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Oyster buckeye — Continued. 



to 20 tons 5 are good sea-boats and fast sailers. Dimensions of 

 original. — Length over all, 36 feet ; keel, 33 feet ; beam, 7£ feet ; 

 depth of hold, 4 feet; mainmast from partners, 25 feet; main- 

 topmast, 10^ feet; foremast, 25 feet; bowsprit, 9 J feet; main- 

 gaff, 10 feet; mainboom, 18 feet; foregaff, 9 feet; foreboom, 

 18 feet. 



Oyster pungy. 



Model, scale l*inch to foot. Schooner-rigged, with all sails (main- 

 sail, foresail, jib, staysail, and gaff-topsail) set; sharp aft; 

 moderately sharp, rounding bow; low bilge; rather flat floor. 

 Fitted with oyster-rakes, winches, &c. Baltimore, Md., 1880. 

 42,757. T. B. Ferguson. The style of small schooners repre- 

 sented by this model is employed to some extent in the oyster 

 fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Dimen- 

 sions of original. — Hull: Length over all, 48 feet; keel, 42 feet; 

 beam, 12 feet. Spars : Bowsprit (outside), 13£ feet ; foremast 

 (above deck), 38^ feet; mainmast, 38 \ feet; main-topmast, 7% 

 feet ; mainboom, 25 feet ; outboard, 7 feet. 



Old-Style Grand Bank cod-fishing schooner "Open Sea." 

 Model, scale \ inch to foot. This is the model of the schooner 

 Open Sea, of Marblehead, built about 1820, and represents a 

 vessel of about 75 to 80 tons, old measurement (55 to 60 tons 

 new measurement), such as were employed in the fisheries 

 in the period between 1750 and 1840. Full, round bow, curved 

 stem, and gammon knee cutwater; long, straight side; long 

 floor; low, full, round bilge; short, full run; large, square 

 stern; high quarter-deck, extending nearly to mainmast; old- 

 style windlass (worked with handspikes), cables, anchors; 4 

 fish-kids (2 on each side) on main deck ; scaffold crutch for 

 foreboom ; steps on each side of quarter-deck ; two pumps • 

 square-stern yawl-boat, turned bottom up and lashed on top 

 of davits. Gloucester, Mass., 1883. 57,585. U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. The class of vessels represented by this model were 

 extensively employed in the Grand Bank cod-fishery during 

 the last century, and to a less extent during the first quarter 

 of this. Many of them had higher and shorter quarter-decks 

 than this model, and were known as heel-tappers. In all cases 

 the crew fished with hand-lines from the deck. Dimensions 

 of original. — Hull: Length over all, 65 feet; beam, 18 feet; 

 draught, 8 feet. Spars: Bowsprit (outside knight-heads), 15^- 

 feet; foremast (above deck), 43£ feet; mainmast (above deck), 

 45J feet; main-topmast, 2LJ feet; foreboom, 22 feet; foregaff, 

 21 feet; mainboom, 38 feet; maingaff, 24 feet, 

 2444— Bull. 27—43 



