. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of Fishing Schooner Mary Fernald, taken off the builder's half model in the Peabody Museum, Salem. Massachusetts. to market. These schooners were sharp and last sailers, ranging from about 20 to 50 gross tons, and the Storm King, a fast sailer, was long considered an excel- lent vessel of her type. Similar smacks were built in Maine for the lobster fishery, and some sloop smacks were also employed in this fishery in Massachusetts and Maine. The Storm King was a clipper-built keel schooner having a long and sharp entrance, long and fine
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of Fishing Schooner Mary Fernald, taken off the builder's half model in the Peabody Museum, Salem. Massachusetts. to market. These schooners were sharp and last sailers, ranging from about 20 to 50 gross tons, and the Storm King, a fast sailer, was long considered an excel- lent vessel of her type. Similar smacks were built in Maine for the lobster fishery, and some sloop smacks were also employed in this fishery in Massachusetts and Maine. The Storm King was a clipper-built keel schooner having a long and sharp entrance, long and fine run, marked sheer, straight keel with drag, rather upright stem rabbet with long head, and nearly upright post with short covmter and elliptical raking transom. The midsection was formed with a strongly rising floor, high and rather hard bilge, and some tumble- home in the The deck was flush, with a small trunk cabin aft, and a large fish well was built about amidships, its bottom perforated to allow circulation of salt water. Scale of model is % inch to the foot. The Storm King was 53 feet 4 inches at rail, 15 feet 8 inches beam, 7 feet 4 inches depth of hold, and drew about 7 feet 6 inches at post. The bowsprit extended 14 feet 8 inches outside the rabbet, the foremast stood 47 feet 6 inches above the deck and the mainmast 48 feet 3 inches (including 4 feet of head), and the main topmast was 16 feet in total length. The main boom was 38 feet 9 inches, the fore boom 14 feet 8 inches, the fore gaff 13 feet 4 inches, Fishing Schooner Atary Fernald built at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1875 by Poland and Woodbury. She was designed by Daniel Po- land, Jr. Rigged model 76246. (S/nlthsonian p/wlo ^^6<)j-k.) and the main gaff 17 feet 4 inches. These schooners usually carried a single large jib having a short club at foot, fore and main gaff-sails, gaff-topsail on the main, and a fisherman staysail. They were, as a rule, \-ery heavily canvassed for smacks and usua
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