Herreshoff #193102es [Dinghy for #663s Istalena]

Particulars

Name: [Dinghy for #663s Istalena]
Type: Rowboat (later Power Dinghy)
Designed by: NGH
Finished: 1931-7 ???
Construction: Wood
LOA: 14' 9" (4.50m)
Beam: 4' 7" (1.40m)
Rig: None (rowboat)
Centerboard: No centerboard
Propulsion: Gasoline, Gray, 5 h.p.
Propeller: Diameter 12", Pitch 14"

See also:

#190611es [Dinghy for #663s Istalena] (1906)

#190612es [Dinghy for #663s Istalena] (1906)

#192206es [Dinghy for #663s Irolita] (1922)

#663s Istalena (1907)

#1313s [Dinghy for #663s Ramallah ex-Istalena] (1935)

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 number: 127
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Left

Vessels from this model:
3 built, modeled by NGH

#190502es [Dinghy for #624s Sonya] (1905)

#191104es [Dinghy for #280p Inca] (1911)

#193102es [Dinghy for #663s Istalena] (1931)

Original text on model:
"14 1/2' boat for No. 624 (YRA) 7 1/2" frame space January 1905" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"14'6" loa tender of 1905 for the cutter Sonya." (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.

Offsets

Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.147.2

Offset booklet contents:
#624 (14 1/2' boat) [#190502es, tender for Sonya].

Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Note: "Reference to offset booklet HH.4.147.2 was added by CvdL because this boat was built from the same construction plan as #190502es that was specifically mentioned in it." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 24, 2021.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 028-031 [076-064] (HH.5.02029)

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Dwg 028-031 [076-064] (HH.5.02029); Construction Dwg > Rowboat 14'-9" Long, 4'-8" Wide (1905-02-04)

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.
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Supplement

Research Note(s)

"New moulds, frame spaces 7 1/2" (6 7/8" frame space for 13'-6" boat) as per notes on plan 28-31.
This rowboat is apparently from model 127 "14 1/2' boat for No. 624 (YRA) 7 1/2" frame space January 1905" (but note discrepancy in length).
Apparently, a dinghy for #663s Istalena (later renamed Ramallah) was also built from plan 28-31 (even though there is no mention of it whatsoever on the plan itself), because notes on drawing 2-114 state: Motor installation Ramallah's [#663s] Dinghy. Date 7-22-31. Job No. 18264. Hull Drawing 28-31[could easily be misread as 28-51]. 5[?] H.P. Gray Marine. Propeller 2 Bl[ade] R.H. [righthand] 'Hyde', 12" x 14". This seems to imply that in 1931 a gasoline engine was installed in a dinghy for #663s Ramallah (then owned by R.H. Ives Goddard) which must have been built sometime between 1931 and 1905. (Of course, it is also possible that the dinghy for Ramallah was one of the other two dinghies which were mentioned on drawing 28-31, i.e. a dinghy for #280p Inca or for #624s Sonya)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"Motor installation Ramallah's [#663s] Dinghy. Date 7-22-31. Job No. 18264. Hull Drawing 28-31[could easily be misread as 28-51]. 5[?] H.P. Gray Marine. Propeller 2 Bl[ade] R.H. [righthand] 'Hyde', 12" x 14" [as per notes on drawing 2-114]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"This vessel's building date was estimated from notes on plan 2-114 which state that a rowboat built from drawing 28-31 was converted to gasoline engine in 1931. The dinghy could thus have been built anytime between 1905 and 1931. Plan 28-31 (formerly 76-64) from which this boat was built was drawn 1905-02-04. #663s Istalena (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1906-10-02." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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