. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Halibut-Fishing Schooner Being Tripped by a Heav\' Sea. Usually this caused loss of vessel and crew. Drawn by H. Elliott under the direction of Capt. J. W. Collins. From G. Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1884-87. construction of a new class of clipper fishermen. These were much sharper and longer m the entrance than the older sharpshooter, though with the same long and easy run; and were very straight in the buttocks. The new schooners, however, had less depth a
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Halibut-Fishing Schooner Being Tripped by a Heav\' Sea. Usually this caused loss of vessel and crew. Drawn by H. Elliott under the direction of Capt. J. W. Collins. From G. Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1884-87. construction of a new class of clipper fishermen. These were much sharper and longer m the entrance than the older sharpshooter, though with the same long and easy run; and were very straight in the buttocks. The new schooners, however, had less depth and dead rise in the midsection, and had low and hard bilges. The model resembled that of a centerboard schooner having some dead rise but with a deep keel outside the rabbet in lieu of a center- board. It was quickly found that the new model could carry a large sail area and was stiff, and that the new schooners were very fast. By 1859 the build- ing of the sharpshooter had almost ceased and all but the "salt bankers" were being built as clippers. The clipper model was to predominate for about 25 years. In the 1860's a few rather deep schooners were Isuilt for the market fishery, but the trend in design was generally toward the extreme clipper having a \-ery shoal-draft body for a keel sailing vessel. The greatest beam was now well abaft the midlength, the stern was wide and the quarters heavy, the freeboard was low, the entrance became very long and sharp with much hollow at the forefoot, the run was also long and hollow near the post, and the buttocks were often extremely flat and straight. The Fast, Safe Fisherman However, it soon began to be apparent that some- thing was wrong. The rise in prosperity in the New England fisheries was general from the late 1840's on and the banks had become so crowded with schooners that when a severe gale swept the fishing grounds heavy losses through collisions, caused by vessels going adrift, could be expected. But it became appa
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