Era: 1815-1914

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 model is in its early stages. Once completed, I will add a series of final […]

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.

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

Essex-built mackerel seiner of 1902

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.

Puritan was a 19th-century racing yacht, defender of the 1885 America’s Cup.

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

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

A whaleboat diorama showing the harpooner in action.