. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of a Key West Schooner Smack of the Noank Model, the City of Havana, built at Key West, Florida, in 1877. Taken ofl'build- er's half-model USNM 76084. Sail Plan of the fishing schooner Mary Fenia/d, from a copy of the sailmaker's plans in the VVatercraft Collection. and main gaff 28 feet 6 inches. The seine Ijoat is 36 feet 6 inches overall and 8 feet 6 inches beam. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. FISHING SCHOONER, 1875 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160121 Li\7^ie W. Marheso)i The 3-masted fishint; schooner Lizzie f'. Matheson of ProN
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of a Key West Schooner Smack of the Noank Model, the City of Havana, built at Key West, Florida, in 1877. Taken ofl'build- er's half-model USNM 76084. Sail Plan of the fishing schooner Mary Fenia/d, from a copy of the sailmaker's plans in the VVatercraft Collection. and main gaff 28 feet 6 inches. The seine Ijoat is 36 feet 6 inches overall and 8 feet 6 inches beam. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. FISHING SCHOONER, 1875 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160121 Li\7^ie W. Marheso)i The 3-masted fishint; schooner Lizzie f'. Matheson of ProN'incetovvn, Massachusetts, was Ijuilt from this model at Essex by John James & C^ompany in 1875. Biu'densome but capatile of sailing? very well, she was intended for the hand-line codfishery on the Grand Banks, where she was employed during' each sum- mer; during the winter she ran to the West Indies or went coastwise, freighting. The Matheson is consid- ered to be the first schooner of her rig regularly em- ployed in the New England fishery. A 3-masted pinky schooner, the Spy. had been built at in 1823 (she measvired 70 feet Ijetween perpendiculars, 17 feet iieam, 8 feet 6 inches depth of hold, and 91 ^'95 tons, pink stern, three masts, no galleries, no head) and was intended for the Banks fishery, but it does not appear she was ever so employed. The Matheson proved successful and was followed by a numljcr of 3- masters, among them the Willie A. McKay, 1880, Henry S. Woodruff, 1886. Arthur ]'. S. Woodruff, 1888, and Cora S. McKay, 1888. all i)uilt ijy James at Essex. Later still, others were built, though the 3-master was never very popular in the fisheries. When the salt fishery ijecame unprofitable, some of these 3-masters went into other fisheries. The Woodruff, for example, became a whaler. The Matheson was lost in the West Indies in 1895. The half-model shows a rather shallow, broad hull of the coaster type, rather sharp in the entrance and with a short but fin
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