Ship Model, Ship <I>London</I>
date: label: Date made
content: 1967
notes: label: Description
content: The three-masted square-rigged ship <I>London</I> was built at New York in 1770 or 1771 for English owners. With so much good, close-grain wood at hand in the colonies, colonial shipbuilding prospered, and American ships sold well overseas.
label: Description
content: Measuring 92½ feet long by 26½ feet in beam, the vessel was known as a well-built, fast-sailing merchant vessel with good cargo capacity for its size. In 1776, it was purchased by the British Royal Navy as an armed ship, renamed the <I>Grasshopper</I> and used as a convoy escort protecting groups of British ships against their enemies.
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Revolution and the New Nation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Maritime
label: See more items in
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.327688
label: catalog number
content: 327688
label: accession number
content: 272429
objectType: label: Object Name
content: merchant ship, rigged model
label: Object Name
content: model, rigged merchant ship
label: Other Terms
content: ship; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: textile (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 in x 33 in x 12 in; 96.52 cm x 83.82 cm x 30.48 cm