Sail Plan of the fishing schooner 

 Fredonia, buih in 1889, showing the 

 spike bowsprit and small foresail 

 then popular. From a probable 

 copy of the plan of the designer 

 Edward Burgess. 



fore-topmast 34 feet in total length, mainmast 70 

 feet 3 inches above deck, the main-topmast 41 feet 

 total length, main boom 68 feet 6 inches long, main 

 gafT 38 feet, fore boom 29 feet, and fore gaflT 28 feet 

 6 inches. 

 Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



WELL-SMACK FISHING SCHOONER, 1890 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 57051 



A proposal for an improved well-smack fishing 

 schooner made by Captain Joseph W. Collins of the 

 LI. S. Fish Commission in 1890, and one of the series 

 of designs proposed by him from 1883 to 1892, this 

 model was the first referred to as the .New Era: no 

 vessel was built to the design. 



The half-model shows a schooner having a long, 

 sharp entrance with some hollow abaft the stem, a 

 long flat run, straight keel with some drag, raking 

 and curved stem rabbet decorated with a longhead, 

 an upright sternpost, moderate length of coimter, a 

 raking, V-shaped, and elliptical transom, handsome 

 sheer, long quarterdeck, the greatest beam abaft mid- 

 length, and the midsection showing a rising hollow 

 floor, a high hard bilge and tumble-home in the top- 

 side. The model shows somewhat more dead rise and 

 depth than most schooners built in the 1880's. The 

 design was intended to be built as a well-smack and 

 was peculiar in that the mainmast was to be stepped 

 on the after wall of the well, which gave that mast a 

 very short bury below the quarterdeck. 



The scale of the half-model is '0 inch to the foot. 



The \'essel would have been about 86 feet on the rail, 

 22 feet 6 inches moulded beam, 8 feet 3 inches depth 

 of hold, and would draw about 10 feet 6 inches at post. 

 She would have registered between 80 and 85 tons. 

 Given by L^. S. Fish C'ommission. 



FISHING KETCH TRAWLER, 1891 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76288 



Resolute 



The ketch-rigged beam trawler Resolute of Glouces- 

 ter was built from this half-model by Arthur Dana 

 Story at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1891 as an experi- 

 ment in beam-trawling in the New England fisheries. 

 She was designed by her builder as a copy of the 

 English ketch trawlers then in use, and was the first 

 modern ketch-rigged fisherman to be built in New 

 England. The Resolute caught large quantities of 

 bottom fish in her trawl but their very low market 

 prices and the frecjuent loss or damage to the trawl- 

 gear caused her owners to abandon this method of 

 fishing, as in the earlier experiment at Boston with the 

 schooner Svlph. One of two unsuccessful attempts to 

 introduce the ketch rig into the New England offshore 

 fisheries while sail was employed, her ketch rig did not 

 produce a fast enough sailer, so she was resparred and 

 rigged as a schooner and employed as a dory fisher- 

 man. 



The half-model shows a flush-decked vessel having 

 a rather straight sheer, straight keel with drag, a 

 straight, upright stem rabbet with a small round at 

 forefoot, raking post with a short counter and ending 



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