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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian R Shoemaker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1917, to offset a rise in merchant shipping losses from German U-boats, the U.S. Congress established the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to oversee the rapid construction of wooden ships. Several variations of ship designs were adopted throughout the construction effort, with the two leading designs being the Ferris type and the Hough...