Boat Model, Express Boat <i>Augusta Raymond</i>, 1929
date: label: date made
content: 1964
notes: label: Description
content: This model represents a launch named <i>Augusta Raymond</i>. Launches and other small speedboats were used during Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s to smuggle liquor into the United States. The <i>Augusta Raymond</i> would arrive near the shore, and then transfer goods to faster boats that smuggled them to shore. Powered by twin-screw gasoline engines, the Augusta Raymond was designed by John Alden and built in 1929 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Built in 1964 from Smithsonian plans by Donald Rosencrantz, the model represents a boat 127 feet long and 21 feet wide.
topic: label: Subject
content: Maritime
label: Subject
content: Prohibition
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
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content: Ship Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.324251
label: accession number
content: 254103
label: catalog number
content: 324251
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cargo boat
label: Object Name
content: express boat, rigged model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 48 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 123.19 cm x 21.59 cm