HMCo #405p [Surfboat]

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: [Surfboat]
Type: Power Surfboat
Designed by: NGH (mod. by Gielow)
Contract: 1936-5
Finished: 1936-8 ?
LWL: 24' 6" (7.47m)
Beam: 6' 10" (2.08m)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Scripps V8, 95 h.p.
Propeller: Diameter 18", Pitch 20", L.H.
Built for: Van Clief, R. A. [Ray Alan Van Cleef?]
Amount: $975.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: R. A. Van Clief

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 #211Model number: 211
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Center

Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by NGH, or NGH (mod. by Gielow)
#191501es [Whale Boat for #722s Katoura] (1915)
#405p [Surfboat] (1936)

Original text on model:
"KATOURA's whale boat April 1915 Scale 12 16/11
A second yacht's boat was built from this model but shortened to 24' in 1936
Very foolishly to be powered with a large engine, decked over (except cockpits)
and a complicated rig. N.G.H." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"Whaleboat (lifeboat) of 1915 for the schooner Katoura. Also 24' motorsailer of 1936." (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.4.065.1; HH.4.065.2

Offset booklet contents:
# 405 [#405p], whaleboat for #722 ([internal] job no. 8075);
# 405 [#405p], whaleboat for #722 ([internal] job no. 8075).


Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 002-118 (HH.5.00123) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #405p [Surfboat] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 010-027 (HH.5.00869): [Prop Shaft Coupling and Details] (1885-09-15)
  2. Dwg 062-074 (HH.5.04439): Rudder and Rudder Yoke for 284, 285, 287 (1912-01-04)
  3. Dwg 002-000 (HH.5.00124): General Arrangement > Launch-Ic, 24'-6"O.A., 6' Beam, Surf Boat, Gnl Arrgt (1935-08-23)
  4. Dwg 002-000 (HH.5.00126): Shaft, Detail - Propeller (ca. 1936)
  5. Dwg 002-000 (HH.5.00127): Keel, Detail - Taper, Hull Detail (ca. 1936)
  6. Dwg 002-118 (HH.5.00123): Sails > Sail Plan, Sail (ca. 1936)
  7. Dwg 155-000 (HH.5.12774): General Arrangement > [Arrangement of Small Boat] [Aux. Whale Boat?] (ca. 1936)
  8. Dwg 002-000 (HH.5.00128): Tank - Fuel, # 16 B.W.G. Copper, Machnry Dtl (1936-04-29)
  9. Dwg 002-000 (HH.5.00125): Sails > Sail Plan, Surf Boat (1936-05 ?)
  10. Dwg 002-118 (HH.5.00122): Construction Dwg > 24'-6" O.A., 6'-10" Beam, Surf Boat, Construction (1936-05)
  11. Dwg 011-081 (HH.5.01008): Stuffing Boxes Assembly (1936-05-15)
  12. Dwg 011-080 (HH.5.01007): Stuffing Boxes, Skeg and Assembly (1936-05-21 ?)
  13. Dwg 010-027 (HH.5.00870): Stuffing Box (1936-05-22)
  14. Dwg 002-000 (HH.5.00130): Cabin Work, Detail - Seat, Cushions and Backs (1936-05-23)
  15. Dwg 062-110 (HH.5.04475): Rudder Yoke & Sheaves (1936-06-18)
  16. Dwg 002-000 [002-118] (HH.5.00129): Rigging, Detail - Chain Plate, Rig Dtl (1936-06-23)
  17. Dwg 080-150 (HH.5.06065): Spar Details, Power Surf Boat (1936-06-26)
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.
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.

Documents

Archival Documents

"[Item Description:] Handwritten notebook titled on outer cover 'Droughting Room. Blue Prints Record' providing a list of drawings with information in columns titled 'Issued To', 'For Job', 'Date', 'Date Returned', '[Date] Destroyed', and 'Remarks'. Vessels mentioned are #1266s BELISARIUS, #1267 FROSTFISH, #395p Owner Launch for St.Y. VIKING, #1265s NITRAMON, #1204s SILVERHEELS, #1233s RAINBOW, #1276s PRIM, #1275s MITENA, #907s PLEASURE, #931s NASSAU, #711s VENTURA, #900s IRIS, #982s WATER LILY, #891s WILDFIRE, #1147s WEETAMOE, #954s MARY ROSE, #880s JOSEPHINE, #788s MANATEE, #1146s ENTERPRISE, #1212s TRONDA, #1282s 12 1/2 for H. V. Reed, #1302s Amphicraft for N. F. Ayer, #1304s Amphicraft for Charles A. Welch, #1286s 12 1/2 for Mr. Maitland Alexander, #1311s Amphicraft for Dr. Seth M. Milliken, #1313s Dinghy for #663s RAMALLAH ex-ISTALENA, #1314s HMCo Yard Skiff, #408s PELICAN, #1315s BRENDA, #396p Power Tender for FONTINALIS, #397p Power Tender for FONTINALIS, #329p CAROLA, #1318s Sailing Dinghy for Henry S. Morgan; #1316s NOVA, #1319s Tech Dinghy, #1317s MANDOO II, #405p Surfboat, #1379s Fish Class for H. M. Lautmann (MERRY HELL), #1385s TINKER TOO, and #1384s AVANTI. 23 pages were used. Undated, the dates range from October 1934 to September 1936." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Notebook. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.106. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Blue Print Record Book. No date (1934-10 to 1936-09).)


Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #405p [Surfboat] 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: 1936c [sic, i.e. 1938c ?]
E/P/S: P
No.: 405p
Name: Surf Boat
LW: 24'

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)

"HMCo's 'Blue Print Record' (MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.106. Box HAFH.6.3B, p. 20) suggests that this boat was built by Charlie Sylvester between May 1936 and August 11, 1936 (when the last blueprint was returned to the office and destroyed)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 3, 2018.)

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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