Scale of the model is V, inch to the foot. The Alba- 

 tross was 324 feet long overaU, 200 feet on the 12-foot 

 (load) waterline, 27 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 

 16 feet 9 inches depth inside. Her displacement ton- 

 nage on 12-foot draft was 1,000 tons, and her register 

 tonnage 400 net tons. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



TANCOOK WHALER, about 1910 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311598 



This half-model was made by O. B. Hamm, Ma- 

 hone Bay, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, to repre- 

 sent a "Tancook whaler" of about 1910. 



The model represents a double-ended clipper-bow 

 centerboard schooner, 37 feet long, of the type built 

 at Tancook Island in Mahone Bay on the southeast 

 coast of Nova Scotia from about 1890 to about 1910. 

 Three boats are supposed to have been built from this 

 model. The whalers ranged from about 26 to 45 feet 

 in length and were noted for their speed and sea- 

 worthiness, being used in the shore fisheries at Ma- 

 hone Bay and its vicinity. Now e.xtinct as a type, 

 they were replaced about 1910^12 by boats mod- 

 eled on the fishing schooners. Though early boats 

 of this type were lapstrake planked, the half-model 

 represents a caravel, or "set work," planked hull, 

 having a straight plank keel wider in the middle than 

 at the ends, with much drag, a very raking sternpost, 

 raking clipper bow with small gammon-knee head, 

 strong sheer, and sharp stern. The entrance and run 

 are both hollow and very sharp, the run sharper than 

 the entrance. The midsection shows very hollow 

 garboards, a rising floor, and a high and moderately 

 hard bilge with slightly flaring topsides. 



These boats were half-decked; a cuddy was under 

 the foredeck. They had an iron centerboard and were 

 rigged with two pole masts, schooner fashion. They 

 set a single jib to a stayjon a short bowsprit, and had a 

 loose-footed gaff -foresail, the clew of which overlapped 

 the mainsail, a gafT-mainsail and a main-topmast or 

 "fisherman's" staysail set to the mainmast pole head. 



Scale of the model is % inch to the foot; 37 feet 

 moulded length at gunwale, 9 feet beam, 4 feet draft 

 at post, and 2 feet 3 inches forward. 



Given by George Stadcl, Jr., naval architect, Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut. 



QUODDY BOAT, 1880 



Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54478 



This half-model represents a large fishing boat from 

 Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine, of a type sometimes 



.S.\RDiNE Carrier of the smaller size in use at East- 

 port, Maine, in the i88o's. This type was known as 

 a quoddy boat, after Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. 

 Rigged model USNM 12099. {Smithsonian photo 

 45605-]-) 



called '"Quoddy boat" but more generally called 

 "pinky" locally, though it does not have the pink stern 

 tisually associated with the pinky schooner in North 

 America. These boats were employed in the local 

 herring fishery for attending the weirs and carrying 

 fish to the factories. The boats were double-enders 

 and varied in length from about 20 to 40 feet on deck. 

 Boats from 20 to 28 feet in length usually had one mast 

 and a single gaff-sail. These, as late as 1890, were 

 clench built, as a rule. They .sometimes had a small 

 bowsprit, built to unship, on which was set a small 

 flying jib. The larger boats were caravel built; they 

 were sloop rigged and had a standing bowsprit, gaff^ 

 mainsail, and one large jib hanked on a stay. They 

 always had a cuddy in a small trunk cabin forward, a 



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