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SWIFT Brigantine Ship Model
Franklin D. Roosevelt1941
U.S. National Archives
United States
Small wooden ship model believed to be of the 1779 American privateer SWIFT. Mounted to its wooden base is a small white plaque inscribed: American / Privateer / Swift 1779 / by G.H.S. Hevenor. Presented to FDR in May 1941 by the maker, Gedeon H.S. Hevenor, a well-known ship model designer of Waltham, Massachusetts. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Museum Collection.
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- Title: SWIFT Brigantine Ship Model
- Creator: Gedeon H.S. Hevenor, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
- Date Created: 1941
- Location Created: Waltham, Massachusetts
- Medium: paint, wood, string, metal
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