Fishing Schooner Rob Roy built at 

 Essex, Massachusetts, in 1900, one 

 of the early fishing schooners de- 

 signed with a long bow overhang 

 and short keel. For a view afore, 

 seep. 173. Rigged model USNM 

 298232. (Smithsonian photo 4^g^6.) 



Banks codfishery and for the winter frozen-herring 

 trade, represents an adaption of the Fredonia model 

 to produce a large Banker combining speed with 

 capacity. The model shows the schooner under full 

 sail, ready for a passage to or from the Banks. She 

 was reported to be able to carry 600,000 poiuids of 

 cod or 2200 barrels of herring. She was designed 

 by Captain George M. McLain of Rockport, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



The Flaherty was a keel schooner having a sharp, 

 long entrance and a moderately long and fine run, a 

 straight keel with much drag and a shallow forefoot, 

 raking stem rabbet with small gammon-knee head, 

 and a raking post with short, high counter, narrow in 

 width and ending in a sharply raking V-transom. 

 Her sheer was great and the midsection showed a 

 sharp floor, a high and rather hard bilge, and a 

 slight tumble-home in the topside. 



Scale of model is }■■, inch to the foot. The vessel was 

 122 feet at rail, 102 feet at designed waterline, 25 feet 

 6 inches beam, 12 feet 6 inches depth in hold, and 

 166.35 gross tons. Her bowsprit extended out 36 

 feet from rabbet, foremast (including 10 feet of head) 

 64 feet above deck, fore-topmast 39 feet total length, 

 fore boom 30 feet 6 inches, fore gaff 30 feet, main- 

 mast (including 10 feet of head) 76 feet above deck, 

 main-topmast 44 feet total length, main boom 70 feet, 

 main gaff 39 feet 6 inches, and jumbo boom, or club, 

 28 feet. 



Gi\en by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1900 

 Rigged Model, usnm 285031 



Senator Gardner 



The fishing schooner Senator Gardner, designed by 

 Captain George M. McLain, was built at Essex, 



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