Herreshoff #191303ep [Power Tender for #716s Samuri]

Particulars

Name: [Power Tender for #716s Samuri]
Type: Columbia Power Tender
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1913-4-11 ?
Job No.: 6886
Construction: Wood
LOA: 13' 1.25" (3.99m)
Beam: 4' 4" (1.32m)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Brownie, 2 h.p.
Propeller: Diameter 13", 8
Built for: Dodge, William Earl

See also:
#191214es [Dinghy for #716s Samuri] (1912)
#191215es [Dinghy for #716s Samuri?] (1912)
#716s Samuri [Samurai] (1913)

Note: Particulars are primarily but not exclusively from the HMCo Construction Record. Supplementary information not from the Construction Record appears elsewhere in this record with a complete citation.


Model

Model #706Model number: 706
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
211 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"Original COLUMBIA lifeboat for 499 14' [long] scale 1/12 Nov. 1899 gig for #503 506, 507 [unreadable] (cut dinghy 520 16x14 7 1/2" frames dinghy for 624 scale 10 3.4 over 16 * 10-8 [unreadable] / 529, 532, 533, 534 16x14 add-on bow changed and shear raised remeasured Dec. 4, 1909. Boats for 692 and later" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"14' lifeboat of 1899 for the cutter Columbia. Also used, with alterations to scale, mold spacing, freeboard, and with sailing rig added, for many other rowboats, sailing dinghies, and tenders. This shape became HMCo's standard for decades to follow." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.


Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 002-079 (HH.5.00081) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
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  1. Dwg 002-079 (HH.5.00081); Construction Dwg > Launch - IC, 13' 1 1/4" O.A., 4'-4" [B], Gasoline (1913-04-11)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.

Documents

Nathanael G. Herreshoff

"May 21, 1913.
13 foot tender for #716 [Samuri]. 2hp Brownie motor, 2 cycle, 2 cylinders.
Propeler, 3 blades, 13in diam[eter], 8in pitch.
Standing pull, 100lbs at 680 r.p.m.
On 1/2mile course [tabulated trial run data with best mean speed being 6.31 miles per hour]." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. Handwritten note in Experiments Booklet '1911 Trial Trips and Experiments' under date of May 21, 1913. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

Archival Documents

"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§17: #191303ep [POWER TENDER FOR #716s SAMURI] Trial Run average speed 6.31mph (1913-05-21)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator) and Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_04280. Folder [no #]. 1911-06 to 1926-05.)



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Supplement

Research Note(s)

"13'- 1 1/2" x 4'-4" Launch for #716. [Job] #6886. Molds 10 3/4 / 12 of 14' figures as changed Dec - 1909. Frame spaces 6 3/4". Timbers white oak. Sheer strake oak. Stern 11/16 Mahogany. Planking 5/16" cedar lap strake. Floor 5/16" thick cedar. Bulkheads 5/32" mahog + 5/32" cedar. Deck 5/32" mahog + 5/32" cedar. Deck beams ash. 2 HP Brownie Motor. Propeller 2 blades, 10" dia. supplied with motor [as per notes on plan 2-79]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"This vessel's contract date was estimated from the approximate date of its job number. The vessel's job number 6886 was assigned ca. 1913-04-11. Plan 2-79 from which this boat was built was drawn 1913-04-11. #716s Samuri [Samurai] (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1912-09-13. This boat's contract or building date is 210 days after #716s Samuri [Samurai] was contracted for." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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