Ship Model, Ketch
date: label: Date made
content: 1978
label: original ship built
content: ca 1600
name: label: maker
content: Hoff, Jr., William Bruce
notes: label: Description
content: In 17th-century New England, the ketch (or “catch”) was a small, two-masted craft with a square stern. Ketches had small crews of around four men, and they are believed to have had fore-and-aft rigs, rather than square sails, for ease and simplicity of handling. They were used mainly for local coastal trade and for fishing on the shallow sand banks off the New England coast.
label: Description
content: In the early 18th century, this boat type disappeared from contemporary records and descriptions. It was replaced by the “scooner” or schooner, a similar boat type with a fore-and-aft rig that was easy and economical to sail. In fact, some scholars think that only the name changed, and that the two boat types were almost identical in rig and construction.
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Colonization and Settlement
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Work
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.336377
label: accession number
content: 1978.0351
label: catalog number
content: 336377
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ketch
label: Object Name
content: ketch, rigged model
label: Other Terms
content: ketch; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metals (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: textile (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 1/2 in x 19 in x 8 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 48.26 cm x 21.59 cm