Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
2006-24-228 |
Description |
View of the bottom of fishing boat and passenger vessel CHEERIO under construction at Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 1935. Hull construction appears to be complete or nearly complete. |
Object Name |
Negative, Film |
Date |
1935 |
Place |
Sturgeon Bay, WI |
Vessel Info |
Fishing tug and passenger vessel CHEERIO was 45 feet long and built at the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in 1935, hull number 101. |
Search Terms |
fishing boat Passenger Vessel Sturgeon Bay, WI Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company CHEERIO fish tug |
Credit line |
Donated in memory of Robert D. Krauss |
Provenance |
Collection of maritime photographs and negatives from Sturgeon Bay Boat Works, estate of Robert Krauss (Father of the donor). Robert Krauss died August 11, 1999. He was employed at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation in the early 1940s when the photos were taken. In 1945 or 1946 he started his own boat building company called "Krauss Kraft." He built two ferry boats for Washington Island. He worked with Walter Haertel, a naval architect from Sturgeon Bay, WI. |