast. She 

 had a graceful longhead and a short counter ha\ing a 

 broad elliptical transom. 



Scale of model is K inch to the foot. The Matheson 

 was 106 feet 8 inches over the rail, 99 feet 5 inches 

 betw-een perpendiculars, 24 feet 6 inches moulded 

 beam, 10 feet 6 inches depth of hold, and drew 11 

 feet at the post and 9 feet 6 inches forward. 



Her rig was that of a 3-masted coaster of the time, 

 but with the bowsprit less stived and with more sail 

 area. A rigged model of a 3-masted fishing schooner 

 is in the W^atcrcraft Collection (usmn 160211, see 

 p. 220). 



Gi\en by H. & S. Cook. Provincetown, Massachusetts. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1876 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54447 



Webster Sanborn 



The Banker Webster Sanborn was built from this half- 

 model at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1876 bv David 



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