. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. "^mf /May,*, r**». fta, lie tmrtt y/// e/ NoANK Well-Smack Sloop Manhattan, built at Noank, Connecticut, in 1854 for the New York fisheries. Lines taken off builder's half-model USNM 160118. NOANK WELL-SMACK SLOOP, 1854 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160118 Manhattan The sloop-rigged well-smack Alanhattan was built from this model in 1854 at Noank, Connecticut, for local owners. Clipper built and intended as a swift sailer for use in the New York market fishery, she was similar to sloops such as the Pronto and Viva, built at New York by Wil
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. "^mf /May,*, r**». fta, lie tmrtt y/// e/ NoANK Well-Smack Sloop Manhattan, built at Noank, Connecticut, in 1854 for the New York fisheries. Lines taken off builder's half-model USNM 160118. NOANK WELL-SMACK SLOOP, 1854 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160118 Manhattan The sloop-rigged well-smack Alanhattan was built from this model in 1854 at Noank, Connecticut, for local owners. Clipper built and intended as a swift sailer for use in the New York market fishery, she was similar to sloops such as the Pronto and Viva, built at New York by William H. Webb in 1842 for the Havana, Cuba, fishery. Noank ship- builders had a great reputation for fine seagoing sloops, having built such craft for the fisheries and for whaling, sealing, and coastal trade since colonial times. The Manhattan was built at the time the large sloops were beginning to be replaced with schooners in the New York fisheries, and represents the final development of the Noank seagoing sloop model. Employed as smacks, these sloops had a fish well amidships and were rigged with a large gafT-mainsail and a single large jib, with gaff-topsail and jib topsail to be set in light weather. They also had a square course and small square topsail set flying, as in the New "\'ork pilot schooners. Some had flush decks and others low quarterdecks like that of the Man- hattan; earlier vessels had high quarterdecks like those of the North River sloops, and usually an open rail. These vessels were heavily sparred and canvassed. The half-model shows a keel, clipper sloop with straight sheer; a straight keel with some drag; raking post and stem; a short, sharj) entrance with the greatest beam well forward of midlength; and a long, lean run. The midsection shows a rising floor, rather hard bilge, and little tumble-home ai)ove. The head is long and pointed; the transom is square and raking. Scale of model is % inch to the foot, for a vessel 47 feet 9 inches moulded l
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