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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ntil after about 1830. This may have been because a merchant ship still had to be equipped for fighting pirates. Plate II shows the lines of a vessel of this type, the ship Australia, Owned by the Peabody Museum, Salem. (built by Hayden & Cudworth for Silsbee & Stone of Salem) of 557 tons. Although she was not built until 1849, her lines were very similar to vessels built during the two previous decades, See Model of Brig Mexican, 1824, Peabody Museum, Salem. except that the bow was hrise at half floor, on the mid-ship section. Plate III shows the lines of a California clipper ship of 1852, The Golden Eagle. Owned by Marine Society, Boston. Several vessels of different proportions were built from this model by Hayden & Cudworth, it is said. The proportion of water line length to greatest breadth, which was at the centre, was approximately five and a quarter to one. She shows eighteen inches of dead-rise at half floor on the midsection. Her water line length was eigh