2 inches forward. The well amidships was about 5 

 feet 6 inches square at bottom and 3 feet 6 inches at 

 underside of deck. Most of the boats contemporary 

 with tiie Jeff Brown were somewhat smaller than she 

 was, but by 1895 the smackees were generally of her 

 size. 

 Given by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



KEY WEST SMACKEE, 1883 

 Rigged model, usnm 76258 



Jejf Brown 



The leg-of-mutton sloop Jeff Brown that was built 

 at Key West, Florida, in 1883 from half-model 

 USNM 76086 was fitted as shown in this rigged model. 

 Most of these small smacks carried a variation of 

 the leg-of-mutton Bermuda or Bahama rig, a jib- 

 headed mainsail and large single jib. The model, 

 however, shows the mainsail laced to the booin, 

 which was not done in either of these rigs. Some 

 had a small cabin trunk that could be fitted over one 

 of the hatches when it was desirable to shelter the 

 crew. 



The model show^s a small sloop-rigged boat having a 

 straight keel and skeg, straight raking stem, rather 

 upright post and V-shaped transoin with rudder 

 stock passing through its heel, sharp entrance, good 

 run, and a midsection with rising floor slightly hollow 

 at the garboard, firm bilge, and flaring topside. 



The deck arrangement shown includes a U-shaped 

 standing well for the helmsman, a well hatch amid- 

 ships, and a small hatch to a cuddy forward. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot; the boat was 

 25 feet 3)^ inches overall, 24 feet 3 inches at gimwale, 

 8 feet 3J^ inches beam, about 2 feet 10 inches depth; 

 the mast stood 28 feet 9 inches above deck, the bow- 

 sprit extended 6 feet outside the stem, and the boom 

 was 23 feet long. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



BAHAMA SCHOONER SMACK, 1883 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76010 



This model represents the type of schooner smack 

 used in the Bahama Islands; many schooners of this 

 type worked out of Great Abaco and nearby islands, 

 supplying fish to Nassau. In general they resembled 

 the old pungy schooners of the Chesapeake Bay, 

 some had overhanging sterns but many had heart- 

 shaped raking transoms with outboard rudders and 

 sternposts. The schooners had a reputation for speed 



and weatherliness. Sloops W'cre built on the same 

 general model but with greater proportionate beam. 



The model shows a caravel-planked, keel schooner 

 having a straight keel with much drag, a curved and 

 raking stem rabbet with longhead, a light square 

 stern, moderate sheer, a long and sharp entrance, a 

 long easy run, and the midsection formed with a 

 sharply rising straight floor, an easy round bilge, and 

 an upright topside. These schooners were flush 

 decked, with low bulwarks or a log rail; they usually 

 had aft a trunk cabin, amidships a large well entered 

 through a hatch with grating, and just abaft the fore- 

 mast a slide companionway to enter the forepeak. 



This model shows a schooner having a single large 

 jib, a loose-footed foresail, boomed loose-footed main- 

 sail; the main topmast is fitted but the main gaff- 

 topsail and main-topmast staysail are omitted. Model 

 is equipped with two square-stern dinghies. 



These schooners were usually metal sheathed with 

 Muntz metal or "yellow metal" and the inside of the 

 wells was sometimes sheathen with sheet-lead, as 

 yellow metal was thought to poison the fish in the 

 well. The lead also had the advantage of being 

 easily worked around frames, keel, and in the per- 

 forations of the bottom. The marine boring worm 

 toredo caused damage to these smacks in Bahamian 

 waters. 



Scale of the model is H inch to the foot, for a schooner 

 54 feet at rail, 14 feet 3 inches beam, 5 feet depth (the 

 keel outside rabbet scales 21 inches deep), trunk 

 cabin 12 feet long and 7 feet wide, bowsprit outboard 

 of rabbet 10 feet, foremast above deck 44 feet, main- 

 mast 44 feet, main topmast 15 feet total length, fore 

 gaff 12 feet, main boom 30 feet, and main gaff" 13 

 feet. In latter years these schooners often had a 

 boomed foresail and in the late 1880"s schooners re- 

 sembling the Key West smacks were built in the 

 Bahamas. 



Given by Commissioners for the Bahama Islands, 

 International Fisheries Exposition, London, 1883. 



BAHAMA SPONGE-FISHING SCHOONER, 1883 

 Rigged Model, usnm 160143 



This model represents a class of Bahama schooner 

 formerly used in the sponge fishery and in the sea- 

 turtle fishery. The schooners were clipper built 

 and resembled the old Baltimore clipper type, from 

 which they are supposed to have descended. 



The model shows a sharp schooner having a straight 

 keel w^ith much drag, strongly cur\-ed and raking 

 stem rabbet with a longhead, raking post and heart- 



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