Whaling Schooner

DateCirca 1850

Mediumwood, metal

Dimensions11 3/4 × 64 3/4 in. (29.8 × 164.5 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.2253

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionBuilder's half-hull laminate model (shipyard model) of an unidentified whaling shooner, the distingushing feature of which is the starboard-side aperture to accommodate a cutting stage (which identifies it definitively as a whaling schooner, and which is an extremely rare feature in any case). Comprised of six (6) wood lifts fastened with 8 three-quarter-inch dowels (drifts); round transom, elaborately detailed trailboard, beakhead, and nub bowsprit; mounted on an indigenous wooden backboard, fastened with metal screws.ProvenanceHyland Granby Antiques, Hyannis Port, Mass., 09/19/1996, $10,000.00.

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