Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin228smit (find matches)
Year: 1961-1962 (1960s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior; United States National Museum
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Figure l.—Old model of the Savannah, built under the supervision of Captain Collins. This model has been removed from exhibition in the United States National Museum because of inaccuracies. (USNM 160364; Smithsonian photo 14355.) sailed for Washington, D.C., arriving on December 16. Her original logbook now on e.xhibition in the Museum,^ covers the period between March 28, 1819, when she first left New York for Savannah, to Decem- ber 1819 when she was at Washington. The old model (fig. 1) was built about 1890-1892 by Lawrence Jenson, a master shipwright and model ' A memorandum dated April 20, 1899, in the manuscript file on the watercraft collection shows that the Museum had both the rigged model and the original logbook at that time. Also in the collection were a coffee urn and miniature portrait of the Savannah's captain, Moses Rogers, that had been pre- sented to him abroad; later, these items were returned to the donor. A cup and saucer belonging to Captain Rogers also had been given to the Museum, and they are now in its his- torical collection. PAPER 21: THE PIONEER STEAMSHIP SAVANNAH: A STUDY FOR A SCALE MODEL builder of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts, under the supervision of Capt. Joseph Collins of the U.S. Fish Commission. Notes in the records of the Museum's transportation division show that the research for this model was done by Captain Collins through use of an unidentified lithograph, printed after the transatlantic voyage, and what then could be learned about American sailing ships contemporary with the Savannah. In these notes the complaint is made that no contemporary representation of the steamship had then been found. The old, inaccurate model, built to the scale of one- half inch to the foot, represents an auxiliary, side- wheel, ship-rigged steamer. The model scale meas- urements are about 120 feet in over-all length, 29 feet in beam, and 13 feet 6 inches depth in hold. The 63

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