. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATEECEAET COLLECTIOX, 137 held that it would be unsafe to have a vessel sharp on the rail. It was thought that with a strong flare above water, and a full round bow at the rail, a vessel would be safer and not so liable to plunge heavily into a sea. Consequently, fishing schooners were often built that way; the Elisha Holmes is a good example. This was a carvel-built, wooden, keel vessel; bow flaring, full and round on top, convexly sharper below; curved raking stem; long head; long straight sides; comparatively narrow beam
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATEECEAET COLLECTIOX, 137 held that it would be unsafe to have a vessel sharp on the rail. It was thought that with a strong flare above water, and a full round bow at the rail, a vessel would be safer and not so liable to plunge heavily into a sea. Consequently, fishing schooners were often built that way; the Elisha Holmes is a good example. This was a carvel-built, wooden, keel vessel; bow flaring, full and round on top, convexly sharper below; curved raking stem; long head; long straight sides; comparatively narrow beam: low bilge,. FIG. 35. NEW ENGLAND SCHOONER " ELISHA ; short floor; long, but rather full run; broad square stern. Rigged as a two-masted schooner with a single topmast, carrying jib, fore- sail, mainsail, and main staysail. Dimensions of vessel.—Length over all, 67 feet; on lower water line, 64 feet; beam, 18 feet; depth of hold, 7 feet 6 inches; extreme draft, 9 feet 6 inches; bowsprit, extreme length, 32 feet; foremast, above deck, 60 feet; mainmast, above deck, 61 feet; foreboom, 21 feet; foregaff, 20 feet; main boom, 44 feet; main gaff, 21 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. Vessels of this class were employed chiefly in the codfishery on (xeorges Bank, and in the summer mackerel fisher3\ Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,247 24166— 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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