Rose Ship Painting
date: label: date made
content: 1967
label: date made
content: 1964
notes: label: Description
content: This is a painting of the bulk carrier ship Rose moving at a clip from left to right in open water. It is mounted in a wooden frame and has a metal name plate that reads "In Memory of Rose Proler". Irma Rose Proler, wife of Ben Proler, was the matriarch of a family in Texas that owned a large scrap metal processing business built upon their unique design of a machine that could grind automobiles into small pieces for recycling.
label: Description
content: According to Lloyd’s Register for 1975/76, Rose was built in 1964 in Shibushi, Japan by Hitachi Shipbuilding and launched on 15 September 1964. Rose’s son Sam Proler named the vessel after his mother and visited the builder on multiple occasions to oversee construction specifications. Rose was a bulk carrier measuring 164m long, 24m beam and 14541 tons. Registered in Monrovia, Liberia, its official number was 2135 and call sign was 6ZCJ. Hitachi Shipbuilding managed the Rose for some time.
label: Description
content: In Lloyd’s Register for 1984-85, Rose was still in service, but under Maru Shipping Company, Inc. ownership. It was not listed in the 1986/87 Lloyd’s and <www.balticshipping.com> currently shows her “decommissioned or lost.”
label: Description
content: The Prolers had another bulk carrier in 1977 named Billie Fay after another family member’s wife. Originally built in Greece as Niiris and owned by the Glafki Maritime Company, the ship name was changed to Billie Fay from 1984-1996 and owned by the Maru Shipping Company Inc. It was renamed Amy N. Handysize in 1996 and remained owned by Maru until it was scrapped in 2001.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Ōsaka, Ōsaka
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rose L. Proler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2025.0025.05
label: catalog number
content: 2025.0025.05
label: accession number
content: 2025.0025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: canvas; paint; wood; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47.5 cm x 67.2 cm x 4.5 cm; 18 11/16 in x 26 15/32 in x 1 25/32 in