Kate, Half Model
Date made: late 19th century
Description: Builder's half model of schooner 'Kate'. This boat was 100 foot overall on deck but was built on the same model as 'Western Maid'.
Around 1910 she was carrying coal from Whitehaven to Peel. She was destroyed by fire in 1933, while in the ownership of Edward Thomas of Almwch. She was a vessel of about 220 tons built in Peel in 1877 by Graves. She was built for foreign trade but was not long in that work before being purchased by John Quirk who used her in the coal business. Many Peel men sailed in her before she was sold off-Island in 1912.
A half hull model ship (also known as a 'half hull' or 'half ship') is a wooden model ship featuring only one half of a boat's hull without rigging or other fixtures. Prior to the twentieth century, half hull model ships were constructed by shipwrights as a means of planning a ship's design and sheer and ensuring that the ship would be symmetrical. The half hulls were mounted on a board and were exact scale replicas of the actual ship's hull. With the advent of computer design, half hulls are now built as decorative nautical art and constructed after a ship is completed.
Materials: wood
Object name: Ship Model
Collection: Social History Collection
ID Number: 1954-5985
Subject tags : #MM100