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A CO-OPERATIVE project has just been launched by the Smithsonian Institution and the Works Progress Administration of the United States, having the two objects of preserving a set of standard measured drawings of American types of fishing vessels and merchant vessels, to be placed in the Watercraft Collection of the United States National Museum, and of providing work for unemployed naval architects, draughtsmen and boat builders. The work is to be known as the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey, and the information is to be gleaned from builder's models, original drawings and the actual vessels. It is to be hoped these efforts will lead to similar projects elsewhere.
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Records of the American Mercantile Marine. Nature 138, 110 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138110d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138110d0