Survey boat GRAND
date: label: date made
content: 1921
label: associated date
content: 1923
name: label: associated institution
content: US Geological Survey
label: maker
content: Fellows and Stewart Shipbuilding Works
notes: label: Description
content: Grand is one of four boats used to survey the "ruggedest" 300 miles of the Colorado River's Grand Canyon during the 1923 expedition by the U.S. Geological Survey. Led by Col. Claude Birdseye, the expedition's primary purpose was to survey potential dam sites for the development of hydroelectric power. Indeed, the survey party mapped twenty-one new sites.
label: Description
content: Grand is eighteen feet long, with a beam of four feet, eleven inches. Heavily built of oak, spruce, and cedar, the boat weighs about 900 pounds. Grand is one of three boats ordered in 1921 by the survey's sponsors, the Edison Electric Company, and built at the Fellows and Stewart Shipbuilding Works in San Pedro. The vessels were patterned after those designed by the Kolb brothers, who had based their boats on vessels used by trappers in the upper Colorado River canyons.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, San Pedro
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Transportation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Geological Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.034381
label: catalog number
content: 034381
label: catalog number
content: 34381
label: accession number
content: 71541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boat
label: Object Name
content: boat - row boat
label: Object Name
content: boat - rowboat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: wt. 408.24 kg; 900.01984 lb
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 in x 18 ft x 4 29/32 ft; 78.74 cm x 5.4864 m x 1.49962 m