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The first boat built by Captain Schank

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

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.

shipbuilding and repair
1904-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Clark, Arthur Hamilton; Putnam, G.P. and Sons
ink; paper
2 in x 5 1/2 in
United States: New York