A Model Of the Grand Banks Fishing Schooner BENJAMIN LATHAM

ANONYMOUS; AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY.

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A Model Of the Grand Banks Fishing Schooner BENJAMIN LATHAM
Anonymous; American, 20th century.
A solid huill model with black painted topsides and a red bottom. The deck of the model is of mahogany and is fitted with numerous details, including: anchors, windlass, pin and fife rails, chain locker, companionways, deck hatches, fishing dories, barrels, cabin top, boom crutches, ship's wheel, etc. The model is fitted with two masts with standing and running rigging, and a full suit of cotton sails. The model is displayed on a mahogany board with brass pedestals.
49¼ x 8¼ x 44 in. (125.1 x 21 x 111.8 cm.) model dimensions.

Lot Essay

The Benjamin W Latham is an outstanding example of a turn-of-the-century Grand Banks fisherman. Built in the Tarr & James Yard at Essex, Massachusetts in 1902, she sailed out of Noak, Connecticut as a mackerel Steiner. From 1906 to the end of her career, she opened as a dory trawler out of New York's Fulton Fish Market. She was lost off the coast of San Juan in 1943.

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