Halibut Schooner Puritan, 1922

scale: 1/4" = 1'

42 1/2" H x 47" L x 13" D (in case)

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The actual Fishing Schooner Puritan was built in Essex, Massachusetts for Captain Jeff Thomas and launched on March 15, 1922 at the J. F. James & Son Yard. Reputed to be the fastest schooner out of Gloucester, she completed two successful fishing trips but starting on her third trip, she piled onto Sable Island and was a total loss. Puritan was only three months old and one of the last pure sailing fishing schooners (no engine).

This model of Puritan is built to 1/4" = l' scale and is fully framed out and planked, frame for frame, plank for plank, just like the original vessel. The miniature ship is complete with full interior forecastle, and aft cabin details, deck details full rigging with furled salts. It is displayed on a generic marine railway cradle. Roger Hambridge has been involved in hauling out large vessels for forty years at Mystic Seaport and understands how to properly set up the specific blocking needed for each vessel. This model depicts what you saw if you were looking at a real ship that was hauled out of the water. Most models are displayed as if they are in a yard on "blocking" and much of the supporting blocking is omitted.

Materials used on this model:
Cherry Wood: keel, frames, keelson, hull planking, spars. Basswood: decks, interior joinery, deck furniture.
Boxwood: deck machinery details, spar parts and details, some of the rigging blocks. Walnut: marine railway cradle (left raw, no finish). Rigging: linen, silk, some cotton, brass chain, brass and copper wire. Running rigging stained with Minwax “English Oak" water-based wood stain. Silkspan: (model airplane covering) used for the furled sails - with thin washes of acrylic paints.