Model Shipways 2140
  Whaling Bark CHARLES W. MORGAN         
   Scale  1/64 

      This is a beautiful, highly detailed, 1/64th scale wooden model kit of the Whaling Bark Charles W. Morgan from Model Shipways. During her 80 years and 37 voyages, the Charles W. Morgan caught and processed more whales than any other whaling ship in history. Built in 1841 at the Hillman Brothers Shipyard on the Accent River in New Bedford, MA, she was registered at 351 tons. The Morgan was originally built fully ship-rigged, but shortly after the Civil War she was modified to become a double topsail bark. Her whaling days came to end in 1921 with the decline of whale oil prices. Purchased for Mystic Seaport in 1941, she's now a beautifully restored monument to the men who built and sailed her.

      Now you can build a true replica of this historic vessel that will be over 31" long and 22" high. This wonderful kit features laser cut basswood for Plank-on-bulkhead construction with wooden bow and stern filler blocks for easier construction, copper sheathing to cover the hull below the waterline, beech yards and mast, 140 deadeyes in three sizes, nearly 200 single and double blocks, four diameters of black running rigging and two of white standing rigging, brass ship's bell, belaying pins, eyebolts, spilt rings, strips, wire and chain, anchors, bilge pump, chocks, cleats, fire door, chimney, and galley stack, seven whaleboats, to be assembled from laser cut wooden parts, come complete with authentic scale whaling gear, and with the 40 page step-by-step instruction book this kit will be a joy to assemble and display. (Display base and pedestals not included.)
 

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