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Model Shipways NEW BEDFORD WHALEBOAT 1:16 SCALE

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Model Shipways NEW BEDFORD WHALEBOAT 1:16 SCALENew Bedford Whaleboat c. 1850 1870 1: 16 Scale by Model Shipways Plank on Frame Kit From 1720 to 1920 nearly 60,000 whaleboats were consumed by the American whaling industry. With a useful life of no more than three years, whaleboats were discarded on the spot throughout the coastal U. S. and around the world. Remarkably, only a dozen or two have survived to become part of today's museum collections. In 1916, the Dartmouth Historical Society

New Bedford Whaleboat c. 1850 -1870 / 1:16 Scale

by Model Shipways Plank-on-Frame Kit

From 1720 to 1920 nearly 60,000 whaleboats were consumed by the American whaling industry. With a useful life of no more than three years, whaleboats were discarded on the spot throughout the coastal U.S. and around the world. Remarkably, only a dozen or two have survived to become part of today's museum collections.

In 1916, the Dartmouth Historical Society commissioned the building of a half sized model of the bark LAGODA. Local whaleboat builder Joshua Delano was retained to build the seven half-sized model whaleboats needed for the project. Delano built these models according to the design of the full-sized boats he had built for the whaling industry for more than forty years.

Whaling historian Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. made a thorough study of Delano s half-sized boats in order to produce this kit of a uniquely American working craft.

You'll follow the original plank-on-frame method of construction in building your Model Expo - kit. Hull planks, oar and paddle blades, tubs, casks and rudder are accurately laser cut basswood. Authentic scale whaling gear gives this kit remarkable detail. Photo-etched copper fittings include harpoon, lance and cutting spade heads, knife blades, oarlocks and mast hinge hardware.

KIT FEATURES

Authentic plank-on-frame construction duplicates original construction techniques

Laser cut basswood components

Photo-etched copper fittings include harpoon, lance and cutting spade heads, knife blades, oarlocks and mast hinge hardware

Cast Britannia compass bowl and bomb lance gun

Sailcloth & three diameters rigging line

Six sheets of precise, highly detailed plans

150-page illustrated instruction book

Our Model Shipways New Bedord Whaleboat kit is supported by a superb set (6 sheets) of plans and a 150 page instruction book by Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. The book, To Build a Whaleboat, gives you step-by-step building instructions, design and technical data. (Display base and pedestals not included.)


Model Expo - No. MS2033

Length 24" / Height 4-5/8" / Scale 3/4" = 1 ft (1:16)

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