HMCo #69p [Machinery and drawings of hull only]
Particulars
Name: [Machinery and drawings of hull only]Type: Steam Engine Only Sidewheel
Designed by: NGH
Finished: 1880-7
Construction: N/A
LOA: 50' (15.24m)
Beam: 10' 1" (3.07m)
Draft: 3' (0.91m)
Propulsion: Steam, Herreshoff, Simple exp., 1 cyl. (6" bore x 24" stroke); High press. con.
Boiler: Coil; 42" x 39"
Propeller: Sidewheels
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Mach'y and drawings of hull only [sidewheel]
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: 1441Model location: H.M.M. Workshop North Wall Left b
Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"No. 69 [Written on the deck]" (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.
Documents
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"YACHTING NEWS.
THE HOME OF HIGH SPEEDS. --- The summer months have opened busily at the constructing and machine shops of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol. R. I. ... In the machine shop an engine and coil boiler of 25-horse power are in course of construction for a light-draught, side-wheel steamer for river navigation. ..." (Source: Anon. (C. P. Kunhardt?) "Yachting News." Forest and Stream, June 24, 1880, p. 419.)
Archival Documents
"N/A"
Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #69p [Machinery and drawings of hull only] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.
Supplement
From the 1920 and earlier HMCo Index Cards at the MIT Museum
- Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Year: 1880
E/P/S: P
No.: 069
OA: 50'
Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.
Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.
Research Note(s)
"Sidewheel steamer as per construction record." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 2, 2008.)
Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.
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