![]() ![]() Training in the family shipyard, many of these yards having been passed downįrom generation to generation. Great number of shipwrights were born with shipbuilding in their blood. The skills of various tradesmen and industries, beginning with the Shipwright who drafted the design and Of the British merchant fleet had been built in America. Before the American Revolution, about one-third Timber grew scarce in England, and it becameĬheaper to purchase vessels built in the colonies. ![]() Soon every seaport on the Atlantic coast was constructing wooden ships. ![]() Had begun contracting heartier seagoing vessels of up to 200 or more Typically weighed about 35 tons, but by century’s end, experienced shipbuilders At the turn of the eighteen century, a small sloop The simple shallops of the Pilgrim era soonĭiversified into small utility craft for local work and smaller boats forįishing and for transporting people and goods among the colonies. ![]()
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