. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. The 3-Masted Schooner Cactus, built at Bath, Maine, in 1890. Her register dimensions were ' •'^ 34-7' ^ ', gross tons. {Smithsonian photo 2-382-a.) Maryland, about 1890. These schooners, called "rams," were intended to pass through the locks of the old Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; they usually had a centerboard and were limited in beam and length by the size of the canal locks then existing. This type of schooner normally had a short, high quarterdeck and some had hunber bow ports. The half-model shows a rather lo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. The 3-Masted Schooner Cactus, built at Bath, Maine, in 1890. Her register dimensions were ' •'^ 34-7' ^ ', gross tons. {Smithsonian photo 2-382-a.) Maryland, about 1890. These schooners, called "rams," were intended to pass through the locks of the old Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; they usually had a centerboard and were limited in beam and length by the size of the canal locks then existing. This type of schooner normally had a short, high quarterdeck and some had hunber bow ports. The half-model shows a rather long, narrow and shoal centerboard schooner hull having much sheer, a straight keel with little or no drag, a raking straight stem rabbet with small rounded forefoot, an upright post, short counter, and sharply raking and rather shallow, flat transom. The entrance and run are short and full; the hull is markedly parallel sided and boxlike for most of its length. The midsection is formed with a slightly rising straight floor, a low and sharply rounded (almost angular) bilge, and a straight and upright topside. The model, on a scale of Yi i"ch to the foot, is for a vessel 140 feet moulded length at rail, 25 feet moulded beam and 9 feet 3 inches moulded depth, to deck. Gift of James H. Allyn, Mystic, Connecticut. THREE-MASTED TRADING SCHOONER, 1920-21 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 316107 Gaviota The three-masted trading schooner Gaviota was built on the lines of this model at Catano, Puerto Rico, by Guillermo Valello, in 1920-21 for the inter-island trade. Considered a vessel suitable for her trade, and of good model, the Gaviota capsized in San Juan harbor, September 13, 1928, during the hurri- cane "San Felipe," and was a total loss. The half-model shows a three-masted schooner hull having straight sheer (the model was made this way and so lofted; however, the hull was sheered after the frames were set up) a straight keel rabbet with mod- erate drag, angular forefoot
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