“The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,” (Song of Myself, 41)

“or off on a cruise with fishers in a fishing smack” (“Walt Whitman, A Brooklyn Boy”)

Smack, n.:

1. A single-masted sailing-vessel, fore-and-aft rigged like a sloop or cutter, and usually of light burden, chiefly employed as a coaster or for fishing, and formerly as a tender to a ship of war.

b. U.S. A fishing-vessel having a well in which fish may be kept alive.

(Oxford English Dictionary)

A fishing smack named the Victorious. (www.victorious.co.uk)

A fishing smack named the Victorious. (www.victorious.co.uk)