This renowned New England ship model artist follows in the wake of his father, Erik Ronnberg, Sr., an internationally known modelmaker from Sweden who was once first mate aboard the last square-rigger to deliver a cargo in Boston Harbor. Born in 1944, Erik, Jr. apprenticed in his father’s Rockport, MA workshop before joining the industrial […]
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Stiletto
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 fishing business, from mackerel seining to freighting bulk herring cargoes from Newfoundland. Waterline lift hull of basswood with detailed ironwork and fittings, accurately rigged, authentically painted and fitted out for […]
Smuggler
By: Erik Ronnberg Sr. (1909 – 1989) This fine ‘extreme clipper’ schooner was built by Daniel Poland, Jr. and Charles Woodbury at Gloucester c.1877 for Gloucester owners. Because of its moderate 78’ size at 67.92 gross tons it is believed to have spent its career in the mackerel seining fisheries and would not have participated […]
Newsboy
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. A successful and famous merchant clipper-bowed brigantine, NEWSBOY was designed by D. J. Lawler and built in 1854 by Brown’s shipyard at Owls Head, Maine. She engaged in the New York – Mediterranean – West Indies “Triangular Trade”. Model is constructed from a solid wood hull via waterline-laminated lifts with […]
MS Ayer
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 model design by Willard A. Burnham. This vessel was one of three matching schooners built for John Wonson of East Gloucester. This well researched and beautifully made model depicts the […]
Little Hattie
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. This Friendship sloop, a fine example of the perfected design, was built by Wilbur Morse in Friendship, Maine c. 1900. Originally built as lobsterboats and often were sailed by one man, Friendships were fast, handy and seaworthy craft and would work under mainsail alone. LITTLE HATTIE was finally rescued from […]
Hannah
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. This wonderful and comprehensive model depicts the 78-ton “Marblehead” schooner, Hannah, probably originally owned by Colonel John Lee of Manchester, after her fitting out and commissioning for service in the Continental Navy, which had leased her in 1775. Hannah was nearly destroyed by HMS Nautilus , but was secretly rebuilt […]
Evelina M. Goulart
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. (1944 – ) Auxiliary powered Gloucester fishing schooner designed and built by Arthur D. Story, Essex, MA, 1927 for Capt. Manuel Goulart of Gloucester. LOA: 83.70′, Breadth: 21.20′, Depth: 10.20′. Model shows its 1927 swordfishing configuration with upper topmast shroud lookout rigging, bow pulpit & harpoon, four nested dories, and […]
Essex
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 carrying capacity. Full-ended, with low, rounding floors & perfectly balanced. Between 1815 and 1840, the pinky schooner became very popular in the mackerel fishing, where it was known as a […]
Columbia
By: Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. – Built as a fisherman, but was intended to be a contender for the Dennis Trophy. Designed by W. Sterling Burgess & Frank C. Paine, and built by Arthur D. Story in Essex, MA, 1923. She sailed for Halifax and the races in the same year, giving the favorite Bluenose […]