. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Rigged Model USNM 311006, of the Trans-Atlantic Liner Maurelania, built at Wallscnd-on-Tyne in 1907 for the Cunard Line. When a passenger hner suffers a disaster, it is customary to change the name of the model to that of her sister ship. The claim is made that this model was originally of the Lusitania. {Smithsonian bhoto 22o6g.) upper deck. Her gross tonnage was 31,940. Scale of model is '4 inch to the foot. Her indicated horsepower was 70,000 and her service speed 25 knots. Her maiden voyage to New York in November 1907 was accomplished i
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Rigged Model USNM 311006, of the Trans-Atlantic Liner Maurelania, built at Wallscnd-on-Tyne in 1907 for the Cunard Line. When a passenger hner suffers a disaster, it is customary to change the name of the model to that of her sister ship. The claim is made that this model was originally of the Lusitania. {Smithsonian bhoto 22o6g.) upper deck. Her gross tonnage was 31,940. Scale of model is '4 inch to the foot. Her indicated horsepower was 70,000 and her service speed 25 knots. Her maiden voyage to New York in November 1907 was accomplished in 5 days, 5 hours and 10 minutes, then a record. In March 1909 she ran from Queenstown to New York in 4 days, 12 hours and 6 minutes, and for years held the speed records for both eastward and westward passages imtil the North German Lloyd liner Bremen made her maiden voyage in July 1929. She was later employed for cruising service out of New York, and made her last voyage in the fall of 1934. Ex- clusive of wartime service, she made 269 double crossings of the Atlantic. Affectionately known as the Grand Old Lady of the .\tlantic, she was broken up at Rosyth. Given by Franklin D. RoosexcJt. SINGLE-SCREW STEEL FREIGHTER, 1919 Rigged Model, usnm 306999 American Merchant^ ex Camhrai^ ex Shohokin This model of a steel single-screw freight steamer represents a class of 12 prefabricated army transports, built by the American International Shipbuilding Corporation at Hog Island in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, for the LT. S. Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, of which 11 were delivered to the U. S. Army and one to the LT. S. Navy. The model is of the Shohokin: her keel was laid November 9, 1918. and she was commissioned October 30, 1920. The design was intended to produce a swift freighter and transport for wartime use. Later named Camhrai, the \essel was renamed American Merchant when trans- ferred to private operators. The model shows a steel single-screw cargo steamer hav
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