A LITE >>IZL or Tui; Iurlstavsail, Called tul ■Jumbo," on This Macklrll Sllnlr, ilic MubU DiUuway, 

 photographed in 1882. {Smithsonian photo ^^75i->-/.) 



and Hugh Bishop for the purse-seine mackerel fishery 

 and the winter frozen herring trade to the Province ol 

 New Brunswick. 



The model represents an extreme clipper fishing 

 schooner of the date, but with rather less flare forward 

 than was usual, with a long, sharp entrance and a long 

 and very fine run, raking stem rabbet with long head, 

 straight keel with drag, nearly upright sternpost, 

 and a short counter finishing with a raking elliptical 

 transom curved athwartships. The sheer is strong. 

 Midsection shows a strongly rising, slightly hollow 

 floor, a moderately easy bilge, and a slight tumble- 

 home in the topside. There is a long, low quarter- 

 deck. 



The model is shown with all sail set: mainsail, fore- 

 sail, jumbo, jib, and jib topsail, fore and main gaff- 

 topsails and main-topmast staysail. 



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

 measured 80 feet at rail, 22 feet beam, 7 feet depth of 

 hold, and 74.65 gross tons. 



The bowsprit extended 18 feet from rabbet, jib 

 boom outside cap 12 feet, main boom 56 feet, fore- 



topmast truck 84 feet, and main-topmast truck 85 

 feet above deck. This model gives a good idea of the 

 quantity of sail carried in this class of fishing schooner. 

 Headrails are missing and appear not to have been 

 made, although the vessel actually had these supports 

 to her long head. Otherwise, the model is very 

 complete. 



From John Bishop, shipisuilder, Gloucester, 

 Massachusetts. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1879 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54444 



Ivanhoe 



The extreme clipper fishing schooner Ivanhoe was 

 built from this model at Gloucester, Massachusetts, by 

 Poland and ^Voodbu^y in 1879 for local owners. Her 

 model, made by Daniel Poland, is the very shallow, 

 wide, sharp-ended type that predominated in the Now 

 England fisheries at the time. These schooners de- 

 pended largely upon initial stability, to withstand a 

 knockdown, as they usually could carry litde ballast 

 (commonly stone), but they were often very fast and 



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