Pole/Oar – Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

18th Century Longboat

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.

Greek Bireme

This is a model of a typical Greek bireme, as would have been used in the successful battle of Salamis against the Persian invading fleet in 480 BC.

Pegasus, HMS

Pegasus was a Swan-class sloop-of-war launched in 1776. She was lost with all hands during a storm off Newfoundland in October 1777.

Whaleboat Diorama

A whaleboat diorama showing the harpooner in action.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica of the gunboat Philadelphia (referred to in contemporary documents as a gundalow or gondola) of the Continental Navy. Manned by Continental Army soldiers, she was part of a fleet under the command of General Benedict Arnold that fought the 11 October 1776 Battle of Valcour Island against a larger [glossary_exclude]Royal[/glossary_exclude] Navy fleet on Lake Champlain. Although many of the American boats in the battle were damaged, Philadelphia was one of the few that actually sank that day. On the days following the main battle, most of the other boats in the American fleet were sunk, burned, or captured. She is one of a few such vessels used during the American Revolutionary War to be raised.

Propulsion Type: Pole/Oar

18th Century Longboat

Greek Bireme

Philadelphia

Pegasus, HMS

Whaleboat Diorama

Philadelphia II

Philadelphia (Gundalow)

Amesbury Dory

Nazaré Fishing Boat

Gozzo Fishing Boats