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500-Foot Freighter

Object summary

Title
500-Foot Freighter
Object ID
GO-X-A2-2(03)
Date made
circa 1927
Place made

United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT

Maker
Barbour, Robert U.
Object type
Model--Half Hull--Plating
Major collection
Nautical
Named collection
George Owen Professional Naval Architecture Collection
On view
No
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Description

Plating model of a 500-foot-long freighter with raised midship deck designed by MIT student Robert Barbour.

Some station lines have been inscribed into wood. Additional annotations inked on the surface.

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