end. It is rigged with one mast and a loose-footed 

 gaff-mainsail, with a single jib tacked to the stem- 

 head. The steamer was single screw, and the hull 

 generally resembled that of a contemporary tugboat. 



Scale of model is y, inch to the foot; the Golden 

 Gate was 80 feet overall, 18 feet beam, 7 feet depth; 

 length of the mast from deck to truck was 60 feet and 

 of the gaff 20 feet; the foot of the mainsail measured 

 62 feet, luff 36 feet, head 18M feet, leach 59 feet; 

 the foot of the jib measured 15 feet, leach 45 feet, 

 luff 47 feet. The sails were thus large enough to 

 make this steamer an auxiliary. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



GREAT LAKES FISHING STEAMER, 1894 

 Rigged Model, usnm 298233 



Margaret McCann 



The Margaret McCann was built at Grand Haven, 

 Michigan in 1894. "Fish-tugs" of this type were very 

 popular in the Great Lakes fisheries after 1885. 



The model shows a small wooden steamer, in a])- 

 pearance like a small harbor tug, having a straight 

 keel with drag, a curved and rather upright stem, 

 rounded forefoot, round stern with flaring bulwarks, 

 vertical post, sharp entrance; and a long, easy run. 

 The midsection is formed with a rising straight floor, 

 firm bilge, and upright topside. The sheer is mod- 

 erate. 



The pilothouse, at the fore end of the deckhouse, 

 is slightly raised, and the whole deck structure is 

 about one-third the length of the vessel. The model 

 carries a small stack, boat stowed upside down on 

 the deckhouse roof, a tall jack-staff at the bow, and 

 an ensign and signal staff at the after end of the 

 deckhouse. There is a net gurdy on the port side 

 of the foredeck, a fish hatch forward of the pilothouse, 

 and a tugboat-type iron windlass at the bow. Fish 

 bo.xes are on the afterdeck. 



.Scale of the model is % inch to the foot. The 

 Margaret McCann was 69 feet between perpendiculars, 



Rigged Model (USNM 285032) of the .Ste.\m 

 Mackerel Schooner Alice M. Jacobs, built at Essex, 

 Massacliusetts, in 1902. Her register dimensions 

 were 133' x 24.8' x 12', 221 gross tons, 400 horsepower. 

 {Smithsonian photos: bottom, ^^g^S-e; top, 4^gj6-d.) 



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