Boston Packet
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The Boston Packet: Sailing ships and the more recent steamers keeping to a regular schedule were called "packets". One of these packets was the Liverpool-Boston Packet, which brought half the population of Ireland over to the New World. The ship's half-hull has the "yard-lines" drawn on. Traditionally half-hulls were made by the yard as a 3 - dimensional model of the ship about to be built. The hull lines and the main sections of the steel plates were loosely sketched on the model. The Boston Packet was later adopted as the name of a seedy harbor establishment. (H: 13.25", W: 23.75")