. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. feet beam, feet depth, draft about 6 feet 9 inches, and gross, net tons. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. STEAM MACKEREL-SEINING SCHOONER, 1902 Rigged Model, usnm 285032 Alice M. Jacobs The mackerel-seining steamer Alice M. Jacobs was buih at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1902 for Gloucester owners and was the largest and finest vessel of her type that had been built in New England. At the time of her launching she was much admired and received much pubHcity. but her type was not immediately copied; the sailing schooner, a
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. feet beam, feet depth, draft about 6 feet 9 inches, and gross, net tons. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. STEAM MACKEREL-SEINING SCHOONER, 1902 Rigged Model, usnm 285032 Alice M. Jacobs The mackerel-seining steamer Alice M. Jacobs was buih at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1902 for Gloucester owners and was the largest and finest vessel of her type that had been built in New England. At the time of her launching she was much admired and received much pubHcity. but her type was not immediately copied; the sailing schooner, and conversions of this class of vessel to auxiliary gasoline-engine powered schooners, continued to ])redominate in the fishery for many years. The model shows a schooner-rigged screw steamer, narrow and deep, ha\ing strong sheer, a long sharp entrance and long easy run, a straight keel with much drag, a curved and raking stem that is almost straight above the waterline, and an upright post with a round, overhanging tugijoat stern. The midsection is formed with a sharply rising floor, high easy bilge, and tum- ble-home in the topside. The model shows a small deckhouse and pilothouse well forward, a long, low quarterdeck with funnel just forward of the mainmast, and a seine boat in davits amidships on the port side. She is schooner rigged, Rigged Model (USNM 312017) of Diesel Steel Trawler Storm, built at Bath, Maine, in 1936, by the Bath Iron Works. Her register dimensions were ' X ' X ', 309 gross tons. (Smithsonian photo 36yio-a.) with single large jib tacked to stemhead, a loose- footed gaff-foresail, and a gaff-mainsail with boom. A 2-bladcd screw is shown. This vessel not in- tended to sail well; the rig was mainly for steadying the vessel. Scale of the model is ]i inch to the foot; the vessel was 142 feet at rail, 24 feet Ijeam, and 14 feet depth; the mainmast was 88 feet long, the foremast 82 feet, main boom 48 feet, and main and fore gaffs 24 feet. The
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