Scows were in common use in the American Great Lakes and other parts of the U.S., Canada, southern England, and New Zealand. In modern times their main purpose is for recreation and …

A scow schooner is a sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts.

Archaeological analysis and comparison of known scow schooner wreck sites helps to answer questions about the specifics of scow features on the Great Lakes and how they differed from …

May 7, 2020 · Historically, the words barge and scow have applied to everything from the flat bottomed sailing barges of the Thames, floating pleasure palaces and funerary boats to the …

Jun 17, 2022 · Most were scow-type, flat-bottomed boats that operators poled, rowed, or sailed across the water or, in the case of the Niantic ferry, pulled across using a rope line that …

Scow barges date back centuries, with early forms emerging wherever communities needed affordable ways to move low-value, high-volume goods. In North America, scows found …

Possessing a high level of integrity, ALMA is of exceptional national significance as the only American scow schooner surviving as a floating, intact representative of her type. Excerpted …

A Brief History of the Scow Class The first dinghies that were recognisably Solent Scows were built in Lymington before the First World War. Although the origin of the design is uncertain, …

European shipbuilding in New Zealand predates colonisation. In 1792–93 some sealers started building a small schooner at Luncheon Cove in Dusky Sound. They had to leave the vessel …

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