The first boat built by Captain Schank

Object summary

Title: The first boat built by Captain Schank
Object ID: CC-P-0113
Date made: 1904
Place made: United States, New York
Engraver: Clark, Arthur Hamilton
Publisher: Putnam, G.P. and Sons
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A sideview engraving of British Captain John Schank's first boat with a sliding keel. While stationed at Boston, MA in 1774, Schank built the first vessel fitted with a "sliding keel", as he termed it. It worked vertically through a trunk or well, and the keel of the boat.