Country: United States

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This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War in 1898.

Race from New Orleans to St. Louis against another Mississippi paddle steamer, the Robert E. Lee, was immortalized in a lithograph by Currier and Ives.

A sidewheeler that worked lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire where the modeler used to live.

Daisy is best known for a 1912-13 voyage to South Georgia Island. On that voyage, the American Natural History Museum paid for a naturalist, Robert Cushman Murphy, to sail aboard “Daisy” to document the marine animals, especially the birds, in the Antarctic. Murphy wrote extensively about the voyage and took many photos.

The schooner Benjamin W. Latham was a fishing schooner designed by Thomas F. McManus and built by Tarr & James shipyard at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1902.

This is the yacht that won the race which came to be known as the “America’s Cup”

Mississippi River steam powered sternwheel towboat built in 1921 by the Charles Ward company in Charleston, West Virginia for the Pan American Petroleum company of New Orleans

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.