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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Smoke stacks & Glue

My basic of tools

Deck plans

Tons of toothpicks

Nice paint job

building them planks

over 500 empty boxes of toothp...

Putting up the masts and booms



Jimi Hendrix

painting a lifeboat.
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