and "many valuable papers", recovered in July. According to Fred Dayton, author of the 1925 history Steamboat Days, Commonwealth was subsequently raised, "rebuilt from the burned wreck", and returned to service on her former route, before being "wrecked in a storm off Orient Point", but this account is uncorroborated. Models A number of notable models of Commonwealth were made in her time. William Foulks, partner in the shipbuilding firm that constructed Commonwealth, won the gold medal in the naval architecture division of the American Institute of New York's 27th Annual Fair in 1855 for a model of the vessel. The American jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. won the bronze medal for silverware at the Paris Exposition of 1867 for a display which included an "exquisite" silver model music box of Commonwealth. This model was made by John Dean Benton, a Tiffany silversmith, and it played ten airs of the day including ‘Nellie Bligh’ and ‘By Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon.’ An 1864 edition of Scientific American describes the model in detail: In its construction seventy-three ounces of gold were used, and two hundred and fifty-two ounces of silver, and skilled mechanics have been employed upon the work for six months, at an aggregate cost of six thousand five hundred dollars. The length of this model is thirty-one inches, and it is an exact copy of the steamer Commonwealth, made by measurement upon a diminished scale of three thirty-seconds of an inch to the foot. The workmanship is most elaborate. Not only the smoke-stacks, flag-staffs and deck machinery are carefully copied, but the panels of the saloons, the window shades, and all the intricate and delicate handiwork which appears on the steamer, are accurately represented. This piece of workmanship is supplied with machinery and music, and will undoubtedly be one of the features of the Philadelphia Fair. This model was presented to the captain of Commonwealth, Jerome Wheeler Williams, by the Norwich and New London Steamboat Company for their appreciation of his service. The model is now in the collection at The Mariners’ Museum where it is considered to be one of the gems of the collection. References Bibliography Books Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, For the Year Ending December 31, 1865, p. 544, Wright & Potter (1866), Boston Appleton's Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, (1859), p. 246, D. Appleton & Co., New York Baker,