Impeller – Page 5 – Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

Armed Virginia Sloop

Unnamed vessel representative of the mid-18th century American privateers

Fair American

Fair American was a American privateer in the War for Independence.

Charles W. Morgan

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

America

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

Swift

an early 19th century Virginia pilot boat.

Whaleboat Diorama

A whaleboat diorama showing the harpooner in action.

Dorothy

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

F.D. Crockett

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.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica of the gunboat Philadelphia (referred to in contemporary documents as a gundalow or gondola) of the Continental Navy. Manned by Continental Army soldiers, she was part of a fleet under the command of General Benedict Arnold that fought the 11 October 1776 Battle of Valcour Island against a larger [glossary_exclude]Royal[/glossary_exclude] Navy fleet on Lake Champlain. Although many of the American boats in the battle were damaged, Philadelphia was one of the few that actually sank that day. On the days following the main battle, most of the other boats in the American fleet were sunk, burned, or captured. She is one of a few such vessels used during the American Revolutionary War to be raised.

Lois McClure

The schooner Lois McClure is the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s full-scale replica of an 1862-class sailing canal boat, based closely on two shipwrecks located in Burlington Harbor. Each season, the Lois tours regional waterways, welcoming the public aboard to experience local history in a modern context.

Propulsion Type: Impeller