Subject Type: Working

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.

Charles W. Morgan is an American whaling ship built in 1841.

an early 19th century Virginia pilot boat.

A whaleboat diorama showing the harpooner in action.

Built in 1891, Dorothy is the first ship constructed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia.

Log-built Chesapeake Bay buy boat constructed in 1924 by Alexander Gains in Seaford, Va. for Ferdinand Crockett. Restored by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Deltaville.

A typical Maine lobster boat.

A fishing boat from Nazare, Portugal.

Two sailor-built models of typical Genoese / Ligurian fishing boats, and a half-hull of the same vessel type.

A ttypical American commercial fishing vessel of the 1950’s.