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Fishing ketch — Continued. 



history of the country and previous to the invention of the 

 schooner, which came into use in the early part of the eight- 

 eenth century. 57,014. Capt. H. C. Chester. Full, blnff bow; 

 curved stem, with projecting billet-head ; low, full bilge; short, 

 full run; full, rounding stern, having a projection above deck 

 extending aft of rudder-head, like the "pink" (so called) of the 

 piukey; curved stern-post; slight sheer. The rig consists of 

 two masts and an adjustable bowsprit. The mainmast is placed 

 in the center of the vessel, and the mizzen half-way between 

 mainmast and stern. The sails are a jib and two staysails for- 

 ward, topsail, topgallant-sail, and spencer on mainmast, and 

 topsail and spanker on inizzen-mast. Dimensions of full- sized 

 Jcetch. — Hull : Length over all, 55 feet; beam, 15 feet; draught, 

 8 feet. Spars : Length, bowsprit (outside stem), 20 feet ; main- 

 mast (above deck), 30 feet; main-topmast, 19J feet; main-top- 

 gallant mast, 14 feet; mizzen-mast (above deck), 24 feet; miz- 

 zen-top-mast, 18 feet; spanker-boom, 16 feet; spanker gaff, 12 

 feet. 



3. Fishing schooners. 



Standing-room chebacco boat "Lion." 



Model, scale £ inch to foot. This model represents a pink (or sharp) 

 stern, standing-room chebacco boat of about 10 tons, the 

 smallest class used in the period between 1780 and 1820. She 

 has full, round bow ; narrow beam ; sharp stern ; three standing 

 rooms, where the men stood to fish ; two hatchways ; no bow- 

 sprit ; two masts, the foremast well forward. Gloucester, Mass. 

 39,198. Designed by Capt. Stephen J. Martin. The class of 

 small vessels represented by this model were extensively used 

 by the New England fishermen in the latter part of the eight- 

 eenth century, and were often built by the fishermen who sailed 

 them. Dimensions of original. — Hull : Length over all, 34 feet ; 

 beam, 9£ feet ; depth of hold, 4£ feet. Spars : Foremast (above 

 deck), 23 feet; mainmast, 23£ feet; foreboom, 12 feet; main- 

 boom, 18J feet. 



"Dogbody" or square stern chebacco boat "Chebacco." 



Model, scale £ inch to foot. This model represents a square stern,, 

 decked, chebacco boat of about 17 tons ; this, together with 

 pinkey boats of the same rig, and which were also decked, being 

 the best class of these crafts employed in the fisheries during 

 the early part of the present century. It has very full, round- 

 ing bow; straight side; square stern; low, round bilge; short 

 run ; raised "cuddy" deck forward ; high stem ; no bowsprit; 

 two masts ; two sails, foresail and mainsail ;.. two fishkids ; 



