Tag: wooden ship

Gerda III with Howard Veisz

Mystic Seaport volunteer and researcher Howard Veisz speaks about Gerda III, a wooden work boat built in 1926 to re-supply offshore lighthouses along the Danish coast. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II, she took on another…

Roann Guided Tour – Digital Museum

Roann: Eastern-Rig Dragger Roann is one of the last surviving examples of the fishing vessels that replaced sailing schooners like the Museum’s L.A. Dunton. The eastern-rig draggers originated in the 1920s. Join Walter Ansel, Senior Shipwright at the Museum as…