. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. sisters Powhatan, built at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1829, and the Pocahontas, built there the following year, both on this half-model. The type of brig represented by this model was developed into an extreme kettle bottom in Cushing's later vessels. The half-model represents a deep, narrow, brig- rigged vessel having a very slight sheer, straight keel with little or no drag, a rather upright and straight stem rabbet, small rounded forefoot, upright post, round tuck, upper-and-lower-transom square stern with small overhang, very short and i
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. sisters Powhatan, built at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1829, and the Pocahontas, built there the following year, both on this half-model. The type of brig represented by this model was developed into an extreme kettle bottom in Cushing's later vessels. The half-model represents a deep, narrow, brig- rigged vessel having a very slight sheer, straight keel with little or no drag, a rather upright and straight stem rabbet, small rounded forefoot, upright post, round tuck, upper-and-lower-transom square stern with small overhang, very short and ijluff entrance, a long parallel body, and a short, very full run. The midsection shows a slightly rising floor, firm bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the straight topside. The model is for a vessel 113 feet moulded length at rail, 26 feet 4 inches moulded beam, 17}^ feet moulded depth, and about 268 tons register, old measurement. Scale of the model is ^4 inch to the foot. Gi\en by John N. Gushing, Newburyport, Mas- sachusetts. MERCHANT BRIG, 1832 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76058 Palos The brig-rigged merchant vessel Pains was built on this model at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1832 for John N. Gushing of that port. She was an extreme kettle bottom, narrow, deep and with very great tumble-home in the topsides. The brig was so profit- able, largely because she carried cargo tonnage far in excess of her register tonnage (port dues were paid only on the latter), that fifteen brigs were afterwards built, most of them by Stephen Jackman, on the moulds, or model, of the Palos. Among the vessels built on this half-model, which may be said to have been the standard one for i:)rigs in the Gushing fleet, were the Carthage, Athens, Corinth, James Gray, Nicholas, James Caskie, Ark, Massachusetts, Salisbury, Smith, and Tuttle. The brig Keying was the last; launched in 1845, she cost 122, These kettle-bottom brigs traded chiefly to Europe and the \Vest Indies, bearing. h^\._^-jji^
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