Fishing Schooner on Marine Rail\vav in the i 88o's 

 at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, showing the typical 

 head work of an Essex-built fisherman of the period. 

 (Smithionian photo ^^-gi .) 



The keel is straight, with drag; the sheer is strong and 

 graceful; and the midsection shows a rising i^oor with 

 very hollow garboards, a hard bilge, and some tumble- 

 home in the topside. The post is nearly vertical, and 

 the stem is curved and raking and fitted with a long- 

 head. 



Scale of the half-model is )^ inch to the foot, pro- 

 ducing a schooner about 78 feet over the rails, 18 feet 

 moulded beam, about 8 feet depth of hold, and draw- 

 ing about 10 feet 6 inches at the post and 6 feet 6 

 inches forward. 



This half-model appears to be Captain Collins" 

 first, very cautious attempt to put his ideas into force. 

 It is basically the shoal clipper schooner of 1880 with 

 about a foot more depth than was usual for a vessel of 

 this class and length in 1883, to allow better for 

 better ballasting and some dead rise in the counter, 

 together with some reduction in width, compared 

 with other schooners of this size. However, no vessel 

 was ever built from the model, and it is doubtful that 

 sufficient depth had been added to give a markedly 

 greater stability than the older vessels possessed. 



Given bv U. S. Fish Commission. 



WELL-SMACK FISHING SCHOONER, 1883 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160116 



This half-model represents one of the designs for a 

 well-smack schooner for fisheries research prepared 

 by C^aptain Josejjh W. Collins in 1883. No vessel was 

 l)uilt from this model. It appears to have been an 

 alternate proposal to half-model usnm UifllLS, and 

 was for a smaller vessel. The improvements incor- 

 porated in this model appear to be an increase in 

 depth and a decrease in ijeam as compared with con- 

 temporary clip]3er fishing schooners of this length, 

 somewhat lighter quarters, and the use of dead rise in 

 the counter. 



The half-model shows a keel schooner having a 

 long, sharp, and rather hollow entrance; the greatest 

 lieam about midlength; a long, flat run with marked 

 quarters, ending in a short counter having some dead 

 rise; and a nearly elliptical transom, sharply raked 

 and, because of its dead rise, somewhat V-shapecl. 

 The post is nearly upright, the stem rabbet is curved 

 and raking, and there is a long graceful head. The 

 floors rise rather sharply, with a slight hollow, and the 

 l)ilge amidships is hard. 



Scale of half-model is '.i inch to the foot, producing 

 a vessel aboiU 65 feet on the rail, 15 feet 6 inches 

 i:)eam, and about 7 feet 9 inches depth of hold. 



Given by LI. S. Fish Commission. 



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