Ship Model, Sloop <I>Mediator</I>
date: label: Date made
content: 1962
notes: label: Description
content: During the period of North American colonization and early settlement, coastal commerce linked North America’s largest cities and towns. Fast Chesapeake Bay sloops such as the <I>Mediator</I> regularly called at ports from New Hampshire to Georgia, and in many British, French, and Dutch harbors in the Caribbean.
label: Description
content: Dating from around 1741, the sloop’s design was adapted from small, swift vessels developed in the West Indies. These maneuverable little shallow-draft vessels carried general cargoes, ranging from dried fish, timber products, slaves, rum, mail, wines, tobacco, sugar, molasses, and whatever paid the owners to transport.
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: 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.319818
label: catalog number
content: 319818
label: accession number
content: 241529
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ship
label: Object Name
content: ship model
label: Object Name
content: sloop, rigged ship model
label: Other Terms
content: Ship; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 36 in x 10 in; 63.5 cm x 91.44 cm x 25.4 cm