. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Small Mackerel Seiner Oasis. built at VValdoboro, Maine, 1868. {Smithsonian photo 2821^-0.) a raking elliptical transom cur\-ecl athwartships. The entrance is long and sharp, with much hollow at forefoot, and the run is rather long and very fine. The midsection is rather heart-shaped, with a sharply rising and somewhat hollow floor, a high and rather hard bilge, and marked tumble-home in the topside. Mounted with a pointed head, cutwater, keel, post, and rudder. Scale of the model is K inch to the foot, giving a vessel about 55 feet 8'2 inch
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Small Mackerel Seiner Oasis. built at VValdoboro, Maine, 1868. {Smithsonian photo 2821^-0.) a raking elliptical transom cur\-ecl athwartships. The entrance is long and sharp, with much hollow at forefoot, and the run is rather long and very fine. The midsection is rather heart-shaped, with a sharply rising and somewhat hollow floor, a high and rather hard bilge, and marked tumble-home in the topside. Mounted with a pointed head, cutwater, keel, post, and rudder. Scale of the model is K inch to the foot, giving a vessel about 55 feet 8'2 inches loetween perpendiculars, 59 feet 10 inches moulded length at rail, 17 feet moulded beam, 6 feet 4 inches depth in hold. 9 feet 8 inches draft at post and 6 feet 4 inches forward. Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, naval architect, and shipbuilder, Chelsea, Massachusetts. FISHING SCHOONER, 1865 Rigged Model, usnm 76241 Sylp/j This model of the fishing schooner Sylph of 1865, showing her as a market fisherman, is the same \essel represented by builder's half-model usnm 76036. Considered an advanced design at her date of build- ing she was much deeper than the average in propor- tion to her length and beam. Her designer and builder, Dennison J. Lawlor, was the pioneer in the de\'elopment of safer fishing schooners in this period, designing a number of schooners of more than a\erage depth and dead rise in the years 1865-85. Tlic model shows the deck arrangement of a market fisherman of 1860-80, with a wooden windlass right forward, iron jib-sheet horse running across the deck, foremast, slide companionway with supply hatch attached, chimney, fish hatch covered with a slide Ijooby hatch, a break to quarterdeck, mast bitts, mainmast, wooden pumps, trunk cabin with chimney and slide hatch, wheelbox and quarter bitts, and mainsheet horse at extreme stern. The topsides are forest green, white band below waist line of bulwarks, white boot top, red copper bottom, rail caps black, carving gil
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