tution (1878-87), was built at Essex in 1882 for 

 Gloucester, Massachusetts owners by Arthur Dana 

 Story. She was designed for the general deep-sea 

 fisheries but particularly for the Grand Banks cod- 

 fishery. 



The model shows a clipper fishing schooner in 

 general hull design, but of somewhat greater capacity 

 than the extreme clipper design of her time, having 

 a straight keel with drag, raking stem rabbet, a long- 

 head, nearly upright post, and a short and rather 

 heavy counter with a wide, raking, and curved ellip- 



Gloucester Harbor in the i88o's, showing typical 

 fishing schooners and a salt-carrying bark. A 2- 

 masted lobster boat is in the right foreground. {Smith- 

 sonian phiilo 42816-e.) 



Medium-Sized Gloucester Fishing Schooner, the 

 Laura Sayward, 1882, showing stern davits for a yawl 

 boat. {Smithsonian photo 4^Siy-d^ 



lical transom. The quarters are heavy as in most of 

 her type and period. The sheer is marked, the en- 

 trance long and sharp, and the run long and fine. 

 The midsection is formed with a rising straight floor, 

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



The Baird measured 78.6 feet between perpendicu- 

 lars, 22 feet beam, 8 feet depth of hold, and 78.04 

 gross tons. She was about 86 feet at rail. Her 

 bowsprit was 19 feet outboard from rabbet, jib-boom 

 12 feet 8 inches outside of bowsprit cap, foremast 

 64 feet and mainmast 65 feet above deck, main-top- 

 mast 36 feet total length, main boom 62 feet, fore- 

 boom 25 feet, fore gaff 25 feet, main gaff 27 feet 6 

 inches. 



Model shows vessel without a fore-topmast, with all 

 sail set, and with dories stowed upside down on deck 

 and lashed to represent the vessel ready for a passage 

 to or from the Grand Banks. This model is a good 

 example of a clipper-built Grand Banks schooner of 

 1880-85. .Scale is )'._ inch to the foot. 



Purchased from John Bishop, shipbuilder, Glouces- 

 ter, Massachusetts. 



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