Miscellaneous Commercial Sail collection [naval architecture drawings], 1880-1985

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Miscellaneous Commercial Sail collection [naval architecture drawings], 1880-1985

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63200926

This collection is composed of plans received individually or in groups small enough that the creation of a distinct collection is not required. This collection will continue to grow and expand as additional plans are received.

442 (+) sheets representing 129 (+) designs

G. W. Blunt White Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884385

G. W. Blunt White Library

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McKay, Donald, 1810-1880

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Donald McKay was a naval architect and shipbuilder of Boston, famed as a designer and builder of clipper ships. When wooden ships were threatened with obsolescence after 1857, McKay travelled in Europe, where he studied British and French naval matters thoroughly. McKay became a leading advocate of steam-screw ironclads for the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, but his designs were eventually rejected, primarily because their grand scale exceeded the ability of manufacturers to execute them. ...

Great Republic (Bark)

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Miscellaneous Commercial Sail

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This collection contains miscellaneous plans for commercial sailing vessels carrying passengers or cargo, of any period or nationality, ocean or costs, including those with auxiliary power. Fishing vessels are not included. The collection represents the work of a wide variety of designers and builders, some of whom are still in business. Most of the plans are copies, rather than originals, and many of the designs do not have complete construction plans. From the description of Miscel...

Flying Cloud (Ship : 1851)

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Thomas W. Lawson (Schooner)

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Chapelle, Howard Irving.

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Schock, Edson Irwin, 1897-

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David Crockett (Clipper ship)

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Charles Mallory & Sons

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Helen Barnet Gring (Schooner)

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Four-masted coasting schooner built in 1919 by Robert L. Bean of Camden, Me., for the Boston, Mass., shipping firm of Crowell and Thurlow; shipwrecked and lost off Cay Verde, Cuba, Oct. 22, 1940; also known as THE GRING. From the description of Records of the schooner Helen Barnet Gring, 1920-1927. (Mystic Seaport Museum, G W Blunt White Library). WorldCat record id: 47870982 Four-masted coasting schooner built in 1919 by Robert L. Bean of Camden, Me., for the Boston, Mass.,...

Andrew Jackson (Ship)

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Benjamin F. Packard (Ship : 1883)

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Challenge (Ship)

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Herbert L. Rawding (Schooner)

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Amistad (Schooner)

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Young America (Ship)

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Leavitt, John Faunce, 1905-1974

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