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The clipper-bowed
merchant brigantine Newsboy is one of the earliest designs of
Dennison J. Lawlor. She was built by Elisha Brown in 1854 at Owls Head,
ME at a cost of $20,000.00. Plying the New York – Mediterranean – West
Indies “Triangular Trade” route, she carried New England manufactured
goods to the Mediterranean, where she picked up wine, oils and fruits
bound for the West Indies. From there, she returned to New England, her
holds filled with rum, molasses and sugar.
Model Shipways’ Newsboy kit
features a solid wooden hull that’s machine carved to the proper shape.
We supply laser cut basswood parts for the cabin, companionways, keel,
rudder and sternpost, plus beech dowels for masts and yards. Properly
scaled Britannia metal castings include anchor, windlass, pump,
binnacle, figurehead and lifeboat. Chains, nails, eyebolts, belaying
pins and other small parts are brass and copper. More than 200 blocks
and deadeyes plus five diameters of miniature rope recreate life-like
rigging. Hull templates, two sheets of plans and updated instruction
book by Ben Lankford help you build a beautiful model.
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(Display base with brass pedestals not included with kit.)
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