Paddle-Wheel Fishing Steamer Built in 1885 for Service on the North Carolina Sounds, the Camille. 

 A model of this steamer, USNM 76236, is in the Watercraft Collection. (Smithsonian photo 34648-a.) 



round, overhanging stern, moderate sheer, a sharp 

 and long entrance, and an easy run. The midsection 

 shows a slightly rising straight floor, low and full 

 bilge, and rather upright topside. 



The deck arrangement and gear common in this 

 class of vessel at the date of building are shown. A 

 deckhouse, forward, contains a pilothouse and cap- 

 tain quarters. A large main fish hatch is amidships 

 and the engine house with stack is aft. Two seine 

 boats are carried in davits at quarters. The model is 

 sloop rigged with a loose-footed gaff mainsail and a 

 jib tacked to stemhead ; the rig was only adequate for 

 steadying the vessel. 



Scale of model is ]i inch to the foot, to represent a 

 vessel 110 feet at rail, 17 feet beam, 7 feet 6 inches 

 depth, and drawing 7 feet 6 inches at post and 3 feet 

 forward. The mast was 54 feet above deck and 38 

 feet abaft the stem; the gaff was 21 feet long. 



Given by U.S. Fish Commission. 



STEAM SEINE BOAT, 1885 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76022 



This half-inodel was a proposed design for a small 

 shoal-draft side-wheel steamer, to be named Canvas- 

 back, prepared in 1885 by Past Assistant Engineer 

 George W. Baird U.S.N. The steamer was intended 

 to operate a drag seine for the U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries station at Havre de Grace, Maryland, and to 

 work in the shallow waters of the upper Chesapeake 

 Bay. The boat was not built. 



The design as shown by the half-model called for a 

 hull having slight sheer, a very long and sharp en- 

 trance, a very short and full run, a straight keel, an 

 upright straight stem, raking post, and an upright 

 rectangular transom that is wide and very shallow. 

 The greatest beam is at the side wheels and well abaft 

 midlength. The midsection is formed with a nearly 

 flat floor, a low, hard, and round bilge, and a slightly 

 flaring topside. The hull is double ended at the 

 waterline, and forward it is rather wall sided; close to 

 the stern, in the quarters, the flare is great. 



Scale of the half-model is Y2 inch to the foot, the 

 steamer was to measure 66 feet between perpendicu- 

 lars, 12 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and to displace 

 IQfi tons. She was to have a HerreshofT patent 

 boiler, two independent-cylinder engines, 10 x 20 

 inches, of 62 indicated horsepower, and 9-foot-diam- 

 eter sidewhcels. 



The ,Tiodel shows the side-wheel housing and wheel, 

 deckhouse, and mast positions. It is painted and 

 decorated. 



Given by U. S. Fish Commission. 



PADDLE-WHEEL FISHING STEAMER, 1885 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76236 



Camille 



The model of the paddle-wheel steamer Camille rep- 

 resents a type of shoal-draft steamer used on Croatan 

 Sound, North Carolina, during the last quarter of the 

 19th century, for working immense drag seines and 



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