hull may be said to be fairly typical of the class, 

 as is the deck arrangement, consisting of a turtleback 

 and raised deck forward, a house well aft, and a fish 

 hold amidships. 



The vessel was schooner masted, but many of the 

 type are sparred ketch fashion. They are powered 

 with 300-400 horsepower diesel engines and have a 

 service speed of a little over 8 knots. 



Built for the Museum by Jay Hanna, Rockport 

 Maine, from the builder's plans and from measure- 

 ments of the vessel. 



WHALING SHIP, 1831 



Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160126 



Cornelius Howland 



The New Bedford whaling ship Cornelius Howland 

 was built from this half-model at New Bedford, Massa- 

 chusetts, in 1851. She was designed for whaling and 

 sailed on her last voyage August 4, 1874, being nipped 

 in the ice north of Bering Strait in 1876 and wrecked. 



The Hoivland was a clipper-model whaler of slight 

 sheer, having moderately rising floors, easy bilges, a 

 rather sharp but short entrance and a long, easy run, 

 a short heavy roimd-tuck stern with upper and lower 

 transoms, straight keel, upright sternpost, and rather 

 raking stem, with the bow flaring forward. 



Scale of the model is ){ inch to the foot; producing 

 a vessel approximately 128 feet long at rail and 27 

 feet 2 inches moulded beam, to inside of plank. The 

 register dimensions of the Howland were 123 feet 

 length between perpendiculars, 27 feet 9 inches 

 breadth, 13 feet lOJ^ inches depth in hold, and 

 431 ■''95 tons; billet head, no galleries, square stern. 



Given by New Bedford, Massachusetts, Board of 

 Trade. 



WHALING SHIP, 1851 



Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76324 



Nautilus 



The whaling ship Nautilus of New Bedford was 

 built from this half-model at Fairhaven, Massachu- 

 setts, in 1851. Reputed a smart sailer, she was re- 

 rigged as a bark in 1859 and was sold foreign in 1881 . 



The Nautilus was a clipper-model whaler having a 

 short and moderately sharp entrance; long, fine nm; 

 a heavy, square round-tuck stern with rather upright 

 sternpost and upper and lower transoms; slightly 

 raking stem; rising floors with well rounded bilges; 

 straight keel with slight drag; and slight sheer. Her 

 capacity was 2400 barrels of oil. each of 31'; Ameri- 

 can gallons. 



The model scales approximately 114 feet on rail 

 and 27 feet moulded beam; the scale is ){ inch to the 

 foot. Register dimensions of the Nautilus were length 

 between perpendiculars 110 feet 9 inches, breadth 

 27 feet Sji inches, depth in hold 13 feet 8% inches, 

 374 '%5 tons; billet head, no galleries. 



Given bv Gideon Allen. 



WHALING SHIP, 1853 



Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160124 



Reindeer 



The ship Reindeer of New Bedford was built from this 

 half-model in Rochester Township, Massachusetts, 

 in the year 1 853. This ves.sel was designed for whaling 

 and represents the superior cla.ss of ships and barks in 

 this fishery. A "sharp bottom" was required in these 

 vessels to make them "easy" on their spars, rigging, 

 and hull-structure, when a whale being stripped of 

 blubber alongside was kept afloat by a strain on the 

 "cutting-in" tackles. If a whaling vessel had great 

 initial stability, any roll caused by a sea would make 

 her lift the carcass and thus cause massive strains. 

 At the time the Reindeer was designed, speed under 

 sail was deemed desirable and an effort was made to 

 combine speed with capacity. This ship was con- 

 sidered one of the swiftest and finest whalers afloat 

 in her time; she was employed largely in the Bering 

 Sea whale fishery, for which she was especially 

 designed. In 1 862 her crew were attacked by Eskimos 

 or Indians, and she was abandoned and crushed in 

 the ice off the north shore of Alaska during September 

 1 87 1 . .She was ship rigged throughout her career. 



The half-model shows a wooden clipper-hulled 

 ship having much rise in the floor and an easy turn 

 of bilge, the bow moderately sharp and without 

 hollow, the entrance rather short, the run fine and 

 relatively long. Above the load waterline the bow 

 flares out a good deal; the stem also flares forward 

 on the rabbet and the cutwater and head are long 

 and graceful. The stern is wide and square, with a 

 very short overhang, upper-and-lower transoms, 

 round tuck, and little rake in the sternpost. The 

 sheer is slight, in the fashion of the time. The keel 

 is straight; the vessel sailed with a slight drag. 



Scale of the model is ji inch to the foot, giving a 

 vessel 129 feet over the rails, 120 feet 10 inches Cus- 

 tomhouse length, 27 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 

 18 feet 2 inches moulded depth to inside of plank. 

 Customhouse dimensions were 123 feet 6 inches 

 between perpendiculars, 28 feet 4 inches beam, 



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