. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Steam Mackerel Schooner Novelty, drawn from mould-loft drawing and checked with builder's half-model USNM 76286. In building, the foremast was placed 5 feet forward and the deckhouse was short- ened, with the fore end and the stack 4 feet farther aft than shown. in 1885 from a design by Captain H. B. Joyce. The first steam vessel in the New England offshore fisher- ies, she was designed for mackerel purse-seine fishing, using a "double-gang" of 40 men eciuipped with two purse-seines and four seine-boats. The Novelty wa
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Steam Mackerel Schooner Novelty, drawn from mould-loft drawing and checked with builder's half-model USNM 76286. In building, the foremast was placed 5 feet forward and the deckhouse was short- ened, with the fore end and the stack 4 feet farther aft than shown. in 1885 from a design by Captain H. B. Joyce. The first steam vessel in the New England offshore fisher- ies, she was designed for mackerel purse-seine fishing, using a "double-gang" of 40 men eciuipped with two purse-seines and four seine-boats. The Novelty was employed in fishing until December 1889, when she was sold to Haitian revolutionists, and was said to have become an important factor in their success be- cause of her speed, being then known as the Jihiiicl. After the revolution she was taken to Philadelphia, refitted, and, after returning again to Haiti, was sunk in a collision with the Haitian naval ship Dessaliiies in 1801. This steamer had a long sharp entrance, a long easy run, straight keel with moderate drag, rather upright and curved stem, upright post, round tugboat stern, strong sheer, and a rail fore-and-aft. The midsec- tion was formed with a rising straight floor, a full and round bilge, and nearly upright topsides. In general, the lines of this vessel were those of a sharp tugboat lengthened out. The Nonelly was rigged as a two-masted "bald- headed" schooner without a bowsprit; the sails car- ried were a boom-and-yaff mainsail, a loose-footed gaff-foresail, and a single large jib. Her mainmast was well aft; forward of it was the stack with a rather long deckhouse ha\ ing the pilothouse on the forward end. Scale ol lialf-niodel is 'i inch to the foot. The Novelty was 112 feet 6 inches nioulded length at rail, 19 feet 3 inches moulded Ijeain. She drew nearly 9 feet at post. Given by Captain H. B. Joyce. WELLED STEAM LAUNCH, 1890 Exhibition Half-Model, usnm 160103 This half-model was made from pla
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