HMCo #330p [Launch for U.S. Navy]

"March 20, 1918
Trial of #330
25ft open launch
(Sample for Destroyer Tender)
weight 2700 #
4 cyl., 4 cyc., 'Speed Way' motor
rated 15 hp at 650 r.p.m.
rated 19.4 hp at 800 r.p.m.
rated 21.4 hp at 900 r.p.m.
Propeller, 20in x 21in, 4 blades
Wind light S.W., one on board.
Upper 1/2 mile of Poppasquash course [followed by tabulated trial run data with best mean speed being 10.15mph]." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. Handwritten note in Experiments Booklet '1911 Trial Trips and Experiments' under date of March 20, 1918. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"[Item Description:] had successful trial of #306p [SP-1841], #309p [SP-1218 ] came in with damage from grounding and crew managed to inflict further damage, [C.F.] Adams was here last week, none of the other directors has been here except Swasey, the latter is still after the Richards [#329p CAROLA] and Stone [#374p ALERT] contracts, technical specifications for French patrol boats, are setting up the 'sample' 25ft destroyer launches [#330p], also have an order for a 12 1/2 footer [#824s], first 40ft launch [#324p C365] is in the water and has had a successful trial, first boiler was put into #321 [SP-2235] today, #323p [SP-2840] to be set up on Dec 17, machine shop problems, Bob Emmons apparently in Europe, #312p is now in Boston" (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50900. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1917-12-11.)
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"[Item Description:] Navy Dept. ordered ten aeroplane lighters [#191801es, #191802es, #191803es, #191804es, #191805es, #191806es, #191807es, #191808es, #191809es, #191810es], 58ft x 16ft, sort of a small floating dock arranged to carry an aeroplane, $15,000 each, built special construction shed [sketch], want six if possible by March 1, first class job for Brechin, will delay #323p [SP-2840] which is framed and being plated, #306p [SP-1841] and #308p [SP-2232] are finished and waiting for gov't action, Tod has paid for his boat [#308p SP-2232] in full, #321p [SP-2235] is almost done, one 40-fter [apparently #324p C365] has been delivered to Newport but ice is holding the other two [apparently #325p C366 and #326p C367] here and I had them picked up by shears and put on wharf, the last two [apparently #327p C368 and #328p C369] are nearly finished, they have proved expensive boats and we shall no more than make overhead on them, store house is done except cement work in vault, destroyer launch [#330p] is almost finished and is a fine little boat, hope we can build more like her, order for an aeroplane hull or pontoon [#341p NC-4], [Ernest] Alder has gone to Curtiss Works to observe and is now laying the boat down, work has commenced on Richards boat [#329p Carola], the RESOLUTE launch has been sent to Bob's [Emmons] ship the Mt. Vernon as tender" (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50930. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1918-01-08.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Handwritten draft, marked 'rough copy':] Mr. Swan says he has been talking with you over the wire and that Adm[ira]l Taylor will not approve of our plans for a chaser [#191802ep Unbuilt 200ft Submarine Chaser], until we send him the lines and a model is tried.
The lines (which is simply a copy of the lines he has and have already been thoroughly tried out) will be send as soon as traced off on Monday. But with his attitude about this I can see that it is the beginning of trouble we will have all through, and the outerfing[?] of the jealous feeling the Navy Dep. has always had against anything originated here.
We have had one dose of it already this spring with that half dozen Destroyer launches [#330p, #331p, #332p, #333p, #334p] which we built in good faith, and now have five of them on our hands.
If the Navy Department really have faith in our work and will buy this 200ft chaser from your syndicate [next six words crossed out] who will contract for it and who must must have faith us[?] as they would in ordering a Cup Defender, and also the Navy Dept. will aid us in getting material, if necessary --- all right and good!
But if the Navy Dept. is to dictate every step it is no job for the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. to undertake.
We must have a free hand in both design and work, otherwise it would be folly to undertake it.
We have seen nothing of Com. James yet. [Note: See also penciled note by NGH in Offset Booklet HH.4.047 (p. 24) 'June 15, 1998. Lines of Proposed 40ft. Aeroplane Rescue Boat at scale of 1in= 1ft, sent to Mr. Nichols to take to Washington &[?] have a model made from. Frame spaces 12in with one more frame added. Breadths and heights increased 3/2. Estimated displacement 10000'.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter (copy) to (Nichols), George. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_12080. Correspondence, Folder 36, formerly 191. 1918-06-01.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§38: #330p [TENDER TAKEN BY U.S. NAVY] Trial Run best mean speed 10.15mph 'Sample for Destroyer Tender' (1918-03-20)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator) and Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_04280. Folder [no #]. 1911-06 to 1926-05.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #330p [Launch for U.S. Navy] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Tender taken by USN (HMCo-made index card)
• Tender for USN (MIT Museum-made index card)
• 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.

Year: 1917
E/P/S: P
No.: 330
OA: 26' 2"
LW: 24' 1"

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.