324 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The Grampus is a two-masted, schooner-rigged vessel, 90 feet long over all; 81 feet 
6 inches L. W. L.; 22 feet 3 inches beam, and 10 feet depth of hold. She registers 
83.30 tons. An important object sought in her design was the production of anew type 
of fishing vessel—one that will be much safer and in various ways better adapted to 
successfully encounter the exigencies which must be met by schooners employed 
in the ocean fisheries. In model and rig she is a radical departure from the 
vessels commonly engaged in the New England fisheries prior to her advent, and her 
superiority in safety, speed, and other desirable qualities has been fully established. 
After twelve years’ service the Grampus is unexcelled in speed by fishing vessels or 
pilot boats. She differs from the typical fishing schooner, at the time she was built, 
in being 18 to 24 inches deeper, in having 6 to 10 inches less beam, and an easier 
after section. She has less proportional width aft, greater rake to stern, and pilot- 
boat bow, with straight stem above water. Her extreme draft is 114 feet. 
The principal features of the Grampus have been copied by New England builders. 
Nearly all of the fishing vessels recently built are deeper than formerly, and embody 
other features that characterize the Grampus. The spirit of improvement has re- 
ceived such an impetus that the best skill of the most eminent nayal architects has of 
late been devoted to designing fishing vessels. 
New England mackerel seining schooner (rigged model: scale, 4 inch to 1 foot): 
The schooner Senator Gardner, of Gloucester, Mass., was built in Essex, Mass.,in 
1900, for employment in the summer mackerel fishery and in the winter frozen- 
herring trade. It represents a vessel of modern type, suitable for all branches of the 
fisheries. The model shows a mackerel seiner all ready to start on a cruise; seine 
boat on deck and seine stowed on deck, ready to take in boat on its arrival on the 
fishing-grounds. 
Length over all, 114 feet; water-line length, 92 feet; beam, 25 feet; depth, 11 feet 
6 inches; gross tonnage, 135; bowsprit, outboard, 30 feet; foremast from deck, 65 
feet; foretopmast, 42 feet; mainmast, 70 feet from deck; maintopmast, 44 feet; main- 
boom, 67 feet; maingaff, 37 feet; foreboom, 31 feet; foregaff, 32 feet; jumbo-boom, 
27 feet; seine boat, 40 feet long over all by 8 feet 6 inches beam. 
New England market fishing schooner (rigged model: scale, 4 inch to 1 foot): 
The schooner Rob Roy, of Gloucester, Mass., was built at Essex, Mass., in 1900, 
for employment in the market fishery, and is an entirely new model in fishing 
vessels, called the ‘‘knock-about”’ type. She is an ideal market fishing craft, as she 
is easily handled around the dories when out setting or hauling trawls, and isa 
smart sailer and an excellent sea boat. The model represents a market fisherman- 
as she appears ready to go to sea; dories on deck, nested right side up. 
Length over all, 110 feet; water-line length, 88 feet; beam, 23 feet 6 inches; 
depth, 11 feet; bowsprit, outboard, 26 feet; foremast, 58 feet from deck; foretop- 
mast, 37 feet; foreboom, 28 feet; foregaff, 27 feet; mainmast, 71 feet from deck; 
maintopmast, 41 feet; mainboom, 66 feet; maingaff, 36 feet. 
Designed by B. B. Crowinshield, Boston, Mass. 
New England Grand Bank Schooner (rigged model: scale, 4 inch to | foot): 
The schooner John J. Flaherty, of Gloucester, Mass., was built at Essex, Mass., in 
1899, for Grand Bank cod fishing in summer and in the winter frozen-herring trade. 
The model represents a fast and seaworthy vessel, ready to go to the Banks on a 
cruise. She is under full sail, with dories turned up and secured on deck, and 
checkerboard and oil butts in place. She illustrates the extreme type of Grand 
Banker, and is a very easy vessel to anchor in a heavy sea. Carries 2,200 barrels 
of herring, and had 600,000 pounds of cod on her first Grand Bank trip. 
Length, over all, 122 feet; water-line length, 102 feet; beam, 25 feet 6 inches; depth, 
123 feet; gross tonnage, 166.35; bowsprit, outboard, 36 feet; foremast, 64 feet from 
deck; foretopmast, 39 feet; foreboom, 33 feet; foregaff, 34 feet; mainmast, 76 feet; 
maintopmast 44 feet; main boom, 70 feet; main gaff, 40 feet; jumbo boom, 28 feet. 
Designed by Lawrence Jensen, Gloucester, Mass. 
Chesapeake Bay oyster pungy (rigged model: scale, $ inch to 1 foot): 
The schooner W. J. McKewen, of which this is a miniature, is a typical oyster 
pungy of the Chesapeake Bay region, where hundreds of such vessels are emploved. 
She was built in 1865, and was engaged in dredging oysters for many years. This 
type of fishing vessel has undergone little change in half a century. 
A earvel-built, wooden, keel vessel, with moderately sharp, flaring bow, curved, 
strongly raking stem, long head, sharp floor, long, lean run, shallow, square stern, 
raking sternpost, flush deck, log rail except aft of main rigging where there is an 
open quarter rail, rollers on rail amidships for dredge rope to pass over, typical 
schooner rig. Model equipped with oyster dredges, winches, etc. 
Length, over all, 68 feet; beam, 20 feet 9 inches; depth, 7 feet. 
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