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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst2191960unit (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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end. It is rigged with one mast and a loose-footed gaff-mainsail, with a single jib tacked to the stem- head. The steamer was single screw, and the hull generally resembled that of a contemporary tugboat. Scale of model is y, inch to the foot; the Golden Gate was 80 feet overall, 18 feet beam, 7 feet depth; length of the mast from deck to truck was 60 feet and of the gaff 20 feet; the foot of the mainsail measured 62 feet, luff 36 feet, head 18M feet, leach 59 feet; the foot of the jib measured 15 feet, leach 45 feet, luff 47 feet. The sails were thus large enough to make this steamer an auxiliary. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. GREAT LAKES FISHING STEAMER, 1894 Rigged Model, usnm 298233 Margaret McCann The Margaret McCann was built at Grand Haven, Michigan in 1894. "Fish-tugs" of this type were very popular in the Great Lakes fisheries after 1885. The model shows a small wooden steamer, in a))- pearance like a small harbor tug, having a straight keel with drag, a curved and rather upright stem, rounded forefoot, round stern with flaring bulwarks, vertical post, sharp entrance; and a long, easy run. The midsection is formed with a rising straight floor, firm bilge, and upright topside. The sheer is mod- erate. The pilothouse, at the fore end of the deckhouse, is slightly raised, and the whole deck structure is about one-third the length of the vessel. The model carries a small stack, boat stowed upside down on the deckhouse roof, a tall jack-staff at the bow, and an ensign and signal staff at the after end of the deckhouse. There is a net gurdy on the port side of the foredeck, a fish hatch forward of the pilothouse, and a tugboat-type iron windlass at the bow. Fish bo.xes are on the afterdeck. .Scale of the model is % inch to the foot. The Margaret McCann was 69 feet between perpendiculars, Rigged Model (USNM 285032) of the .Ste.\m Mackerel Schooner Alice M. Jacobs, built at Essex, Massacliusetts, in 1902. Her register dimensions were 133' x 24.8' x 12', 221 gross tons, 400 horsepower. (Smithsonian photos: bottom, ^^g^S-e; top, 4^gj6-d.)
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