. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. AUV'^i /â --nr/r. Lines and Details of a Chesapeake Bay Pungy Schooner, the Amanda F. Lezvis, built in 1884, one of the last of this now extinct type under sail. As taken off the vessel by the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey. flaring topside. The quarters are very thin. The vessel would have the low log rail and the long and rather light masts usual in this type of schooner. Scale of the half-model is % inch to the foot, pro- ducing a vessel about 63 feet 4 inches moulded length on deck, 19 feet 10 inches moulded beam, 5 feet 10 inc
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. AUV'^i /â --nr/r. Lines and Details of a Chesapeake Bay Pungy Schooner, the Amanda F. Lezvis, built in 1884, one of the last of this now extinct type under sail. As taken off the vessel by the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey. flaring topside. The quarters are very thin. The vessel would have the low log rail and the long and rather light masts usual in this type of schooner. Scale of the half-model is % inch to the foot, pro- ducing a vessel about 63 feet 4 inches moulded length on deck, 19 feet 10 inches moulded beam, 5 feet 10 inches moulded depth, and drawing about 6 feet at post and 5 feet forward. Given byjames K Spicer. Taylor's Island, Maryland. FISHING SCHOONER, 1850-56 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 54466 Lines Plan, usnm 160204 An unidentified schooner was built from this model at Essex, Massachusetts, sometime Ijetween 1850 and 1856 for the fresh-fish market business. These schooners, built to be swift sailers and called market- boats, were designed for short trips and brought in their catch iced. They were usually rather small carriers, about 60 feet on deck, cjuite sharp, and heavily sparred. Often referred to as sharpshooters in the late 1840's and 1850's, their model and general design were considered to have been inspired by the Chesapeake Bay pungy schooners brought to New England in that period. The half-model shows a hull having sharply rising floors carried well out and straight amidships and ending in a high and very hard bilge. This form was known as "file-bottom" at Essex because of its likeness in cross-section to a triangular file. The sheer is moderate, the keel straight and with a great deal of drag. The bo\v rakes somewhat, the sternpost rather markedly, and the transom, which is rounded athwartships, rakes sharply. The entrance is not very long but is quite sharp and the greatest beam is forward of the midlength; the run is long and easy. The stern is quite broad and ra
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