Historic Nantucket
PRISONER OF WAR MODEL This handsome model is an attractive feature in the Whaling Museum Library. During the Napoleonic Wars many French prisoners in British prisons made such models from beef bone, whalebone and tortoise shell. This is of the type called sloop-of-war, and was restored in 1937 by Charles Sayle and the late Nikita Carpenko. JANUARY 1973 Published Quarterly by NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NANTUCKET. MASSACHUSETTS
