Ship Model, Colonial Sloop
date: label: Date made
content: 1960
label: date made
content: 1768
name: label: maker
content: Arthur G. Henning Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: During the period of North American colonization and early settlement, sloops formed the backbone of the trade along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and to the West Indies. They often sailed as smugglers and warships, too. This armed example from the late 1760s, with oars to maneuver in calms, is similar to craft used by Caribbean pirates a century earlier.
label: Description
content: Little coastal sloops were the tractor-trailers of the colonial period, populating the waters along the eastern coast of North America right down to the Caribbean islands. Heavily built for bad weather and rough sea conditions, they were simple to sail, roomy for lots of cargo and passengers, easily handled by small crews, relatively swift, and usually armed for self defense wherever they might sail. They were also simple to build and inexpensive, so that if one were lost, it might not cause a crippling financial loss to its owners.
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Revolution and the New Nation
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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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.318281
label: catalog number
content: 318281
label: accession number
content: 234477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sloop
label: Object Name
content: model, rigged sloop
label: Other Terms
content: sloop; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: textile (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 13 in x 5 in; 22.86 cm x 33.02 cm x 12.7 cm