Edith F. Todd

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Type: Bugeye

Year: 1901

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Location: Oriole

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Bugeye with white hull, deck structure, bowsprit, push boat, parts of spare sail, red bottom, black iron work; brown/tan railings over white stanchions; trailboards blue, gold, red, white, and black; gold billet head. Set of four sails; numeral five on panel stitched to jib. Spars mostly natural. Name on trailboards and sides of stern. Rigged for carrying cargo; lacks winders and dredge rollers for oystering. Very nice trailboards, windlass, and planked deck. Model was entered in Mariners' 1980 Scale Ship Model Competition. NOTES: The bugeye, which gave its name to the rig used also on the three-sail bateau (see THELMA ROBERTS, MR 204/ 1954.35.1), was originally a wooden dugout boat, based on the earlier log canoes. In later years they were framed and planked, but with rounded bilge and longitudinal planking instead of the cross-planked bottom and hard-chine techniques used in the "bateau" or "skipjack" hulls (see GERTRUDE WANDS, MR 203/ 1954.36.1); their length-to-beam ratio was generally greater than that of bateau/ skipjack hulls, and they had narrow, pointed sterns, which were often surmounted, as in EDITH F. TODD, with a wider platform, known as the "patent" stern. This allowed more room for working the helm and handling the push-boat. EDITH F. TODD followed the original construction method, with a five-log hull. The bugeye rig, with smaller sails than the two-masted bateau, allowed smaller crews because it was easier to handle in heavy weather, but it had less power in light winds. NOTES: Hull from "Historic American Merchant Marine Survey" drawings Chapelle, Howard I., "Notes on Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks," in AMERICAN NEPTUNE. Vol IV (1944), pp.269-303; also available as separate reprint. See file for other sources. INVENTORY: box of parts - there is one (1) component part. VESSEL INFORMATION- VESSEL NAME: EDITH F. TODD ALL NAMES OF VESSEL: 1) EDITH F. TODD NATIONALITY: AMERICAN VESSEL TYPE: BUGEYE, KETCH VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 63.4 X 18.2 X 4.6 FT. SERVICE DATES: 1901-1947 SHIPBUILDER LOCATION: MARYLAND, ORIOLE DATE ABANDONED: 1947 ASSOCIATED (RELATED?) PLACES: CHESAPEAKE BAY	CL13148