Model No. 1511: Launch / Lifeboat

Model by: NGH
Made when: July 1925
Estimated model scale: 1/12
Model length (ca.): 19.9" (50.5cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/12 (ca.): 19' 11" (6.1m)
Power/Sail: P / S
Vessel Type: Launch / Lifeboat
Model location: H.M.M. Workshop North Wall Left b

Original text on model:
"2 Launches ~ 2 Lifeboats for H.S.V's July 5, 1925
132 WL 3 master schooner." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model identification:
"Launch for #192301es [Unbuilt Cruising Schooner], a schooner designed in the 1920s by N. G. Herreshoff for H. S. Vanderbilt which was never built." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. June 12, 2009.)