Model Material: Wood

The 74-gun ship, which was built in varying configurations, comprised the backbone of the British Navy throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Royal Caroline, built for King George II in 1749 and named after his deceased wife, was the first British ship built specifically as a royal yacht.

Dredge winder engine and winch, built while restoring a model of Willie Bennett.

Philadelphia was a gunboat manned by Continental Army soldiers during the Battle of Valcour Island (Lake Champlain), October 1776.

Model Images

A powerful, short-range gun in use between the late 1700’s and mid 1800’s.

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.

Halve Maen (Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company ship that sailed into what is now New York in 1609. She was attempting to find a western passage to China.

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