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Model, of fishing schooner Columbia

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made in Ratho, Midlothian

Model, of fishing schooner Columbia
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This wooden model represents the fishing schooner 'Columbia'. Designed by Boston naval architects Burgess and Paine, the 'Columbia' was built in 1923 at Essex in Massachusetts in the USA. The model was built to a scale of 1:120 by the model maker, Mr J N Cunningham of Ratho in Midlothian.

Schooners like these usually carried five or six dories - small, flat-bottomed boats. Each dorie was manned by a crew of two and carried tubs of baited lines. Catches were transferred to the schooner and packed in ice. This allowed the schooner to remain at sea for two to three months.

The yacht-like lines of 'Columbia' were the result of a century of competition among builders to produce a fast fishing boat, able to withstand the severe gales in the Newfoundland Banks and the Gulf of St Lawrence. 'Columbia' was lost at sea in 1933.

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