Build Methods: Model Shipways

This boat was commonly used to transport people of “importance” on the Thames so that they could avoid using the crowded and dirty city streets of London.

Finished Model Construction Links

Essex-built mackerel seiner of 1902

The Phantom was a 19th-century pilot boat built. She helped rescue passengers on the sinking steamship SS Oregon, but was later lost herself, with all hands, in the Great Blizzard of 1888.

Unnamed vessel representative of the mid-18th century American privateers

Fair American was a American privateer in the War for Independence.

A whaleboat diorama showing the harpooner in action.

American privateer in the War of 1812

Using a spar torpedo mounted on Picket Boat No.1, Lt. William Cushing and his crew succeeded in sinking CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, on the night of 27 October 1864.

This American brig was commanded by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, whose fleet defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, 1813.