was a shoal draft, cemerboard vessel of a model and 

 size that was popular in the oyster fishery on the 

 southern coast of New Jersey. 



The half-model shows a hull having moderate sheer, 

 straight keel with slight drag, curved and very raking 

 stem rabbet, and slightly raking sternpost, with a 

 rather long coimtcr ending in a deep, raking, elliptical 

 transom curved athwartships. The model also shows 

 a short, low, raised quaterdeck. The midsection 

 shows a moderately rising straight floor carried well 

 out, and a full, round bilge, with vertical topside 

 above. The dead rise is constant toward the stern, 

 the entrance is sharp and without hollow, and the run 

 is formed with very straight buttocks. The stem has a 

 longhead somewhat like that employed in Chesapeake 

 Bay schooners, but proportionately shorter. 



These large centerboard schooners employed as 

 coasters and fishermen commonly had the long cen- 

 terboard passing through the garboard on one side of 

 the keel; the mainmast, abreast the after part of the 

 case, was stepped off-center on the opposite side. The 

 centerboard was lifted with nn iron rod which \vas 

 shackled into the top of the board and carried well 

 aloft alongside the mainmast, ending in an eye into 

 which a tackle block was hooked, with the upper 

 tackle block in the hounds, and the fall brought to 

 deck. 



Scale of the model is I2 inch to the foot, to represent 

 a vessel 77 feet moulded length at rail, aboiU 65 feet 

 3 inches between perpendiculars, 20 feet 2 inches 

 moulded beam, and 6 feet 4 inches moulded depth, 

 and drawing 6 feet at the post and 5 feet 5 inches for- 

 ward. 



Given by George Shillingsburg. 



NEW JERSEY OYSTER SCHOONER, 1926 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311090 

 Lines Plans, hamms 4-42 



Noni/c 



The New Jersey oyster dredge Nordic was jjuilt from 

 this half-model at Greenwich, New Jersey, in 1926 by 

 William Parsons. A large centerboard auxiliary 

 schooner with "baldheaded" rig, without topmasts or 

 light sails, she was one of the largest schooners in the 

 New Jersey fishery. The model is a <4ood representa- 

 tion of the type of oyster schooner in this area during 

 the last years in which sailing craft were built. 



The model shows a long centerboard schooner ha\'- 

 ing a straight keel fairing up into a curved stem of 

 slight overhang, some drag, a .slightly raking post, a 



short heavy coimter, elliptical and raking transom, 

 moderate sheer, and a flush deck with a low, false 

 quarterdeck rail. The midsection shows a straight 

 rising floor, a high hard bilge, and an upright top- 

 sidts. The dead rise amidships is carried aft at a 

 nearly constant angle, and the bottom of the transom 

 has dead rise. The entrance is sharp and convex, the 

 run long, straight, and easy. The centerboard is 

 alongside the keel to port. 



Scale of model is ji inch to the foot. The Nordic was 

 101 feet over the rails, 23 feet 2 inches moulded beam, 

 23 feet 7 inches extreme beam, about 81 feet 6 inches 

 on the waterline, and drew about 8 feet with the cen- 

 terboard raised. 



Given by George Shillingsburg. 



BILOXI FISHING and FREIGHTING SCHOONER, 



about 1885 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311251 



This half-model represents a type of schooner 

 em]5loyed on the Gulf Coast for both freighting and 

 fishing, as schooners were employed on the Chesa- 

 peake. It is believed that this model was used to 

 build a centerboard schooner of this class at Biloxi, 

 Mississippi, about 1885. 



The model shows a shoal centerboard schooner hull 

 having a skeg aft and with a straight keel rabbet 

 forward, but swept up aft to the bottom of the tran- 

 som. The shoe of the keel would therefore be straight 

 and have some drag. The stem rabbet is straight 

 and raking, and to it was attached a long head. The 

 transom is wide, flat, and raking; the sheer is great. 

 The entrance is sharp but not long, and the run is 

 short and cjuite full; and the midsection shows 

 slightly rising straight floor, a hard round bilge, and 

 a nearly vertical topside. 



Scale of the half-model is estimated as }^ inch to 

 the foot, to measiu-e 74 feet moulded length at rail, 

 21 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and about 4 feet 6 

 inches moulded depth to deck. 



Gi\en by Henry Brasher, shipbuilder. Biloxi, 

 Mississippi. 



FISHING SCHOONER, about 1900 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311257 



A centerboard fishing schooner for South' Florida 

 was built from this model by Samuel Johnson at 

 Apalachicola, Florida, about 1900. The vessel was 

 intended for shrimp fishing and for freighting, and was 



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