. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. uilt in the period 1875-88, the majority of which were Grand Bankers, though at least one was for a time employed in the mackerel fishery as a purse- seiner. Nes'er numerous, they were apparently suc- cessful in their business but were usually considered too large for the general fisheries. A few were built in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia during World War I. Given by Thomas A. Irving, shipbuilder, Glouces- ter, Massachusetts. WELL-SMACK FISHING SCHOONER, 1883 Builder's Half Model, usnm 160115 Captain Joseph W. Collins, after entering the em
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. uilt in the period 1875-88, the majority of which were Grand Bankers, though at least one was for a time employed in the mackerel fishery as a purse- seiner. Nes'er numerous, they were apparently suc- cessful in their business but were usually considered too large for the general fisheries. A few were built in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia during World War I. Given by Thomas A. Irving, shipbuilder, Glouces- ter, Massachusetts. WELL-SMACK FISHING SCHOONER, 1883 Builder's Half Model, usnm 160115 Captain Joseph W. Collins, after entering the em- ploy of the Fish Commission, about 1880, be- gan to agitate in newspapers and elsewhere for safer fishing vessels. He had obtained the advice of com- petent designers, such as Lawlor, who had impressed upon him the need in New England fishing schooners for greater depth and heavier ballast as a necessary measure to achieve safety without making them otherwise tmdesirable vessels. Before 1883, the Com- mission had i:)egun to consider the construction of a well-smack for use as a fisheries research vessel and this gave Captain Collins a chance to propose a spe- cific design for a "model fishing ; The half-model shows a vessel having the entrance long, sharp, and somewhat hollow at the stem, with greatest beam about at midlength; the run lean and long, ending in a short counter having rather heavy quarters and a wide elliptical transom, at the bottom of which is a slight V-shaped rise from the center .\ 1 AiioLs , 1 i.,uli;m.\;.. .\uili) i uK Hlk I i.\L ^AILING QfALiTiES, the Nannie C. Bohlin, built in 1890 at Gloucester, Massachusetts, by John Bishop. Register dimensions were ' x ' x ', 96 net tons. Her captain was Tomm\- Bohlin. (Smithsonian photo 3S80-.) 472846—60- -16 221. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
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