Herreshoff #192401ep [Unbuilt Owner's Launch for H.S. Vanderbilt]

Particulars

Name: [Unbuilt Owner's Launch for H.S. Vanderbilt]
Type: Power Launch
Designed by: NGH
Not built, not assigned, cancelled, etc.: 1924-7
Construction: Wood
LOA: 24' (7.32m)
LWL: 23' 2" (7.06m)
Beam: 7' 3" (2.21m)
Draft: 6' (1.83m)
Built for: Vanderbilt, Harold S.

See also:
#192402ep [Unbuilt Crew's Launch for H.S. Vanderbilt] (1924)
#192301es [Unbuilt Cruising Schooner for H.S. Vanderbilt] (1923)

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 #1510Model number: 1510
Model location: H.M.M. Workshop North Wall Left b

Vessels from this model:
0 built, modeled by NGH
#192401ep [Unbuilt Owner's Launch for H.S. Vanderbilt] (1924)
#192402ep [Unbuilt Crew's Launch for H.S. Vanderbilt] (1924)

Original text on model:
"July 1924
Launch for Com. H.S. Vanderbilt 151' wl aux schooner 1924 design scale 3/4" " (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

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

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List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   Herreshoff #192401ep [Unbuilt Owner's Launch for H.S. Vanderbilt] are listed in bold.
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  1. Dwg 503-068 [157-000] (HH.5.12865): General Arrangement > 3 M. Aux. Schooner Owner's Launch (ca. 1924)
  2. Dwg 503-070 [157-000] (HH.5.12867): Sails > 3 M. Aux. Schooner Owner's and Crew's Launches (ca. 1924)
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

Archival Documents

"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections and displacement curve on verso of sans-serif 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I.' stationery. Titled '1st trial. Launches [#192401ep, a#192402ep] for H. S. Vanderbilts' 150ft Aux. 3 masted [schooner #192301es]. 24ft x 7ft x 3 1/2ft. Scale 3/4. 23ft 2in w.l. July 26, [19]24'. With scantlings and calculations arriving at a total displacement of 55.2cuft = 3640lbs. With note 'see over'. On verso two more sets of penciled pantograph hull sections, one crossed out, and a note 'From finished model [#192301es]. July 28 [1924]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03460. Folder [no #]. 1924-07-26.)


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