Modeler: Bobbitt, Jack

A Chesapeake Bay pungy that served as an oyster boat, freighter, and yacht over her 94 year career.

One of the ‘original 13’ frigates authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775

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One of the last full-rigged schooners to operate on the Great Lakes

Push boat built by and for the Charles Ward Engineering Works of Charleston, West Virginia.

The hermaphrodite brig George Latimer was employed in the West Indies sugar trade.

Ship model book author Charles G. Davis served as able-bodied seaman on this vessel.

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Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge built in Hampton, Virginia, 1916.