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above the rudder it was also possible to avoid the expense 

 of making the broad, flat stern plank, allowing the side 

 planks to run out a little farther until the ends came 

 together. At the very peak of the stern there was a notch 

 made at the meeting of the quarter rails, into which the main 

 boom could be dropped when the vessel was at rest. A 

 respectable and roomy quarter-deck in a square sterner 

 was much to be preferred, and the pinkies were not long 

 the ruling style. 



In that year, 1817, there were two more built with the 



Hull of a Pinky. 1820. 



pink stern, the Fawn, by James Stoddard, for Peter 

 Lothrop, and the Lizard, by Abraham Tower, for himself. 

 The shipyards where the building was done during the 

 years 1811-19 were principally the one upon what is 

 now the Lawrence Barrett estate * and the one near the 

 present Guild Hall. Another small shipyard is said to 

 have been at the inlet on the northwest side of the Bar- 

 rett estate. 



A list of the vessels built at this period has been 

 gleaned out of the Enrollment books, and it may present 

 some interesting facts as to ship owners and ship builders 



* The summer residenee of C. W. Barron. 



