{"product_id":"new-bedford-whaleboat","title":"NEW BEDFORD WHALEBOAT","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 1720 to 1920 nearly 60,000 whaleboats were consumed by the American whaling industry. With a useful life of no more than three years, whaleboats were discarded on the spot throughout the coastal U.S. and around the world. Remarkably, only a dozen or two have survived to become part of today's museum collections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1916, the Dartmouth Historical Society commissioned the building of a half sized model of the bark LAGODA. Local whaleboat builder Joshua Delano was retained to build the seven half-sized model whaleboats needed for the project. Delano built these models according to the design of the full-sized boats he had built for the whaling industry for more than forty years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhaling historian Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. made a thorough study of Delano s half-sized boats in order to produce this kit of a uniquely American working craft.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MODEL EXPO EUROPE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62407242711370,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1053\/4381\/1914\/files\/GI0A7139-Enhanced-NR.jpg?v=1781858588","url":"https:\/\/modelexpo-europe.eu\/products\/new-bedford-whaleboat","provider":"MODEL EXPO EUROPE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}