Model of the Cargo Ship <i>Del Norte</i>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Boucher, Fred
notes: label: Description
content: After WW2, the United States Maritime Commission, in cooperation with the Delta Line, arranged for the redesign of the wartime C-3 cargo ships by naval architect George Sharp. The Delta Line used the three resulting “Del-series” ships to reestablish postwar trade with South America. <i>Del Norte</i> and its sister ships <i>Del Sud</i> and <i>Del Mar</i> were all built in the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, which had built several C-3 vessels between 1940 and 1947. <i>Del Norte</i> was the first of the three sister ships to be completed and the first to leave the shipyard on November 26, 1946.
label: Description
content: <i>Del Norte</i> measured 995 feet in length, 70 feet in beam, and 10,074 tons. It was equipped with new features not previously seen on other, similar vessels, like air conditioning for the passenger, officer and crew accommodations. It also was fitted with postwar radar. For twenty years, <i>Del Norte</i> sailed mainly between the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. In 1967, the Delta Line discontinued its passenger service because of financial difficulty, and the three sister ships were converted to express cargo liners. In 1972, <i>Del Norte</i> was chartered for a one-way trip to Indonesia. One source indicates that it was broken up for scrap after this; another implies that the ship merely disappeared from the record after completing the voyage.
label: Description
content: This model was built by Boucher Models of New York after World War II and first appears in the collection of the Insurance Company of North America around 1950.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Maritime
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0279.085
label: accession number
content: 2005.0279
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0279.085
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ship model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 62 in x 8 in; 45.72 cm x 157.48 cm x 20.32 cm