Rigged Model of <i>C. C. Mengel, Jr.</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1916
label: used date
content: 1916-1922
name: label: maker
content: Arthur G. Henning Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Arthur G. Henning, Inc., built this model of the schooner <i>C. C. Mengel, Jr.</i> from Smithsonian plans in 1960. The 1/8" model has four masts and shows the grey hull and copper bottom of the vessel.
label: Description
content: Built in 1916 in Bath, Maine, the <i>C.C. Mengel, Jr.</i> was one of the last wooden four-masted schooners to be built for the coasting trades. At 184.2 feet long, 38.2 feet beam, and 14.9 feet deep, the vessel was designed to carry coal, lumber, and large shipments of other bulk cargos. The <i>Mengel's</i> home port was Pensacola, Florida from 1917 until 1920, when it was sold to a New York owner. The schooner's short career ended in 1922, after it was stranded in the West Indies.
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.318016
label: catalog number
content: 318016
label: accession number
content: 232898
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Schooner, Four-Mast
label: Object Name
content: schooner, four-mast, rigged model
label: Other Terms
content: Schooner, Four-Mast; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 6 in x 37 in; 53.34 cm x 15.24 cm x 93.98 cm