Oil Painting of Cargo & Passenger Ship HIBUERAS, Early 20th Century
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: The cargo and passenger steamship HIBUERAS was one of a pair of fruit boats built in 1920 by the Standard Shipbuilding Corp. of Shooter’s Island, NY. They were constructed for the Cuyamel Fruit Company of New Orleans, LA, which was purchased by the United Fruit Company while the vessels were under construction. The sister ships measured 235 ft. in length by 34 ft. beam and 1,445 tons, and they had triple expansion steam engines developing 1,150 HP. HIBUERAS had ten passenger staterooms for up to 30 passengers and transported fruit from the West Indies. Its sister ship NICARO was torpedoed off Florida in May 1945, but HIBUERAS survived WW2 only to be disposed of for scrap in December 1945.
label: Description
content: Marine artist and model ship builder Joseph A. Wilhelm (1923-2003) painted this portrait of HIBUERAS in 1992.
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Art
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0039.001
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0039.001
label: accession number
content: 2013.0039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
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content: frame: 7 1/2 in x 10 9/16 in x 3/4 in; 19.05 cm x 26.82875 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: painting: 6 in x 9 in; 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm