Bulletin - United States National Museum (1960) (20481578036)

Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum

Identifier: bulletinunitedst2191960unit (find matches)

Year: 1877 (1870s)

Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior

Subjects: Science

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.

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tution (1878-87), was built at Essex in 1882 for Gloucester, Massachusetts owners by Arthur Dana Story. She was designed for the general deep-sea fisheries but particularly for the Grand Banks cod- fishery. The model shows a clipper fishing schooner in general hull design, but of somewhat greater capacity than the extreme clipper design of her time, having a straight keel with drag, raking stem rabbet, a long- head, nearly upright post, and a short and rather heavy counter with a wide, raking, and curved ellip- Gloucester Harbor in the i88o's, showing typical fishing schooners and a salt-carrying bark. A 2- masted lobster boat is in the right foreground. (Smith- sonian phiilo 42816-e.) Medium-Sized Gloucester Fishing Schooner, the Laura Sayward, 1882, showing stern davits for a yawl boat. (Smithsonian photo 4^Siy-d^ lical transom. The quarters are heavy as in most of her type and period. The sheer is marked, the en- trance long and sharp, and the run long and fine. The midsection is formed with a rising straight floor, hard bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the topside. The Baird measured 78.6 feet between perpendicu- lars, 22 feet beam, 8 feet depth of hold, and 78.04 gross tons. She was about 86 feet at rail. Her bowsprit was 19 feet outboard from rabbet, jib-boom 12 feet 8 inches outside of bowsprit cap, foremast 64 feet and mainmast 65 feet above deck, main-top- mast 36 feet total length, main boom 62 feet, fore- boom 25 feet, fore gaff 25 feet, main gaff 27 feet 6 inches. Model shows vessel without a fore-topmast, with all sail set, and with dories stowed upside down on deck and lashed to represent the vessel ready for a passage to or from the Grand Banks. This model is a good example of a clipper-built Grand Banks schooner of 1880-85. .Scale is )'._ inch to the foot. Purchased from John Bishop, shipbuilder, Glouces- ter, Massachusetts.

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