Item  #  A2003

Charles W. Morgan 32"

• 32" long x 9" Wide x 25 " High (1:42 scale).  20 Lbs.
• Meticulously painted to the actual Charles Morgan.
• Masterfully stitched, thick canvass sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
• Perfectly taught rigging of various colors and thickness to increase authenticity.
• Amazing deck details.
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, teak, white pine, birch and maple.
• The model rests perfectly on a large, wood base between four arched metal dolphins (marble base pictured).
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.

In the 1840s, a Quaker whaling merchant named Charles W. Morgan ordered a whale ship from the shipbuilders Jethro and Zachariah Hillman of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The hull and deck of Morgan reflected the industry which she was built to serve. A typical whale ship has three functions:

1. to serve as a mother ship to a fleet of small whaleboats, which are stored on the davits when not in use,
2. to serve as a factory and a refinery ship with tryworks for extracting oil from the whale blubber,
3. to serve as oil tankers.

Morgan's maiden voyage began on September 6, 1841. She sailed around Cape Horn and cruised the Pacific Ocean. Following Morgan's three year and four month voyage, she came home with 2,400 barrels of whale oil and 10,000 lbs of whalebone, known as baleen, which was worth around USD$56,000.