. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^-^ Lines of Whaling Ship Built at Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1853. The Reindeer is an excellent exaiBple of the clipper-model whalers built for the Bering Sea whale fishery in the 1850's. Lines taken off builder's half-model USNM 160124. 14 feet 2 inches depth in hold, 449^^^5 tons, reg- ister; billet head, no galleries. Given by New Bedford Board of Trade. WHALING SHIP, 1853 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76323 Jireh Swift The whaling ship Jireh Swift was built from this half-model at Dartmouth, Massachtisetts, in 1853. This ship, one of the
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^-^ Lines of Whaling Ship Built at Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1853. The Reindeer is an excellent exaiBple of the clipper-model whalers built for the Bering Sea whale fishery in the 1850's. Lines taken off builder's half-model USNM 160124. 14 feet 2 inches depth in hold, 449^^^5 tons, reg- ister; billet head, no galleries. Given by New Bedford Board of Trade. WHALING SHIP, 1853 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76323 Jireh Swift The whaling ship Jireh Swift was built from this half-model at Dartmouth, Massachtisetts, in 1853. This ship, one of the superior class of American whal- ing vessels of her time, was noted for her speed and was a good carrier. She was rerigged as a bark in 1857, but on her third voyage was captured and i^urn- ed by the Confederate States cruiser Shenandoah in the Arctic Ocean near Bering Strait, June 22, 1865. It is claimed that the Jireh Swift would have outrun the steam cruiser had not the wind failed her. Fast- saUing was required in Bering Sea whaling if a vessel were to escape being trapped by ice floes after a sudden shift of wind. The half-model shows a wooden, clipper-hulled ship having rising floors and a slack bilge, a sharp but rather short entrance and a long, fine run. The sheer is rather straight and the keel is straight fore- and-aft; the vessel sailed with moderate drag to the keel. The stem rakes forward rather markedly; the sections in the bow show strong outward flare; the sternpost is nearly upright, and the stern is wide and square, having upper-and-lower transoms with round tuck below. The model scales 125 feet over the rails for length, 119 feet Customhouse length, 27 feet moulded beam, and 18 feet moulded depth. Scale of half-model is ]i inch to the foot. Customhouse dimensions of the Jireh Swift were 122 feet 9 inches length between perpendiculars, 28 feet 7 inches beam, 14 feet 3J4 inches depth in hold, and 454^5 tons register; billet head, no galleries. Model is painte
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