Rigged Model Container-ship <i>Newark</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1968
label: used date
content: 1945
notes: label: Description
content: This 1/8 inch scale model of the <i>Newark</i> was donated to the Smithsonian in 1969. The model shows the containership loaded with standard shipping containers stacked on deck. The stack of the ship is marked with the Sea-Land insignia and the containers are all marked with the Sea-Land logo.
label: Description
content: The <i>Newark</i> was built as a C-4 troopship by the Kaiser Co., Inc., at Richmond, California, in 1945, the vessel was launched as the <i>General H. B. Freeman</i>. In 1968 it was owned by the Containership Chartering Service, of Wilmington, Delaware, and converted to a containership at Todd Shipyards Corporation, in Galveston, Texas. Renamed <i>Newark</i>, it joined a fleet of "trailerships" operated by Sea-Land Service, Inc., for hauling freight. The reference to "trailers" reflects the background of Sea-Land's founder, trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean, whose early experiments with loading truck trailers on ships are acknowledged as the advent of modern intermodal, containerized transportation.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Delaware
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Texas
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sea-Land Service, Inc., Elizabeth, New Jersey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.329680
label: catalog number
content: 329680
label: accession number
content: 283578
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ship, Container
label: Other Terms
content: Ship, Container; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 66 in x 9 in x 17 1/2 in; 167.64 cm x 22.86 cm x 44.45 cm