Background

Chapelle was born on February 1, 1901.

Career

In addition, he authored many books and articles on maritime history and marine architecture. From 1919, he worked as a marine apprentice and designer for a number of shipbuilders. After 1936, he went into business for himself, and later served as head of the New England section of the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey, a New Deal project designed to research American naval history and staffed by unemployed marine architects.

During World World War II, Chapelle served in the United States Army Transportation Corps ship and boatbuilding program

In 1950, he ventured to England where he researched colonial ship design on a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1956/57, he served the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization as a consultant on fishing boat construction to the government of Turkey.

Upon returning to America, he was appointed Division of Transportation curator of the National Museum of History and Technology. Ten years later, in 1967, he stepped down as curator to assume the role of Senior Historian.

He retired in 1971, accepting the title of Historian Emeritus.

Chapelle died in Lewes, Delaware, on June 30, 1975.

Works

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  • American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction

    ( From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boa...)

  • The History of The American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Developement

    (First edition, 1st printing bound in khaki cloth with blu...)

  • The History Of American Sailing Ships

    (This is an older book that is quite informative in the as...)

  • The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development

    (Howard Chapelle was one of America's most distinguished n...)

  • The History Of American Sailing Ships by Howard I. Chapelle (1982-01-01)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • American Sailing Craft

    (tight unmarked pages)

  • Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development.
  • Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development by Howard Irving Chapelle (1930-12-23)
  • The Baltimore Clipper Its Origin and Development
  • The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development by Howard I. Chapelle (1998-08-20)
  • American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction by Howard I. Chapelle (1951-12-17)
  • American small sailing craft, their design, development, and construction
  • Howard I. Chapelle: American Small Sailing Craft : Their Design, Development and Construction (Hardcover); 1951 Edition
  • American Sailing Craft by Howard I. Chapelle (1975-01-01)
  • American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction
  • The Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development (Dover Maritime) by Chapelle, Howard Irving(March 14, 2012) Paperback
  • The Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development (Dover Maritime) by Howard Irving Chapelle (2012-03-14)