Ship Model, Steam Schooner <I>Royal</I>
date: label: date made
content: 1891
name: label: maker
content: Turner, Matthew
notes: label: Description
content: This model represents a vessel powered by both steam and sail power. An auxiliary schooner, the <I>Royal</I> was one of several built after 1890 for use in the Alaska salmon fishery. Tenders like the <I>Royal</I> transported workers and supplies, and carried fish packed at remote canneries. The model shows a deckhouse with a pilothouse forward, a fish hatch, and a slide companionway to the forecastle.
label: Description
content: The <I>Royal</I> was built in 1891 by Matthew Turner at Benicia, California. Turner, born in Ohio in 1825, grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, where he learned about fishing and the ship-building trades. In 1850 he joined the throngs of fortune-seekers heading to the California gold rush. After some success in the gold fields, he returned east but was soon back on the West Coast, where he organized a trading company that shipped lumber and other cargoes. He also began building ships, and in 1882 he moved his operations to Benicia, on Suisun Bay, northeast of San Francisco. A prolific builder, Turner launched some 228 sailing vessels in his career. The site of Turner’s Benicia shipyard was registered as a California Historical Landmark in 1987.
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: The Development of the Industrial United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.076238
label: catalog number
content: 076238
label: accession number
content: 28022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boat, harbor
label: Object Name
content: Steam schooner
label: Object Name
content: ship model, schooner, steam
label: Object Name
content: Ship model
label: Object Name
content: Ship model, Steam schooner
label: Object Name
content: Model, Steam schooner
label: Object Name
content: ship model, steam schooner
label: Object Name
content: model, ship
label: Other Terms
content: boat, harbor; Steam schooner; Maritime; Steam, Auxillary
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: 36 in x 49 in x 12 in; 91.44 cm x 124.46 cm x 30.48 cm