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Fishing schooner — Continued. 



Poland, jr., builder. 54,444. This is the model of the schooner 

 Ivanboe, of Gloucester, built in 1879, and represents the ex- 

 treme clipper type of vessels employed in the mackerel, winter 

 haddock, and the halibut fisheries. 



Fishing schooner. 



Builder's model, scale £ inch to foot. Extreme clipper build, with 

 long, sharp bow; broad beam; long, concave run; large sheer; 

 circular stern, with large overhang. Dimensions of vessel: 

 length over all, 100 feet ; beam, 26 feet; depth, 9 feet 6 inches. 

 Bath, Me., 1880. Gift of C. B. Harrington, builder. 54,462. This 

 model represents the extreme clipper type of large schooners 

 employed chiefly in the mackerel fishery. 



Market-fishing schooner "Nimbus." 



Builder's model, scale J inch to foot. Painted ; mounted in medal- 

 lion ; fully rigged, with spars, sails (mainsail, foresail, jib, main 

 staysail, and main gaff-topsail) set, blocks and rigging on port 

 side. Clipper model; long, sharp bow, slightly concave at 

 water-line; long floor, merging into a long, clean, and finely 

 cut run; elliptical, slightly overhanging stern; broad beam. 

 Gloucester, Mass. 57,052. U. S. Fish Commission. This 

 model represents the extreme clipper type of schooner em- 

 ployed in the market and George's Bank cod fisheries. The 

 rig is that of a George's-man. The market-boats often carry jib- 

 boom and fore-topmast in summer, with sails to correspond. 

 Dimensions of original — Hull: Length over all, 74 feet; beam, 

 20 feet ; draught aft, 8 feet. Spars : Bowsprit, 19 feet (out- 

 side) ; foremast (above deck), 60£ feet; mainmast (above deck), 

 61J feet; main-topmast, 32 feet; mainboom, 54 feet; maingaff, 

 25 feet; foreboom, 23 feet; foregaff, 22 J feet. 



Ideal fishing schooner "Few Era." 



Builder's model, scale \ inch to foot. Starboard side of schooner; 

 painted ; mounted in medallion, and rigged with spars, sails, 

 &c, complete. Clipper; long, sharp bow; deep body; more 

 than average dead-rise; long, clean fun; full, elliptical, 

 overhanging stern, slanting upward from the lower center 

 to the corner; fine sheer; long quarter-deck. Gloucester, 

 Mass., 1883. 57,051. Designed by Capt, J. W. Collins. U. 

 S. Fish Commission. This model represents a schooner of 

 about 90 to 100 tons register, designed especially for the 

 winter fisheries. A vessel built from it would be about two 

 feet deeper than the typical American fishing schooner of the 

 same length, and about one foot less beam. It would have less 



