Little Industry (fl.1880); Cargo vessel; Barge; West Country sailing barge

Scale: 1:48. Full hull model of the 'Little Industry' (active 1880), a West Country sailing barge. Model is decked, equipped and rigged, with sails furled, towing a small tender astern. Built in the Truro area in the 1880s, it measured 40 feet in length by 14 feet in the beam. During the 1920s she was owned by a firm of coal merchants and millers who traded from Porthallow and Carn on the Lizard with a cargo capacity of up to 25 tons. She is an excellent example of the many small barges that traded extensively in the Falmouth area and on the Tamar and Lynher rivers north of Plymouth before the development of motor transport.

Object Details

ID: SLR1106
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails furled; Scenic model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Britten, Kenneth
Vessels: Little Industry fl.1880
Date made: 1972
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1:48