Model No. 312: Unbuilt Fin Keel for NGH, Morwena, Bubble and Meneen

Model by: NGH
Made when: July 1892
Calculated model scale: 1/12
Model length (ca.): 28.0" (71.2cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/12 (ca.): 28' 0" (8.5m)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Fin Keel Sloop (0); One-Rater Fin Keel (2); Two-And-A-Half Rater Fin Keel (1)
Hull Configuration: Fin Keel
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
3 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"1893 #431 MIRWENA 1893 18 WL
#436 BUBBLE 18' wl
#438 MENEEN 24' WL" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"18'3" Mirwena and Bubble, fin-keel sloops of 1892. Also, with change of scale, the 24'4" fin-keeler Meneen, also of 1892." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"March 16th, 1893.
#421 Morwena. One rater for Miss Sutton.
Built on model of #438 [Meneen] (2 1/2 rater) originally intended for self made in July 1892.
Scale at 2 times size of model. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene. [Design booklet entry.] March 16, 1893.)

Comment:
"The sequence of notes in design booklet HH.4.084.2 suggests that #438s Meneen was the first vessel to be built from this model (at a scale of 1/16), followed by #431s Morwena. The reason why #438s Meneen is first listed in the offset booklet is because NGH had originally (in July 1892) intended to use this model for a boat for himself. He later changed his mind and used it for Meneen, Morwena and Bubble." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 5, 2021.)

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.