Subject Type: Fishing

A whaleboat diorama showing the harpooner in action.

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.

The Banks Dory is a type of flat-bottomed fishing boat, typically stacked on the decks of the schooners working the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world’s richest fishing grounds

Bluenose was built to be a Canadian Grand Banks fishing schooner and to compete in the International Fishermen’s Race. In 1921, it won the trophy and continued to be a celebrated fishing vessel and racer thru 1938. Bluenose became a provicial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930, until it was wrecked in 1946.

Bluenose was built to be a Canadian Grand Banks fishing schooner and to compete in the International Fishermen’s Race. In 1921, it won the trophy and continued to be a celebrated fishing vessel and racer thru 1938. Bluenose became a provicial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930, until it was wrecked in 1946.

One of the oldest surviving commercial vessels in America, the Emma C. Berry is a fishing smack of 1866