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Ernest Hemingway owned a 38-foot (12 m) fishing boat named Pilar. It was acquired in April 1934 from Wheeler Shipbuilding in Brooklyn, New York, for $7,495. [1] ". Pilar" was a nickname for Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel The Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Peterson Builders Incorporated (PBI) was an American ship building company that constructed small to medium, naval and commercial ships and boats. The company mainly operated from a shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Spare parts and logistics were managed from Virginia Beach, Virginia and a ship repair operation in Ingleside, Texas made up ...
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Brunswick Boat Group. Burger Boat Company. Cantieri di Pisa. Carter Marine. Carver Yachts. Centurion Boats. Chaparral Boats. Chris-Craft Corporation. Cimmarron Boats.
Shields going to windward. The Shields is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim, including teak coamings, toe-rails, handrails, the cockpit floor grating and the cockpit seats. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars.
Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accession No. 10.228.1. Identifiers. The Met object ID: 11120. [ edit on Wikidata] Fishing Boats, Key West is a 1903 watercolor and graphite drawing by the American artist Winslow Homer. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Launching of the steamer Daniel J. Morrell, possibly the most famous ship built by this yard. The West Bay City Shipbuilding Company was founded in 1876 at West Bay City, Michigan (now part of Bay City) by Frank W. Wheeler who was a ship captain on the Great Lakes, a shipbuilder and a politician.
Stevens Brothers Boat Builders and Designers company (Stevens Bros.), an American boat designer, began in the back yard of brothers Theodore (Thod, 1882–1933) and Robert (Roy, 1884–1953) Stevens. Their boatbuilding firm in Stockton, California operated from 1902 to 1987. Over the years the company became famous for its elegantly designed ...