English: Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum

Identifier: bulletinunitedst2191960unit 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. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: Thomas Howard were 79.2 feet length, 20.6 feet beam, and 7.6 feet depth in hold, 50.59 gross tons. Gift of James H. Allyn, Mystic, Connecticut. PILOT SCHOONER, 1876 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76038 Lillie The Boston pilot schooner Lillie was built at East Boston, Massachusetts, on this model by Dennison J. Lawlor in 1876. She represented the trend toward deeper bodied pilot boats that appears to have started at Boston, beginning about this date and continuing into the 1880's. The Lillie was a very successful schooner in her business, and for many years was a well known Boston pUot boat. She was afterwards sold to the New York pilots and renamed Richard K. Fox. The half-model shows a pilot-schooner hull ha\dng considerable sheer, a low freeboard, straight keel with marked drag, well rounded forefoot, curved and nearly upright stem rabbet, vertical post, a short overhang formed by the sharply raking V-shaped transom, a long and sharp entrance with much hollow at forefoot, and a long and very fine run. The mid- section is formed with a sharply rising floor, quite hollow at garboard, a high and firm turn of bilge, and tumble-home in the topside. Very little flare fonvard and bow wedge shaped to a marked degree. Mounted with a cuived and upright stem, keel, post, and rudder, and with bulwark indicated by a lift. The model is for a pilot boat 73 feet \\% inches moulded length at rail, 66 feet 10 inches between perpendiculars, 19 feet 10 inches moulded beam, and 10 feet moulded depth. Scale of the model is ]i inch to the foot. Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, shipbuilder, Chelsea, Massachusetts. PILOT SCHOONER, 1884 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76037 Hesper The celebrated Boston pilot schooner Hesper was built on this model in 1884 by Dennison J. Lawlor at East Boston, Massachusetts. She was long consid- ered the fastest pilot schooner in America and was the favorite opponent of every new schooner, yacht, or fisherman launched in Massachusetts. The Hesper had unusually sharp lines; she was longer, and was deeper and narrower in proportion, than previous pilot boats. She was designed to have all her ballast, lead and iron, inside, some years after her launching some was placed on her keel, outside. The Hesper had much influence on the Massachusetts-built fishing schooners and was one of the vessels that made depth, in proportion to length and beam, very popular in the New England fishing fleet, after 1885, as well as in later Boston pilot schooners. The Hesper (see p. 54) when old was sold by the pilots, became a yacht for a few years, and was broken up sometime after 1910. The half-model is of a pilot-schooner hull having rather strong sheer, low freeboard, a rather short, straight keel with heavy drag, the fore end much curved and fairing into a well rounded forefoot, the stem rabbet becoming straight and upright at load- line. The post is vertical; the counter short, with a very raking V-shaped transom; the entrance long, /S^r^^ L/LUE

Text Appearing After Image: Lines of the Boston Pilot Schooner Lillie, built at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1876. Taken off the builder's half-model USNM 76038. 91

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