The man who wrote down American small craft before they disappeared. Without him a great deal of what this atlas describes would survive only as hearsay.
- New Deal
- Headed the New England section of the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey
- War
- US Army Transportation Corps, lieutenant colonel
- Smithsonian
- Curator of the Transportation Division, National Museum of History and Technology; senior historian from 1967; historian emeritus 1971
- Also
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1950 for colonial ship-design research; UN FAO fishing-boat consultant in Turkey, 1956–57
- Archive
- Howard I. Chapelle Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives; his drawings are in the NMAH Ship Plans collection
- 1935The History of American Sailing Ships
- 1949The History of the American Sailing Navy
- 1951American Small Sailing Craft
- 1967The Search for Speed Under Sail
- 1973The American Fishing Schooners 1825–1935
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