Massachusetts, in 1900 for Gloucester owners for the 

 summer mackerel fishery and the winter frozen- 

 herring trade between the Maritime Pro\inces and 

 New England. However, she was also designed to 

 serve in all branches of the New England fisheries if 

 occasion demanded. The model, representing a type 

 popular in these fisheries between 1893 and 1906, 

 shows this schooner ready for a mackerel fishery 

 cruise, seine boat on deck and seine stowed ready to 

 be taken into the boat. 



The Gardner was a schooner cf the Frcdonia model 

 with some modifications, ha\ing the keel straight 

 with much drag; the stem rabbet raking, cur\ed. and 

 slightly flaring; the cutwater adorned with a small 

 gammon-knee head; the posts raking; and the counter 

 rather narrow and with sharply raking transcm; the 

 sheer marked; and the midsection formed with a 

 sharply rising floor, moderately hard bilge, and a 

 slight tumble-home in the topside. The keel shoe was 

 more curved than the rabbet and the deadwood out- 

 side the keel rabbet deeper than in schooners of 20 

 years earlier in design. 



Scale of model is !i inch to the foot, at which scale 

 the length of the Senator Gardner was 114 feet at rail 

 and about 92 feet at designed waterline, beam 25 feet, 

 depth in hold 11 feet 6 inches, and her tonnage 135 

 gross. The bowsprit outboard of rabbet was 30 

 feet, foremast above deck 65 feet, fore-topmast 42 feet 

 total length, mainmast 70 feet above deck, main- 

 topmast 44 feet total length, main boom 67 feet, 

 main gaff 37 feet, fore boom 31 feet, fore gafl~ 32 feet, 

 and jumbo boom 27 feet. Seine boat was 40 feet 

 long and 8 feet 6 inches beam, its greatest beam 

 to a noticeable degree forward of midlength. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FISHING SCHOONER, 1900 

 Rigged Model, usnm 298232 



Kob Koy 



The fishing schooner Roh Roy was built at Essex in 

 1900 for Gloucester, Massachusetts, owners from a de- 

 sign by B. B. Crowninshield of Boston, a well known 

 yacht designer. The Rob Roy received much pub- 

 licity and introduced the long-overhang bow into the 

 New England fishing fleet. Her hull was extremely 

 yacht-like and combined the long bow overhang with 

 an absence of forefoot; the keel rabbet and shoe were 

 straight from post to about half-way between the fore 

 and main masts, and there was a heavy drag. This 

 underwater profile proved practical, as it permitted a 

 cutaway forefoot yet retained enough straight keel to 



allow the vessel to rest securely on a marine railway 

 when she was hauled out. The older, curved keel shoe 

 of the Fredonia model, and some early McManus- 

 designed fishing schooners, catised much trouble and 

 some accidents; vessels on occasion "fell down" on the 

 marine railway by rolling forward on their rockered 

 keel and forcing the shores out of place. The new 

 form was so popular after 1900 that it Ijecame known 

 as the "fisherman profile." The short keel and cut- 

 away forefoot were supposed to make a vessel very 

 quick turning and handy compared to older schooners. 



Considered a very fine market schooner, the Rob 

 Roy is a good example of a great many of the last sail- 

 ing schooners built as fishermen at E.ssex and other 

 New England shipyard towns. Her designer followed 

 her with the Harmony, Tartar, Stratiger, and a number 

 of other successful schooners of the same type, which 

 remained in use until motor \essels replaced the sail- 

 ing schooner. The only departure of importance from 

 the Rob Roy model was McManus" knockabout de- 

 signs beginning with the Helen B. Thomas (half-model 

 USNM 310888), built in 1901, in which the spike 

 bowsprit was omitted. Few clipper-bow fishermen 

 of the Fredonia model were built after the appearance 

 of the Rob Roy in 1900. 



The Rob Roy was a sharp schooner ha\'ing a short, 

 straight keel and shoe with much drag, knuckling into 

 a long rising forepiece that gradually faired in profile 

 into the slightly curved stem forming a long forward 

 overhang. Aft, the post raked and there was a long 

 and rather narrow counter ending in a small elliptical 

 transom with dead rise in its bottom. The sheer was 

 moderate, and she had the fisherman's standard low. 

 long quarterdeck. The entrance was convex and 

 sharp, the run long and easy. The midsection showed 

 a sharply rising and slightly hollow floor, high and 

 rather hard bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the 

 topside. 



Scale of model is Jo inch to the foot. The vessel was 

 about 110 feet at rail, 88 feet at load waterline, 23 feet 

 6 inches beam and 1 1 feet depth. The spike bowsprit 

 extended 26 feet outside the rabbet, the foremast 

 stood 58 feet abo\'e the deck, fore-topmast 37 feet in 

 total length, the fore boom 28 feet, and fore gaff 27 

 feet. The mainmast stood 71 feet above deck, main- 

 topmast 41 feet in total length, main boom 66 feet 

 long, main gaff" 36 feet. Model shows the \'essel with 

 all sail set, including mainsail, foresail, forestaysail, 

 jib, jib topsails, fore and main gaff-topsails, fisherman 

 staysail. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



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