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Excerpt from Report of a Board of United States Naval Engineers on the Herreshoff System of Motive Machinery, 1881 The construction of the hull is composite, the frame being of angle iron planked with Southern pine and sheathed with copper; the stem and stern-post are of wood. The water-lines of the hull are excessively sharp and the angle of its dead rise proportionally great. A house erected upon the deck forms the upper portion of the cabin and of the space inclosing the machinery, forward of which is the pilot-house. A narrow passage extends between these constructions and the light bul wark rising about 30 inches above the edge of the deck. There are two masts, fitted with a light schooner rig. The draught of water of the hull proper at the stern was so small that the screw had partly to descend below the bottom of the keel in order to be wholly immersed; this required the addition of a skeg at the stern and below the keel, for the purpose of protecting the screw and of sup porting the metallic shoe which extends horizontally beneath it. The aftermost end of this shoe sustains the lower pintle of the rudder; the latter is of copper and counterbalanced with the axis at one-fourth of its breadth from the forward edge. The skeg is a right-angled triangle of wood, 15 inches deep below the bottom of the keel, at the after side of the stern-post, and 60 inches long upon the bottom of the keel from the after side of the stern-post; its breadth is 7 inches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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