. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 66 BULLETIX 127, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Dimensions of vessel.—Length over all, 132 feet; beam, 21 feet 1 inches: depth, 8 feet 8 inches. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. Gift of Sumner, Swasey & Currier. Cat. No. 76,055 Block model of paddle-wheel steamboat. The side-Tvheel steamer Ohio, of Xewburyport, Mass., was built from this model in 1846, to ply as a packet between Newburyport and Boston. Compared with side-wheel steamers of a later date, she had full lines forward and aft, and was rather narrow am
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 66 BULLETIX 127, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Dimensions of vessel.—Length over all, 132 feet; beam, 21 feet 1 inches: depth, 8 feet 8 inches. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. Gift of Sumner, Swasey & Currier. Cat. No. 76,055 Block model of paddle-wheel steamboat. The side-Tvheel steamer Ohio, of Xewburyport, Mass., was built from this model in 1846, to ply as a packet between Newburyport and Boston. Compared with side-wheel steamers of a later date, she had full lines forward and aft, and was rather narrow amidships. The midship cross section is nearly like that of a scow, with a dead- flat floor only slightly rounded at the turn of the bilge, a feature of side-wheel steamers that is still in FIG. 14.—AMERICAN STEAM TUG " ; A wooden, carvel-built, paddle-wheel steamer, with rather full con- vex bow, flat floor, short turn to bilge, long, narrow box-shaped midship section, short stern, and wide guard projecting beyond the hull at side and stem. Dimensions of vessel.—Length over all, 133 feet 4 inches; extreme beam (on guard), 29 feet 8 inches; of hull, 19 feet 4 inches; depth of hull, 6 feet 8 inches; tonnage, 225 tons, old measurement. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. Gift of Sumner, Swasey & Currier. Cat. No. 76,056 Block model of steamship. The wooden ship-rigged steamship Meteor was built from this model at Portsmouth, N. II., and launched on May 21, 1864. She was built from subscriptions by merchants of Boston, New York, and elsewhere for the purpose of offering her to the United States Government for the pursuit of the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers, as well as blockade runners, which were then preying upon American commerce or carrjang supplies to the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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