Rigged Model Twin-screw Intercoastal Freight Steamer <i>Lewis Luckenbach</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1919
label: used date
content: 1919-1958
notes: label: Description
content: The Luckenbach Line donated this 1/4" scale model to the Smithsonian in 1967. A portion of the model's starboard hull is cut away, revealing the ship's cargo holds packed with barrels, sacks, lumber, boxes, and coal. The engine room, bridge, crew's quarters, and passenger accommodations are also visible. The deck of the model includes winches, derricks, masts and booms for cargo handling. The single stack is painted black and displays a white "L" on a red band, the insignia of the Luckenbach Steamship Company. On the port side of the hull the name "Luckenbach Line" appears in large white letters.
label: Description
content: The steamship <i>Lewis Luckenbach</i> was built in 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., in Quincy, Massachusetts. Its dimensions were 496.2 feet long, 68.2 feet beam, and 37.2 feet depth. This was the second steamship named for the founder of the Luckenbach Line, the first having been built in 1903. With its sister ship, the Andrea Luckenbach, the second Lewis Luckenbach joined the line's fleet of intercoastal freighters on runs between New York and California. The ship could carry over 700 carloads of freight in its massive holds. Accommodations were modest compared to passenger liners, but the rates for "travel by freighter" were affordable at between $215 and $255 for roundtrip passage between Seattle and Brooklyn, NY, in 1936. During World War II the ship was converted to an Army hospital ship and renamed Louis A. Milne, for the surgeon who served New York's Port of Embarkation from 1937 to 1943. The vessel was scrapped in 1958.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Massachusetts
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
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content: Ship Models
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Luckenbach Steamship Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.327977
label: catalog number
content: 327977
label: accession number
content: 272605
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Freighter
label: Other Terms
content: Freighter; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 in x 17 1/2 in x 132 in; 86.36 cm x 44.45 cm x 335.28 cm