. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^ MiKcHAM >Shii' hd-'-iar, Iruiii a French prim in the Watt-rcrait (^.ullcLUDn i^L i'5.\M 7b4C)i)i. A good example of an American h'eighting ship of the period 1825-45, she was built at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1834 and employed in the European trade. Her register tonnage was 490, old measurement. (Smithsonian photo 44638-g.) again developed. In the meantime the coastal trade had declined tmtil, by 1940, it was almost non- existent. At the present time the American merchant marine represents an unusual condition—a seagoing trade develop
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^ MiKcHAM >Shii' hd-'-iar, Iruiii a French prim in the Watt-rcrait (^.ullcLUDn i^L i'5.\M 7b4C)i)i. A good example of an American h'eighting ship of the period 1825-45, she was built at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1834 and employed in the European trade. Her register tonnage was 490, old measurement. (Smithsonian photo 44638-g.) again developed. In the meantime the coastal trade had declined tmtil, by 1940, it was almost non- existent. At the present time the American merchant marine represents an unusual condition—a seagoing trade development unsupported by any coastal trade of consequence. The modern merchant marine is referred to in more detail under steamships (p. 114). Special Types The 19th century saw the rise of a number of special types of sailing craft. Perhaps the most important or best known were the pilot boats. The first American pilots, active in the colonial period, were self-appointed and without legal responsibilities. At some ports the pilots cruised at sea in search of vessels needing their services, at others the pilots remained ashore imtil vessels came within sight of their lookout positions. Pilots were at work in some ports at least as early as 1650, employing any suitable type of small boat. After the Revolution pilotage became a well estab- lished profession and each of the important ports had groups of pilots who used sloops or schooners of some size. The pilots at Norfolk appear to have established the initial standards of the profession; they developed a suitaiale model of small vessel, sloop or schooner rigged, for their service and as the geo- graphic conditions at the mouth of the Chespeake required them to cruise they also established the basic practice of operation. These pilot boats carried a seaworthy dinghy or "canoe" that could be carried on deck (in early times, probably a dugout boat-canoe, hence the name, but later usually a ship's yawl boat). This boat was u
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