Subject Type: Fishing

This model was scratch built from photos taken of an un-named vessel in 2014 in Qaqortoq, Greenland. It is a Norwegian-built trawler converted for use in taking minke whales.

The Finished Model Build Log Blue, italic, text indicates where I deviated from the kit instructions The Kit The Keel Bulkheads Mark each one LIGHTLY in pencil so it is easy to place them.Mark lower than I did so you do not have to sand off the writing. Ready for […]

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.

De 13 Søskende (The 13 Siblings)

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.

Essex-built mackerel seiner of 1902

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