Object Details
- Description
- The three-masted square-rigged ship London 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.
- 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 Grasshopper and used as a convoy escort protecting groups of British ships against their enemies.
- 1967
- ID Number
- TR.327688
- catalog number
- 327688
- accession number
- 272429
- Object Name
- merchant ship, rigged model
- model, rigged merchant ship
- Other Terms
- ship; Maritime
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- iron (overall material)
- textile (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 38 in x 33 in x 12 in; 96.52 cm x 83.82 cm x 30.48 cm
- Related Publication
- On the Water online exhibition
- Related Web Publication
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Maritime
- Transportation
- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Fishing
- related event
- Revolution and the New Nation
- Record ID
- nmah_844172
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-8dae-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
