Oil Painting of Cargo Ship I-YUNG, ca. 1990
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: The USS BOLINAS was built in 1942 at Seattle, WA by the Seattle-Tacoma Ship Builders. Measuring 496 ft in length by 69.5 ft in breadth and 8,333 tons, BOLINAS was built as an aircraft carrier with a 470-ft. flight deck for British convoy escort service during WW2. After WWII it was returned to the US government, sold, and rebuilt into the cargo ship RAKI in 1948. In 1966 it was purchased by the Orient Overseas Line of Hong Kong and renamed I-YUNG. Orient Overseas owned the I-YUNG until 1974, when it was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
label: Description
content: This portrait depicts the I-YUNG at Pier 1 at the Port Authority building in Brooklyn, NY. It is signed “Joe Wilhelm” in the lower right by ship model builder and marine artist Joseph A. Wilhelm (1923-2003), who painted his first ship portrait at the age of 52.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0039.002
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0039.002
label: accession number
content: 2013.0039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oil paint (painting material)
label: Measurements
content: painting: 8 1/16 in x 10 in x 1/8 in; 20.47875 cm x 25.4 cm x .3175 cm