SS America (1939)
All Photos by Ed Lines Jr.
Length: 14 feet Beam 22 inches
Toothpick Tally: 272,000 10 Gallons of Titebond III
Completion Date: 2016
Current Display: Algonquin Public Arts Program, Village Hall, 2200 Harnish Drive, Algonquin IL

The SS America was an ocean liner built before world war II by the United States Lines, a Theodore Roosevelt company. During the war, it served as a troop ship. Afterward, it was refitted as a passenger ship and largely responsible for ferrying immigrating refugees from Europe to their new home in the U.S. In 1963, it was sold to become a cruise ship. It's successor would be the SS United States.
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The Shatsky Family on the SS A...
Author: Michael Shatsky











Those are REAL deck plans. ab...

Almost done

Finally done with Jimi Hendrix...

Me with the deck plans

after booms

Putting them davits on

Forward section

putting the stacks on

last stack





Inside of the hull

below the 2nd funnel

putting the lifeboats in place
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