THE FLEET.
| The Monte | - Fore and Aft Schooner |
| The Moby Dick | - Paddle Steamboat |
| The Theodore | - Fireship |
| The Pasear | - Top-sail Schooner |
| The New Corinthian | - Brig |
[THE “MONTE”]
The “Monte” was the first of our vessels, and was made out of a flat piece of wood about five inches long, shaped at one end for the bow. She had two masts of very thin wood, and was rigged as a fore and aft schooner with paper sails, which had holes in them so as to fasten them to the masts.
She had a stone underneath her to keep her upright, and a piece of string tied round her, amidships, to keep on the stone. In the picture the stone is shown through the water, so that you can see how it was fastened on, but it did not really show like that.