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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ue of the whole. Rev. A. R. Baker, Register of Vessels Built in Medford. These vessels had much less dead-rise and fuller lines, both forward and aft. The high stern and low bow was still retained, however, and did not disappear until 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 higher and the stern lower, and the proportion of length to breadth which had been increased from less than four to one, to four and a half to one. She had eighteen inches of dead-rise at half floor, on the mid-ship section. Plate III shows the lines of a Cal