. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. s^ ^ \ \ 1 3% T\ i\ 1 '~Tliy' \\ \ \ \ "'' -^ ii \\\ \ \ \ / ^ r—j T,,,^ ^ =55 \,\ Ik B^^. PLANS or nSHINO SCHOONER "MARY rzRNALD^' with long head, raking post with V-transom, and flush deck. The midsection is formed with a rising floor, easy bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. The deck arrangement shows a wheelbox right aft, forward of this a short trimk cabin, then two wooden pumps each well outboard from the centerline, the mainmast, a hatch, well-grating, hatch, two wooden pumps, foremast, wooden rail-to-rail, jib- sheet hor
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. s^ ^ \ \ 1 3% T\ i\ 1 '~Tliy' \\ \ \ \ "'' -^ ii \\\ \ \ \ / ^ r—j T,,,^ ^ =55 \,\ Ik B^^. PLANS or nSHINO SCHOONER "MARY rzRNALD^' with long head, raking post with V-transom, and flush deck. The midsection is formed with a rising floor, easy bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. The deck arrangement shows a wheelbox right aft, forward of this a short trimk cabin, then two wooden pumps each well outboard from the centerline, the mainmast, a hatch, well-grating, hatch, two wooden pumps, foremast, wooden rail-to-rail, jib- sheet horse, windlass, and heel bitt. The model omits the headrail of the long head employed. There are 2 shrouds on each side of each lower mast. Scale of model is % inch to the foot. The smack was about 68 feet at rail, 19 feet beam, and 6 feet 9 inches depth in hold. The rig is that of a small fore-and-main-topsail schooner having a bowsprit without cap. The vessel carries a single large jib with a short club on the foot, jib topsail, foresail and fore gaff-topsail, mainsail and main gaff-topsail, and fisherman's staysail. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. FISHING SCHOONER, 1875 Rigged Model, usnm 76246 Femald The Mary Femald, clipper fishing schooner, was built by Poland & Woodbury at Gloucester for local owners in 1875. She was intended for the summer mackerel fishery (purse-seining) and for the winter frozen-lierring trade to the Maritime Provinces. The model shows her ready for mackerel fishing, all sail set, with a seine boat on the port side and a seine stowed in it, and a dory astern. The Fernald is an example of an extreme clipper fishing schoon- er of her date, having the relatively shoal bodv, marked beam, and huge rig that combined to make this class of schooner the cause of such losses during its years of popularity in the New England fisheries. She was wrecked near \Vhitehead. Nova Scotia, in 1895 without loss of life. The model shows a long shar
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