CBMM Ship Plans by Harrison, John B (Builder)

These ship plans are found in the collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.

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Catalog #TitleBoat TypeArtist/MakerDate MadeDescriptionDimensionsPlace MadeFull ImageCBMM Cat. Page
1993.0038.0001.00Push BoatBoatLiener, Josef W - Designer; Harrison, John B - Builder11/21/1979Plans for a Push Boat. Lines were taken from a model of the push boat made by John B. Harrison, Tilghman Island MD for John Wilson, Tilghman Island MD. Model owned by Stanley Covington, Tilghman Island MD. Copyright did not transfer. Drawings depict the sheer, half-breadth and body plan with table of offsets. Scale is 1"=1'. Drawing was copied on 3/12/1993.[H]16in - [W]24in- Tilghman - MDImage 1
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1993.0067.0123.01Bugeye TriumphBugeyeEarle, John G - Creator; Harrison, John B - Builder1893Plans for the Bugeye Triumph drawn by John G. Earle. Lines taken from a builder's half model-built by John B. Harrison in 1893 at Tilghman Island MD. One set of Plans A-B. Plan A is a preliminary sketch of the hull lines. It has a notation to also see M.V. Brewington 'Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes', p. 158. Plan B depicts the hull lines. Material for Plan A is pencil on paper; Plan B is pencil and black ink on vellum.17.000in - 36.000in- Tilghman - MDopen CBMM page
1993.0067.0185.01Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes Jay Dee and Flying CloudNot specifiedEarle, John G - Creator; Harrison, John B - BuilderExact 12/01/1932 -Plans for the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes Jay Dee and Flying Cloud both built by John B. Harrison on Tilghman Island in 1930 and 1931 respectively. Drawing is by John G. Earle. One set of Plans A-B. Plan A is a hull lines drawing of the model used in the building of the log canoes. Plan B is a blueprint copy of Plan A with other sketches on the reverse side. Material for Plan A is black ink on vellum; Plan B is blueprint.26.500in - 46.000in- Tilghman - MDImage 1open CBMM page