FISHING SCHOONER, 1892 

 Exhibition Half-Model, usnm 310887 



James S Steele^ Kicbard C. Steele 



An exhibition half-model was made from plans of 

 the first fishing' schooners designed by Thomas F. 

 McManus of Boston, Massachusetts. These were 

 Iniilt at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1892. Their design 

 was an extreme one for the date, as the vessels were 

 very yacht-like in form. The two schooners, both flush 

 decked, built to this design were the James S. Steele 

 and the Richard C. Steele. The vessels were considered 

 fast but lacking in ability to carry sail and so the design 

 was not again used. The schooners were employed 

 as market boats and in the mackerel fishery. The 

 James S. Steele is said to have rolled over on her side 

 on one occasion, spilling her crew and deck load of 

 fish into the water, but as boats were towing astern 

 the crew managed to save themselves. 



The half-model shows a schooner having a strongly 

 rockered keel and rabbet, without any straight por- 

 tion in the shoe. The post rakes sharply and the 

 counter is unusually long and narrow for the date. 



ending with a very small V-shaped transom. The 

 bow at rabbet and cutwater fairs gradually into the 

 keel, giving a marked forward overhang. The stem 

 has a small gammon-knee. The sheer is marked, 

 The entrance is long, sharp, and slightly convex; and 

 the run is very fine, with straight buttocks. The mid- 

 section shows a sharply rising floor with much hollow 

 at the garboard, a slack, easy bilge, and tumble-home 

 in the topside. 



The James S. Steele registered 78.46 gross tons, and 

 was 88 feet between perpendiculars, 23 feet beam, and 

 10.4 feet in the hold. Scale of the model is ]{ inch to 

 the foot, producing a vessel 98 feet 6 inches over the 

 rail, 21 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 13 feet 6 

 inches draft at greatest depth of shoe. 



Given by Thomas F. McManus, naval architect, 

 Boston, Massachusetts. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1899 

 Rigged Model, usnm 285030 



John J. Flaherty 



The fishing schooner John J. Flaherty of Gloucester 

 built at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1899 for the Grand 



Cod Fishing Schooner John J. 

 Flaherty, 1899, an excellent ex- 

 ample of the last clipper-bowed 

 schooners built for the fisheries. 

 Rigged model USNM 285030. 

 (Smithsonian photo 4^6g2-) 



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