This interesting fishing boat, recorded in François-Edmond Pâris’s work “Souvenirs de marine. Collection de plans ou dessins de navires et de bateaux anciens ou modernes existants ou disparus avec les éléments numériques nécessaores à leur construction,” features a “live well” with openings in the hull that allow fresh seawater to circulate through part of the hold to keep the catch alive until the ship reached the dock.

This is one of more than 90 plates featured in our collection “Selected Plates from Souvenirs de Marine: Ship Plans by Vice-Admiral Francois-Edmond Paris,” that combines the plates from the first two of the six volumes of Paris’s far-reaching collection of drawings of ships and boats from around the world. This book would be a great introduction to the work of François-Edmond Pâris for the model ship builder, or a chance for the more experienced model ship builder to take a deep dive into the ships that were rapidly disappearing at the end of the 19th Century as steam overtook and supplanted sail.

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