Ship Model <i>Dos Amigos</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1956
name: label: maker
content: Perry, Anthony
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Dos Amigos</i> was probably built at Portsmouth, Virginia in 1830. It measured 83 feet in length and 172 tons. The brigantine was designed like the swift “Baltimore clipper” schooners, which were popular in the slave trade. The design of such ships was influenced by the shallow conditions of the African slave ports, the illegal aspects of the trade, and the type of cargo. Slave ships were built to be maneuverable in the shallow African ports, and swift to evade arrest and transport their enslaved Africans quickly. They were usually schooners or brigs. <i>Dos Amigos</i> was a slaver, until it was captured by the British ship <i>Black Joke</i> on the coast of Cameroon, an island off the coast of West Africa. It was renamed <i>Fair Rosamond,</i> and placed in dry dock in Britain to have its lines taken off during the summer of 1832. It became a successful slave-catcher in its own right, capturing the slavers <i>La Pantica</i> in 1834 and <i>El Esplorado</i> and <i>La Mariposa</i> in 1836. In 1837, a drawing was made of the original rig of Fair Rosamond before it was altered. It was sold out of the Royal Navy in 1845.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Maritime
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0279.091
label: accession number
content: 2005.0279
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0279.091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ship model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pine (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: balsa wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sail cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 28 in x 11 in; 55.88 cm x 71.12 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: hull: 3 in x 17 1/2 in x 4 in; 7.62 cm x 44.45 cm x 10.16 cm