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No Man's Land boats

Scope note

Use for double-ended workboats, 16 to 22 feet long, originally keeled, with a hole at each end of the keel, two masts, usually with small spritsails, and later fitted with off-center centerboards; designed to be launched and beached through the surf and developed in the late nineteenth century for lobster and scallop fishing around Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and along the Rhode Island coast.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000255684

Broader Terms used

double-enders

Equivalent Terms used

No Man's Land boat

Created

13yrs ago

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