ABENAKI, as CGR-3032, insignia of vessel, 1943

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
SYLVIA, RICHARD PRATT
1943
safety film
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Soft negative photographed by Richard Pratt Sylvia in the summer of 1943. View of the insignia of the auxiliary schooner ABENAKI. ABENAKI was a 50'1" auxiliary schooner, sail #54, built in 1930 by Charles A. Morse & Son of Thomaston, Maine from designs by John G. Alden. Other names later were STORMALONG and during World War II, CGR-3032. Image found in negative sleeve stamped, "X046" and marked, "Insignia on Abenaki (CGR-3032) / Summer - 1943". Object from a collection of 445 soft negatives taken by Richard Pratt Sylvia of the World War II American Anti-Submarine Coastal Picket Patrol fleet. CREDIT LINE MANDATORY: Mystic Seaport, Richard Pratt Sylvia Collection.

ABENAKI auxiliary schooner
1997.108.117

Mystic Seaport, Richard Pratt Sylvia Collection