Daisy

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.

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Benjamin W. Latham

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.

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Prince, HMS

During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Prince served as a flagship of the Lord High Admiral the Duke of York (later James II & VII.) During the Battle of Solebay (1672) she was in the center of the English fleet that was attacked by the Dutch center led by Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

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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.

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America

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

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Niña

One of three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his expedition that reached the West Indies

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Livingston – Model #14

About the Model This is one of many model constructed by our departed member George Livingston. Unfortunately, George did not label any of his models. We are fairly certain it is not scratch built, and are attempting to identify the name of the vessel and the name of the kit […]

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Newsboy (tentative)

About the Model This is one of many model constructed by our departed member George Livingston. Unfortunately, George did not label any of his models. We are tentatively naming this one Newsboy, though there are noticeable differences between this and the well-known Model Shipways kit (details in the deckhouse structures, […]

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