half hull model ship
{{short description|Wooden model featuring only one half of a boat's hull}}
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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.
Background
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."Encyclopedia of American Folk Art,"
By Gerard C. Wertkin, Lee Kogan, American Folk Art Museum
Contributor Gerard C. Wertkin, Lee Kogan
Edition: illustrated
Published by Taylor & Francis, 2004
{{ISBN|0-415-92986-5}}, 978-0-415-92986-8
[https://books.google.com/books?id=iKV2F_AJQ9MC&pg=RA2-PA297&dq=half+hull+model+ship&lr=#PRA2-PA297,M1] (accessed Google Book search January 14, 2009)"Half-Hull Modeling," (The Apprenticeshop, Bath, ME USA:1980)
File:Peabody Museum half hulls.jpg models (built 1809–1870 of Salem, Massachusetts ships) at the Peabody Essex Museum]]
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.halfhullshipmodels.com/smf/index.php?topic=29.0 Half Hull Boat Modelling:An Old Art Turned Full Circle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929003729/http://www.halfhullshipmodels.com/smf/index.php?topic=29.0 |date=2020-09-29 }}
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