The Republican journal., 1904-03-10
AMERICAN COASTlNG SCHOONERS.
COMPLETE LATEST AND BEST
TYPES.
T From The Nautical Gazette.

Under the preSent-day conditions of |
our large coasting trade the fleet of
fore-and-aft schooners of the Atlantic
coast is being added to continuously.
This fleet consists not only of the ordi-
nary three and four-masted varieties,
but of five, six and even seven-masted
vessels The material that is used i'll
the construction of most of this type of
useful craft is wood, which is selected
by reason of being the most readily OBJ
tanned by the Sh!pyards that make
speciality OF turning out this particular
class of vessel Ii is also used because
It has proved to be the cheapest kind Of
material III building the lesser sizes OF
schooners. only IN the case of d few
OF the largest American-built schoon-
ers has steel been employed.
The tiye-masted size appears to be
about the limit to which wood con
Structlon can economically and con-
yenlently be carried, but a tendency is
apparent among ship owners to 60 to
the maximum limit as much as pos
sible and thereby derive the greatest
commercial advantage that size and
power may give to such vessels. Two
new ive-masted wooden schoonerS are
being constructed at the shipyard of II.
NJ. Bean, Camden, Me, for the Coast
wise transportation Co., that are of
considerable importance. They were
designed by naval architect b. B.
CroWninshield of Boston, Mass. There
is difference of 20 tt. in the length of
the two vessels, the smaller one being
of the following general dimensions:
Length of keel. $40 feet
Breadth 49,: ................ IS feet
Depth Of hold ................ "a feet
She is constructed with three full
decks and a forward house on the up
per deck The hull is built very sub
stautially of hard wood and yellow pine,
strongly fastened together. The keel
is Is in. sided and 26 in. moulded, of
hard wood or oak. The frame is double
fioored, of oak, hard wood and hackma-
tack and is moulded at the keel IS In.
and sided IL in, While the top tlmberS
are Sx12 in. The keelsons are in the
center five tiers high 14x14 in, with a
10 ill., rider, while the sister keelsonS
are three tiers high, 14X14 i'll. The cell
ing and the floor is in. next to the
keelsonS, then in, with four StrakeS
of 12xl2 in. at the bilge, and three
strakes of 14Xl4 in. Above these the
ceiling is II in. to foot of hanging knees
and 10 in. to lower deck. The beams
of the lower deck are TT. apart and IA
in. IA in., while the upper deck beams
are 10 in. x IA in., and the poop deck
beams in. IA in. The lower water
ways are IA in. IA in., having lock
strakes - in. IA in. The ceiling be-
tween decks is II in. to foot of hanging
knees and 10 in. above. The upper
deck waterways are II in. II in, with
two lock strakes l0x12 in. The lower
deck stanchions are 10 in. X IA in, and
1,4l ! In
poop deck has three rows 6 in. IA i'll.
The main deck is of spruce 3 in. 6 in,
while the poop deck is of selected hard
pine, 3Ix3a in. and the lower deck of
hard pine 3axS in. The main deck rail
is 6x12 in, and KIP in. while the chock
on top of the rail is Sx10 in. The upper
rail is 5XlO in on turned stanchlOnS.
Hanging knees in the lower hold are
ill.,, 10 in, and II ill.,, while between
decks they are 8 in. and 10 in. The
planking is to be of hard pine with
three cardboard strakes, one ln., one
in. and one 6 in. The rest of the floor
planking to turn of bilge is in. thick,
while the sides to top rail are in. thick.
The wales are specified not to be over !
in. wide. The vessel is to be square
fastened throughout. The first three
tiers and keelsOns are fastened with 8
IN. iron, ) DoltS IN Cne Irdue, going
through the keel. The balance is fas-
tened with II in. iron. All - in. and
IA in. ceiling is to be fastened with Ii
in. iron, while the balance takes II in.
iron. being also edge-bolted between
every frame with II in. iron. The wat
erway lock strakes are fastened with
II in. iron between each frame. The
vessel is to be butt bolted with copper
below IA it. line and galvanized iron
above. She is also to be bilge bolted in
12 strakes with l in. galvanized iron
bolts that are set in and plugged. The
cardboard strakes will be fastened with
Ia in. oak treenails. All in. planking
is treenailed with II in. oak. The bal
ance of the planking is fastened with
II in. locust treenails that, between
decks, go through where possible. The
treenalls of the poop deck go through