Rigged Model (USNM 76238) of 

 the Alaskan salmon fishery steam 

 schooner Royal built at Benicia, 

 California, in 1891. She was em- 

 ployed chiefly in transporting fish 

 to market and to the canneries. 

 (Smithsonian photo ^46gj~b.) 



for the Alaskan salmon fishery. She was intended 

 primarily for transporting fish to market or to the 

 canneries. A number of these au.xiliary schooners, 

 of which this model is characteristic, were built aftet 

 1890. They were pole-masted vessels having leg-of- 

 mutton mainsails; the rig was that of the sailing 

 schooners then fishing in Alaskan waters but with 

 less sail area and without light sails. 



The model shows a sharp auxiliary schooner having 

 strong sheer, a straight keel with marked drag, a 

 sharp entrance and fine run, a strongly curved and 

 raking stem, an upright post, and an overhanging 

 round stern. The midsection is formed with a rising 

 straight floor, easy bilge, and a slight tumble-home 

 in the topside. The vessel had a quarterdeck flush 

 with the top of the bulwarks for about one-third the 

 vessel's length; on it w^as a rail made of iron stan- 

 chions and wire. Also shown are a deckhouse with 

 a pilothouse at its fore end, a fish hatch, a slide 

 companionway to the forecastle, and a boat in davits 

 amidships on the starboard side. 



The rig was large enough to permit good sailing, 

 and the screw was therefore two-bladed so that it 

 could be brought in line with the sternpost under 

 sail to reduce its drag. 



Scale of inodel is Jj inch to the foot; the vessel was 

 81 feet at rail, 20.6 feet beam, 8.2 feet depth, and 

 29.54 net tons. The mainmast stood 56 feet above 

 deck, foremast 56 feet, bowsprit outboard of rabbet 



13 feet, main boom 44 feet long, and fore gaff 16 feet. 

 Given bv U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FISHING STEAMER, 1S91 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76240 



Golden Gate 



The screw fishing steamer Gulden Gate was 

 built at San Francisco in 1891 for the local market 

 fishery. The model represents a type of small sloop- 

 rigged steamer, of which several had been built 

 after 1889 for the California coastal fishery, employing 

 the "parenzeila," a large net towed over the bottom, 

 the Mediterranean equivalent of the otter-tiawl. 

 These steamers were the result of the efforts of Cap- 

 tain Joseph W. Collins to introduce steamers in the 

 American fisheries; his paper "Suggestions for the 

 Employment of Improved Types of Vessels in the 

 Market Fisheries, etc.,"' published in 1888, attracted 

 much attention among fisfiermen and resulted in a 

 number of experiments with steamers in New England, 

 California, and elsewhere. 



The model shows a wooden, keel \essel having 

 marked sheer, a sharp entrance of medium length, 

 a long easy run, straight keel with some drag, stem 

 curved at forefoot but straight above the waterline, 

 upright post, and a round, overhanging stern. The 

 midsection shows a moderate rise of floor, hard bilge, 

 and a slight tumble-hoine in die topside. The model 

 has a long deckhouse with the pilothouse at the fore 



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