. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. on that of all previoiis steamers designed for swif;ness, such as the U. S. S. Niagara, designed by George Steers and built before the Civil War. The half-model shows a wooden, single-screw, auxil- iary steamer hull having very moderate and graceful sheer, a straight keel with slight drag, upright stem rabbet with a much rounded forefoot, upright post, short roimd counter with flaring bulwarks, a very long and sharp entrance with marked hollow adjacent the forefoot, a short body, and a very long and rcmarkedly fine run. The midsection is lar
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. on that of all previoiis steamers designed for swif;ness, such as the U. S. S. Niagara, designed by George Steers and built before the Civil War. The half-model shows a wooden, single-screw, auxil- iary steamer hull having very moderate and graceful sheer, a straight keel with slight drag, upright stem rabbet with a much rounded forefoot, upright post, short roimd counter with flaring bulwarks, a very long and sharp entrance with marked hollow adjacent the forefoot, a short body, and a very long and rcmarkedly fine run. The midsection is large, having a very slightly rising floor, a quick, low turn of bilge, and moderate tumble-home in the topside. The Meteor was rigged as a ship, having the Forbes rig and a large spread of sail, comparable to that of some of the earlier clipper ships, it being intended that she sail equal to any sailing vessel in the world, as well as that she steam faster than any ocean-going steamer of ecjual gun power then afloat. There were then some side-wheel steamers faster under steam, but the Meteor would have been their superior in fighting qualities. She resembled some of the fast wooden cruisers built for the U. S. Navy at the end of the Civil War. The model is for a ship 198 feet moulded length at rail, 48 feet moulded beam, 18 feet 6 inches moulded depth, and 1440 tons register. Scale of model is ]i inch to the foot. Given by the designer, Dcnnison J. Lawlor, ship- builder, Chelsea, Massachusetts. IRON, PASSENGER and FREIGHT STEAMER, 1878 Rigged Model, usnm 160201 Cuba The iron single-screw steamer Cuba was built in 1878 by Neafie and Levy at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, for freight and passenger service in the Phila- delphia-Havana run. The museum records state that the model also represents the Oriental, built Ijy the same firm over ten years earlier, but this is not sup- ported by the register dimensions. The model is of a single-screw, iron steamer, brigan- tine rigged, having
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