Editing Dory (boat) (section)

===Banks dories===

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[[File:CSS Acadia 4.jpg|thumb|left|[[Banks dory]] used as work boat by [[CSS Acadia|CSS ''Acadia'']]]]
The Banks dory was an early dory, however, the preceded [[Swampscott dory]] preceded it by fifty years.<ref name="Chapelle85"/><ref>Gardner (1987) page 33</ref> The Banks dories first appeared in the 1830s and were probably the most numerous at their height of popularity. They were "designed specifically as a ships boat but it became so well known and so common a type that it not only was used alongshore but influenced the design of some local fishing boats".<ref name="Chapelle85">Chapelle, page 85</ref>  Adapted almost directly from the low-freeboard French river bateaus, with their straight sides and removable thwarts, bank dories could be nested inside each other and stored on the decks of fishing [[schooners]], for their trip to the [[Grand Banks]] and other fishing banks. They are not as handy or easy to row as the slightly more complicated Swampscott dories but were mass-produced in much larger numbers. Banks dories were also popular as work boats.

Although the Banks dory dates to the 1830s, it is not the first of its kind. The [[Swampscott dory]] preceded it by fifty years.<ref name="Chapelle85"/><ref>Gardner (1987) page 33</ref>