HMCo #1094s [Sailing Dinghy for I. B. Merriman]

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: [Sailing Dinghy for I. B. Merriman]
Type: Colonia Sailing Dinghy
Designed by: NGH
Order to build: 1928-4-19
Delivered: 1928-7-6
Construction: Wood
LOA: 14' 2" (4.32m)
Beam: 5' 5" (1.65m)
Rig: Ketch
Displ.: 400 lbs (181 kg)
Centerboard: yes
Ballast: None
Built for: Merriman, Isaac B.
Amount: Cost plus
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Sailing dinghy. Del[ivered] 7/26/28. W[eigh]t 400 lb.

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 #18Model number: 18
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room East Wall

Vessels from this model:
36 built, modeled by NGH
#190201ep [Electric Launch for #213p Quickstep] (1902)
#190602ep [Power Tender for #658s Irolita II] (1906)
#191002ep [Power Tender for #692s Westward] (1910)
#191902ep [Power Lifeboat for #329p Carola V] (1919)
#191903ep [Power Tender for #369p Sunflower] (1919)
#192201ep [Power Lifeboat for #329p Carola V] (1922)
#192202ep [Power Tender for #379p Mariette] (1922)
#190101es [Sailing Dinghy for #213p Quickstep] (1901)
#191101es [10ft Rowboat Job6258] (1912)
#191108es [Dinghy for #709s Joyant] (1911)
#191204es [Dinghy for #711s Ventura] (1912)
#191206es [Dinghy for #712s Spartan] (1912)
#191208es [Dinghy for #713s Iroquois II] (1912)
#191210es [Dinghy for #714s Pleione] (1912)
#191212es [Dinghy for #715s Grayling] (1912)
#191214es [Dinghy for #716s Samuri] (1912)
#191216es [Dinghy for #717s Barbara] (1912)
#191218es [Dinghy for #720s Acushla] (1912)
#191220es [Dinghy for #721s Carolina] (1912)
#191307es [Sailing Cutter for #719s Vagrant II] (1913)
#191503es [Sailing Cutter for #772s Mariette] (1915)
#191705es [Lifeboat for #303p Navette] (1917)
#191902es [Sailing Cutter for #827s Ohonkara] (1919)
#191905es [Lifeboat for #329p Carola V] (1919)
#192005es [Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10839] (1920)
#192102es [Dinghy for #867s Ventura] (1921)
#192104es [Sailing Lifeboat for #267p Enaj III] (1921, Extant)
#192204es [Sailing Cutter for #215p Roamer] (1922)
#192501es [Sailing Cutter for Katoura II] (1925)
#192602es Garryowen [Garry Owen] (1926, Extant)
#217p Maisie (1902)
#218p Carmen (1902)
#221p [Electric Launch for #151p Bellemere ex-Ballymena] (1902)
#568s [Sailing Dinghy for St. Y. Colonia] (1901)
#1093s [Sailing Dinghy for George M. Pynchon] (1928, Extant)
#1094s [Sailing Dinghy for I. B. Merriman] (1928)

Original text on model:
"Sailing dingy for COLONIA July 1901 1/12
Numbers 217 and 218 (1903) frame spaces 8 1/2" instead of 7 1/2" raised 1/2" stem 6" aft flared out to 5' 5" beam Model cut away forward and remeasured before #218 set up Dec. 1901
1923 (01?) sailing cutter for ROAMER 1925 sailing cutter for Rob. Tod 1926 sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"#568 17'3" loa sailing dinghy of 1901 for the cutter Colonia. Also, with modifications, #217 Maisie and #218 Carmen, 20 loa electric launches of 1901, sailing cutter for the steam yacht Roamer, sailing cutter for the schooner Katoura, and sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (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.


Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 028-067 [076-162] (HH.5.02066) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #1094s [Sailing Dinghy for I. B. Merriman] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 081-155 (HH.5.06246): Spars for 14 1/2 ft. Skiff # 908 (1924-12-27)
  2. Dwg 128-104 (HH.5.10232): Sails > Mr. I.B. Merriman # 1094, 14'-2" Sailing Cutter, Yawl and Cat Rig (1928-04-19)
  3. Dwg 028-067 [076-162] (HH.5.02066); Construction Dwg > Sailing Cutter for I.B. Merriman, 14'-2" x 5'-5" (1928-07-12)
  4. Dwg 080-105 (HH.5.06020): Spars for Sailing Cutter for E.B. Merriman (1928-07-13)
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.

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 1931 HMCo-published Owner's List

Type: Sail Dinghy
Length: 14'
Owner: Merriman, I. B.

Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.

From the 1930s L. Francis Herreshoff Index Cards at the Herreshoff Marine Museum
  • Note: The L. Francis Herreshoff index cards comprise a set of some 1200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and / or ownership information. Apparently compiled in the early 1930s, for later HMCo-built boats like the Fishers Island 23s or the Northeast Harbor 30s are not included. Added to in later decades, apparently by L. F. Herreshoff as well as his long-time secretary Muriel Vaughn and others. Also 46 cards of L. F. Herreshoff-designed vessels. The original set of index cards is held by the Herreshoff Marine Museum and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.
From the 1953 HMCo Owner's List by L. Francis Herreshoff

Name: N/A
Type: 14' sailing dinghy
Owner: I. B. Merriman
Row No.: 795

Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.

From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray

Month: Apr
Day: 19
Year: 1928
E/P/S: S
No.: 1094
OA: 14'
Rig: Ketch
CB: y
Ballast: None
Amount: Cost Plus
Notes Constr. Record: Sailing Dinghy, Delivered 7/26/28. Wt. 400 lb.
Last Name: Merriman
First Name: I. B.

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)

"Sailing Cutter for I. B. Merriman. 14'-2" x 5'-5". On moulds of No. 568 (Sailing dinghy for St. Y. Colonia) July, 1901. Frame spaces 6 1/8". Keel - white oak 1 3/8" thick 6" wide at rabbet, 7 3/4" total at [center], rabbeted for 7/8" lap Top 9/16" above rabbet. Stem - white oak and steamed and bent - 1 1/8" sided. Stern Post - Hackmatac Knee 2 1/4" sided. Stern - Teak 5/8". Floor timbers - white oak generally 3/4" x 1 1/2" above keel. Timbers 5/8" moulded 3/4" sided. Planking - Eastern cedar 5/16" thick, lapped, 11 strakes. Sheerstrake - Teak 7/8" thick - moulded 3 3/4" middle 2 3/4" ends. Gunwale clamp - white oak 1 1/4" x 5/8". Wash boards - Teak 4 1/2" to 6" wide 5/12" thick - Brackets 30" apart. Thwart stringers - white oak 1 1/4" x 1/2". Thwarts - teak - 9" x 3/4" double kneed. Stern sheets - Teak 5/8" thick. Weight of hull & equipment 400 lbs. 6 sand bags 152 lbs. Job #16733 June 1929 changed to Cat Rig with forward deck added as in green. Spars [drawing] 80-105 and 81-155 [as per notes on drawing 28-67]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"Plan 28-67 (formerly 76-162) from which this boat was built was drawn 1928-07." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"Built in 78 days (order to build to delivered; equivalent to 5 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Weigt of hull & equipment 400lbs. 6 sandbags 152 lbs." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Note on Construction Plan 028-067 (HH.5. 02066). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

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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