BILOXI FISHING SCHOONER, 1929 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311255 



F. B. Walker, James Velich, L. L. Colle 



The Biloxi fishing schooners F. B. Walker, James 

 Velich, and L. L. Colle were biiiU from this half-model; 

 the first two in 1929-30 at Biloxi, Mississippi. They 

 were clipper-bow, centerboard, shoal-draft schooners 

 with auxiliary gasoline engines. 



The half-model shows a hull ha\ing a skeg aft, with 

 straight keel rabbet forward, but sweeping up aft to 

 the bottom of the transom, which is raking and wide. 

 The stem rabbet is cur\ed and flaring, and rakes for- 

 ward in the usual clipper style. The sheer is very 

 marked. The entrance is sharp and the run easy. 

 The midsection shows a slightly rising straight floor, 

 a hard low bilge, and a nearly upright topside. Scale 

 is % inch to the foot, to produce a schooner about 63 

 feet 6 inches over the rails, 20 feet moulded beam, and 

 about 4 feet moulded depth, drawing about 4 feet 6 

 inches at post loaded. 



Given by F. B. Walker, shipbuilder, Biloxi, 

 Mississippi. 



GULF COAST FISHING SCHOONER, 1929 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311247 



Baby Ann 



The auxiliary fishing schooner Bahy Ann was built 

 from this half-model by Sideon Krebs & Son in 1929 

 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, for the shrimp fishery. 

 Such schooners were fast sailers and were very stiff, 

 carrying a heavy press of canvas. They were capable 

 of being employed both as fishing and freighting 

 vessels and were somewhat similar to the New Jersey 

 oyster schooners. 



The half-model shows a rather yacht-like center- 

 board schooner of strong sheer, having a rounded 

 stem rabbet, a long thin counter ending in a small 

 and sharply raking transom, an upright stcrnpost, 

 and a straight keel fairing into the stem rabbet and 

 stem. The mid.section shows a rising straight floor, 

 an easy bilge, and an upright topside. The entrance 

 is sharp and the run is easy and rather flat in the 

 buttocks. 



Scale of the half-model is % inch to the foot, to 

 measure about 74 feet moulded length at rail, 18 

 feet moulded beam, and drawing about 6 feet fully 

 loaded, with centerboard raised. 



Given by Sideon Krebs & Son, shipbuilders. Pas- 

 cagoula, Mississippi. 



V-BOTTOM FISHING SCHOONER, about 1906 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311265 



This model represents a V-bottom schooner built 

 by Samuel Johnson about 1906 at Apalachicola, 

 Florida, for the Gulf Coast fisheries. Schooners with 

 this type of hull were used extensively, from 1900 to 

 1915, on the Atlantic Coast from the Chesapeake to 

 Florida in various fisheries and for oiT-season freight- 

 ing. They usually had longheads, a trunk cabin 

 aft. and large centerboards. They sailed well. 



The half-model shows a chine-built hull, to be fitted 

 with centerboard and skeg, with rockcred keel rabbet 

 sweeping up aft to the bottom of the raking, wide, 

 flat transom. The stem rabbet is curved, with little 

 rake, and the sheer is strong. The chine in profile 

 has marked camber; the midsection shows a very 

 moderate rise of straight floor to the angle of the 

 chine, and the topsides above are straight and flare 

 out a little. The rim is rather short and the entrance 

 moderately sharp. 



Scale of the half-model is supposed to be V^ inch to 

 the foot, indicating a schooner of al)out 46 feet 9 

 inches length on deck, 13 feet 6 inches moulded beam, 

 and drawing about 4 feet at the skeg. 



Given by Samuel Johnson, shipbuilder, Apalachi- 

 cola, Florida. 



GREAT LAKES GILL-NET STEAMER, 1880 

 Rigged Model, usnm 55812 



This model was made to represent an early type of 

 small fishing steamer employed in the gill-net fisheries 

 of the Great Lakes in the last quarter of the 19th 

 century: the type was sometimes referred to as "fishing 

 tugs" because of their similarity to a tug in form and 

 often in general appearance. They varied from 10 

 to 40 tons register and were single-screw vessels 

 usually carrying a simple rig and moderate sail- 

 power for steadying purposes. The nets were worked 

 over the stern and bow; the fish were stowed in the 

 fore hold; and a deckhouse and pilothouse were 

 located about amidships. 



The model shows a tug hull having straight keel 

 with drag; a curved upright stem; an upright post 

 with round tug-stern; strong sheer; a midsection with 

 rising floor, firm bilge, and upright topside; and a 

 sharp, long entrance and easy run. The typical deck- 

 house, rig, and gear are shown. These vessels in 

 1880-85 had one mast, well forward in the eyes of 

 the hull, and a gafl used for handling fish or to set 

 a sail to steady the vessel. 



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