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with enhanced safety. By correspondence, discussions in the daily press, per- 

 sonal interviews, exhibition of models, and finally by the actual construction of 

 a full-sized schooner (the Grampus) with the requisite qualities, the Bureau was 

 able to inaugurate a momentous change in the architecture of fishing vessels, 

 so that for a long time the New England schooners have been constructed on 

 the new lines, with a constant minimizing of disasters and a decided increase 

 in efficiency. For other fisheries and regions the Bureau has likewise advocated 

 improved types of vessels and boats especially adapted to local conditions, and 

 has published plans and specifications embodying the results of studies of the 

 fishing flotilla of the world. The results of the Bureau's efforts in this line, in 

 saving life and property, in increasing the usefulness of the vessels, and in 

 improving the quality of the catch as landed can not be estimated, but the 

 beneficial effects may be partly appreciated when it is stated that during the 

 ten years ended in 1883, when the old types of vessels were in use, there were lost 

 by foundering, from the port of Gloucester alone, 82 vessels, valued at more than 

 $400,000, with their crews of 895 men; while during the ten years ending in 

 1907 the losses from this cause aggregated only a fourth as many vessels and 

 men. 



