Ervin Paulin Sr.
Newton, Wisconsin
“This model was scratchbuilt by my grandfather in the late 1950s and early ’60s,” says Andrew Paulin who brought the roughly 1/46 scale metal model of the U.S.C.G.C. Escanaba (WBG-77) to the show. Built in Bay City, Michigan in 1934, the Algonquin-class cutter sailed the Great Lakes until World War II, when it was assigned to convoy duty in the Atlantic. The crew rescued 132 men from a stricken transport in February 1943, but the ship was sunk by a U-boat four months later with the loss of all but two crew.