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The Emma C. Berry is a wet-well Fishing Smack, built by the J.W. Palmer Shipyard at Noank, Connecticut, USA and launched June 6,1866. She hauled fish and various other cargoes for many years and ended up on a mud flat off the coast of Maine, where she was found by Mr. Slade Dale of New York in 1934 and restored as a pleasure yacht. She was originally sloop rigged but Dale added a 2nd mast and re-rigged her as a fore and aft schooner and he used her for pleasure until 1969, when he turned her over to Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut where she still is today, as part of the extensive fleet of historic ships and boats housed at their facility. The model was built from plans drawn by Ben Langford as part of a commercial package (kit) offered by Model Shipways, but the model seen here was entirely hand-crafted using eastern white clear pine and has hand cut tree-nails of Swiss pear wood. The 25b frames are built authentically, each one being made up of multiple sections (futtocks). The Berry is built in a style called full-frame building and it is done in Admiralty style with the deck and both sides of the hull left open so the interior may be viewed, The Foc'sle and Coach houch are finished inside with lockers and berths and in the Coach house is a carved pot-bellied wood stove. This model took approximately 600 + man-hours to prepare and build from scratch.

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The Emma C. Berry on Refit 1997
NAME OF MODEL - Emma C. Berry NAME OF ORIGINAL OWNER - John F. Green NAME OF CURRENT OWNER - John F. Green LOCATION OF MODEL - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada NAME OF BUILDER - John F. Green YEAR THE MODEL WAS BUILT - 2003 SCALE OF MODEL - 1:32 DIMENSIONS OF MODEL/CASE - L at rail-18" - Beam- 5 5/8" - Height- 4 1/2" keel face to top mast stub IS THE MODEL SIGNED - WHERE ? - Yes-on the keel deadwood, aft. OWNER'S E-MAIL ADDRESS- jamd@accesscable.net	Click to Enlarge
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A Short History of the Ship The Emma C. Berry is a wet-well Fishing Smack, built by the J.W. Palmer Shipyard at Noank, Connecticut, USA and launched June 6,1866. She hauled fish and various other cargoes for many years and ended up on a mud flat off the coast of Maine, where she was found by Mr. Slade Dale of New York in 1934 and restored as a pleasure yacht. She was originally sloop rigged but Dale added a 2nd mast and re-rigged her as a fore and aft schooner and he used her for pleasure until 1969, when he turned her over to Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut where she still is today, as part of the extensive fleet of historic ships and boats housed at their facility. The model was built from plans drawn by Ben Langford as part of a commercial package (kit) offered by Model Shipways, but the model seen here was entirely hand-crafted using eastern white clear pine and has hand cut tree-nails of Swiss pear wood. The 25b frames are built authentically, each one being made up of multiple sections (futtocks). The Berry is built in a style called full-frame building and it is done in Admiralty style with the deck and both sides of the hull left open so the interior may be viewed, The Foc'sle and Coach houch are finished inside with lockers and berths and in the Coach house is a carved pot-bellied wood stove. This model took approximately 600 + man-hours to prepare and build from scratch. Return to Merchant and Fishing Craft