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Benjamin W. Latham Grand Banks Schooner

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The Benjamin W. Latham was a fishing schooner built by Tarr and James at Essex, Massachusetts in 1902. She worked first as a mackerel seiner and from 1906 as a dory trawler out of New York's Fulton Fish Market, and was lost off San Juan in 1943.

The 1:48 kit has a laser-cut false keel and fourteen bulkheads planked in basswood, and includes a plank on bulkhead seine boat built over formers.

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