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Mackerel-fishing schooner " William M. Gaffney." 



Model, scale \ inch to foot. This model represents a clipper schooner 

 of about 75 tons, with all sails (mainsail, foresail, jib, flying-jib, 

 jib-topsail, or balloon jib, main staysail, fore and main gaff-top- 

 sails) set ; the rig is that of a doable-topmast schooner ; long, 

 sharpbow; broad beam; long run; elliptical stern. Gloucester, 

 Mass., 1880. 39,487. U. S. Fish Commission. The equipment, 

 rig, and other characteristics of the extreme clipper schooners 

 employed in the mackerel purse-seine fishery are represented by 

 this model. Dimensions of original. — Hull: Length over all, 82 

 feet; beam, 21 feet; depth of hold, 7| feet. Spars: Bowsprit 

 (outside knight heads), 18 feet; jibboom (outside cap), 12 feet; 

 foremast and fore-topmast (above deck), 84 feet ; mainmast and 

 main-topmast (above deck), 85 feet ; mainboom, 56 feet. 



Fishing schooner "Gertie Evelyn," of Gloucester, Mass. 



Sectional model, port side, scale 1 inch to foot. This model 

 shows the exterior and interior of the port side of a clipper 

 fishing schooner, such as are now employed in the general 

 deep-sea fisheries of New England. It is specially designed 

 to show the arrangement of the interior, such as the fore- 

 castle, cook's pantry and store-room, ice-houses for the refrig- 

 eration of fish, bait, &c, the stowage of ballast, cabin, gear- 

 room, &c. The ice-house is built in the style which has 

 been most commonly adopted on vessels employed in the fresh- 

 halibut fishery or the winter haddock fishery, and with the ex- 

 ception that on some of the vessels the ice-house is divided 

 into two sections — the "forward" and "after" ice-houses — by 

 a bulkhead just abaft the mainmast, few if any differ from this. 

 Comparatively few American schooners carry any other than 

 stone ballast, and such is shown, though some have partly 

 iron ballast, which is stowed each side of the keelson, and 

 in exceptional cases a vessel may be wholly ballasted with 

 iron, especially those of smaller size. The forecastle, which is 

 the sleeping apartment for a portion of the crew and for the cook, 

 and the place where the cooking is done, and where the entire 

 crew, including the captain, eat their meals, is finished in pine, 

 painted and grained. Lockers run around both sides, and serve 

 the double purpose of seats for the men and stowage for vege- 

 tables. The cooking-stove sits on a platform, raised about 4 to 

 6 inches above the floor, at the after end of the forecastle on 

 the starboard side. There are three lengths of sleeping berths 

 (five berths only of which are usually occupied) on the port side, 

 and two lengths on the starboard side, though it rarely happens 

 that they are all filled. Besides these there are two more berths 

 on the starboard side, aft of the " dish-closet" (which is at the 



