After half of ship hull, Groton Iron Works, Noank

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:1650

Persons

Creator (cre): Tingley, George E., 1864-1958

Title

After half of ship hull, Groton Iron Works, Noank

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1917

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View of after half of hull of vessel under construction on the ways, Groton Iron Works, Noank yard. Workmen can be seen in front and to either side of the vessel. Handwritten in upper left: "Oct - 20 - 1917".

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : platinum print ; 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Possibly the four-masted schooner Francis J. McDonald. Groton Iron Works had its main yard on the Thames in Groton and a second yard on the site of the former Palmer shipyard in Noank. It built a number of iron and wood-hulled vessels during and after World War I, including Emergency Fleet Corporation vessels. This corporation was formed ten days after the United States entered World War I in 1917. It was commissioned to build, equip, maintain and operate merchant vessels.The Groton Iron Works Noank yard ceased production in 1919. The Groton yard continued until 1928. Embossed in lower right: "Tingley/MYSTIC, CONN." George E. Tingley was a noted Mystic area photographer. In his early career, he was an assistant and later sometime partner of Everett A. Scholfield. After 1894 he worked independently.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1974.1037.4

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After half of ship hull, Groton Iron Works, Noank

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