Presentation Model, Typical Wartime Freighter
Presentation Model, Typical Wartime Freighter
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- Description
- The United States entered World War I in April 1917. Within days, the federal government created the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to construct a fleet of merchant ships. The EFC hired the American International Shipbuilding Corporation to build and operate the largest shipyard in the world: Hog Island, near Philadelphia.
- This unusual ship model of a standard Emergency Fleet Corporation Type A freighter was made of solid silver in 1919 by the silversmith Carl Zapffe, Inc. of Seattle, Washington for the Association of Northwestern Shipbuilders (ANS).
- In gratitude for the nation’s massive investment in American shipbuilding during World War I, the ANS presented it to outgoing Emergency Fleet Corporation Director-General Charles Piez on 30 April 1919. The model was donated to the Smithsonian in 1976 by the nephew of the original recipient.
- Object Name
- Ship, Freighter
- ship model, freighter
- model, ship
- Other Terms
- Ship, Freighter; Ship; Maritime; Freighter
- Date made
- 1919
- recipient
- Piez, Charles
- presenter
- Association of Northwestern Shipbuilders
- referenced
- Emergency Fleet Corporation
- maker
- Zapffe, Carl
- Place Made
- United States: Washington, Seattle
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- enamel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 26 in; x 66.04 cm
- ID Number
- TR.335462
- catalog number
- 335462
- accession number
- 321772
- 1976.321772
- Credit Line
- Gift of Catherine M. and Capt. Raymond M. Kotrla, USN (Ret.)
- subject
- Fishing
- The Emergence of Modern America
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Maritime
- Military
- Transportation
- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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