By: Mark C. Wilkins 32’7" Oyster dredging sloop built 1891 in Smithtown, NY. Solid basswood hull with laid deck planking, built-up furniture and deckhouses of...
By: Bobb Tomsett KATE & IRIS Typical British Maldon and Colchester oyster smacks, built in 1883 and 1902, respectively. Carved of agba, painted black topsides....
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. Launched in 1882 at the Burnham Shipyard, Essex, Massachusetts, she was a ‘clipper’-bowed type fishing schooner from an original half...
By: Alexander F. Bellinger Gloucester fishing schooner, designed by Tom McManus, 1904, built byu Tarr & James in Essex. She had a long, productive career...
By: William E. Hitchcock, Nader Taheri The largest 2-masted Gloucester fishing schooner, TATTLER, built in 1901 for D.B. Smith at the Arthur D. Story yard...
By: George R. Bullitt Whether known as Rail-Bird boats, rail gunning skiffs, reed bird skiffs, push skiffs or pole skiffs, Howard Chapelle has called these...
By: Alfred (Fred) Huffman Model depicts a 50' 4" twin-screw custom-built sport fisherman designed by J. Kingdon in 1983. The hull design was engineered primarily...
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. Launched in 1910 at Gloucester, STILETTO was a semi-knockabout designed by Thomas McManus. She engaged in every branch of the...
By: Raymond Langdon This model depicts the 78-ton Marblehead schooner, probably originally owned by Colonel John Lee of Manchester. It is shown it its merchant...
By: Erik Ronnberg Sr. The double-ended hull design or ‘pinked stern’ made this weatherly and sea-worthy schooner a successful Mackerel fisheries design from the 1720’s...
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. The Essex pinky became popular c.1820, the design embodied sea-worthiness, comfort in heavy weather and good sailing qualities, combined with...
By: Gilbert Charbonneau Ship-in-bottle of the 123' McManus-designed Gloucester fishing schooner under sail. Built by Arthur D. Story and launched in 1921, L. A. Dunton...
By: William E. Hitchcock The large, round-bowed fishing schooner ONATO was built in 1904 by Oxner and Story at Essex, Massachusetts to a Thomas McManus...