The Old Town canoe with serial number 111724 is a 34 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch decks, birch thwarts, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built in June, 1932. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on June 15th, 1932 to Plainwell, Michigan.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 98496 is a 25 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch arched decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, a keel, and a floor rack. The original exterior paint color was bright red. It shipped on June 22nd, 1929 to Dresden-on-Seneca, in Yates County, New York.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 117522 is a 25 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on May 21st, 1937 to Plymouth, Mass. It was extensively damaged is shippment and was returned on July 20th, 1937 for repairs. A new canoe was shipped to replace it and this one was shipped on June 23rd, 1941 to Ashville, New York. It may have moved to Baldwinsville, New York by September 3rd, 1981 when there was a previous request for a copy of this build record.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 20904 has already been described at
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?9777 with a copy of the build record.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 128875 is an AA (or top) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, mahogany seats, a keel, and a floor rack. It was built between January and August, 1941. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on May 23rd, 1941 to Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 172030 has already been described at
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?4341 with a copy of the build record.
Scans showing all of these build records can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below. These scans and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at
http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
http://www.wcha.org/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and
http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if these descriptions doesn't match your canoes. Are you planning a battle with all of these war canoes? Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
