686 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [42] 



Fishing schooner. 



Builder's model, scale \ inch to foot. Moderately sharp bow; full 

 body; long run; elliptical, slightly overhanging stern. Dimen- 

 sions of vessel ; Length over all, 89 feet; beam, 22 feet 6 inches; 

 depth of hold, 8 feet 3 inches; draught of water aft, 10 feet. 

 Essex, Mass., 1863. U. S. Fish Commission. 54,474. This 

 is the model of the schooner Galena, of Gloucester, built in 

 1863, employed for several years in the general fisheries, and 

 sold to California ; also model of the schooner Prince of Wales, 

 of Gloucester, built in 1864, employed as a fishing vessel for 

 several years, and sold to Surinam, South America. It is the 

 style of large vessels still used in the general fisheries. 



Fishing schooner. 



Builder's model, scale £ inch to foot. Long, sharp bow ; broad beam ; 

 long floor verging into a long, lean run ; elliptical stern. Di- 

 mensions of vessel: Length over all, 68 feet; beam, 18 feet; 

 draught of water aft, 7 feet 6 inches. Essex, Mass., 1864. 

 Gift of Joseph Story, builder. 54,140. This model was built 

 from about 1864. It represents the extreme type of sharp ves- 

 sels at that date, and in all essential particulars may still be 

 rated as a fair model of the clipper schooner of to-day. The 

 peculiarity of these vessels and of the more extreme clipper 

 models of the present time is, that their run and floor are so 

 molded as to form part of each other. 



Fishing schooner. 



Builder's model, scale £ inch to foot. Moderately sharp bow; full 

 body; long run; elliptical, slightly overhanging stern. Dimen- 

 sions of vessel: Length over all, 72 feet; beam, 20 feet 9 inches; 

 depth of hold, 7 feet 3 inches; length of keel, 62 feet; draught 

 of water aft, 9 feet. Essex, Mass., 1867 to 1877. 54,456. This 

 model represents the moderately sharp type of sea-going fishing 

 vessels builtfrom 1867 tol877. More than thirty schooners have 

 been made on this model; among them the Howard, built in 

 1874, and still engaged in fishing from Gloucester, the Carrie 

 Louise, Cunard, Edward Grover, Aberdeen, and Nathaniel 

 Webster. The Howard has been employed in the mackerel 

 hook and seine fisheries, and the Bank cod and halibut fisheries, 

 and was the only vessel of the Gloucester fleet that rode out 

 the gale of December 10, 1876. The other vessels have been 

 engaged in the various branches of the sea-fisheries, including 

 the Greenland halibut-fishery. 



Fishing schooner. 



Builder's model, scale | inch to foot. Moderately sharp, high, round- 

 ing bow, somewhat fuller than the average; low, deep bilge; 



