 The Banks dories appeared in the 1830s.They were designed to be carried on mother ships and used for fishing cod at the Grand Banks.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, such as the "Gazela Primeiro", for their trip to the Grand Banks fishing grounds.