Herreshoff #190901ep Cormorant Rose [Power Tender for #267p Enaj III]
Particulars
Type: Columbia Power Tender
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1909-2-23 ?
Job No.: 5054
Construction: Wood
LOA: 17' 3" (5.26m)
Beam: 4' 8" (1.42m)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Buffalo, 2 h.p.
Propeller: Diameter 12"
Built for: Bennett, Thomas G.
Current owner: Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT (last reported 2024 at age 115)
See also:
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: 706Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
Original text on model:
"Original COLUMBIA lifeboat for 499 14' [long] scale 1/12 Nov. 1899 gig for #503 506, 507 [unreadable] (cut dinghy 520 16x14 7 1/2" frames dinghy for 624 scale 10 3.4 over 16 * 10-8 [unreadable] / 529, 532, 533, 534 16x14 add-on bow changed and shear raised remeasured Dec. 4, 1909. Boats for 692 and later" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"14' lifeboat of 1899 for the cutter Columbia. Also used, with alterations to scale, mold spacing, freeboard, and with sailing rig added, for many other rowboats, sailing dinghies, and tenders. This shape became HMCo's standard for decades to follow." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Model Comment:
"Reference to model 706 was added by CvdL as per note on plan 2-54 saying the boat was built on moulds of Columbia's Life-Boat." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 23, 2009.)
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
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Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
Herreshoff #190901ep Cormorant Rose [Power Tender for #267p Enaj III] are listed in bold.
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Dwg 081-013 (HH.5.06101): Spars for 18' and 17'-3" Electric Launches, for 14' Dinghie [sic] (1902-06-09)
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Dwg 068-070 (HH.5.04876): Steering Gear and Gasoline Tank for 17' Launch (2-43) (1906-03-31)
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Dwg 071-050 (HH.5.05152): Color Pole & Deck Fittings (1906-12-08)
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Dwg 002-054 (HH.5.00056); Construction Dwg > Launch - IC, 17'-3" O.A., Gasoline (1909-02-23)
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Documents
Maynard Bray
"Cormorant Rose
HERRESHOFF MANUFACTURING COMPANY
MOTOR LAUNCH 17'8"x 5' 0" 1909
For their motor launches, the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company relied on engines built by others. In this launch, a tender for the 1909 steam yacht Enaj, plans called for a 2-hp Buffalo. Replacement of that engine with a snappier one meant that the boat went faster, and the occupants got wet, so the bow's foredeck was raised to help keep passengers dry. The work was done skillfully (but not by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company) and it takes close observation to see that it was an addition. The new raised foredeck was made from first-class materials that matched the original boat; the new cockpit coaming came out of a mahogany plank that had to be two feet wide. The current engine, a Hallett Aero-Motor Company 4-cylinder model, was probably installed in the late 1920s, when that company was briefly in business. Mystic Seaport also owns the other tender (1974.995 [#192104es Dixie]) that came from Enaj, both rescued from the yacht after she (as Comfort) was wrecked in the 1938 hurricane. Cormorant Rose served her owner as a tender to get out to his ketch Compass Rose from his summer home on Cormorant Point, Block Island. She is not as pretty now as she was when she was built, but her passengers around Block Island would have been dry and happy.
STATUS: Good condition, structurally and cosmetically.
DONOR: Commander Joseph Wadsworth
ACCESSION NO. 1975.466." (Source: Bray, Maynard with Benjamin A. G. Fuller and Peter T. Vermilya. Mystic Seaport Watercraft. Mystic, Connecticut, 2001, p. 284-285.)
Images
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Bray, Maynard. "Cormorant Rose [#190901ep.]" Photograph, 1975.
Further Image Information
Created by: Bray, Maynard.
Image Caption: "Cormorant Rose in storage at Mystic Seaport. [Note the raised foredeck, added later and not by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.]"
Image Date: 1975
Published in: Bray, Maynard with Benjamin A. G. Fuller and Peter T. Vermilya. Mystic Seaport Watercraft. Mystic, Connecticut, 2001, p. 285.
Collection: Mystic Seaport Museum, acc. no. 1975.466A.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: Mystic Seaport Museum.
Supplement
Research Note(s)
"Cormorant Rose is probably the power tender mentioned on plan 2-54 Gasoline Launch 17'-3" x 4'-8", but note the slightly different dimensions from those reported by Mystic (17'-8" x 5'-0"). (Souce: van der Linde, Claas. May 16, 2009.)
"Gasoline launch 17'-3" over all & 4'-8" beam. 1 [Boat built] for #267 [Enaj] job #5054. Boat built on moulds of Columbia's Life-Boat. Sheer raised 6 1/4" forward, 4" midship and 4 1/2" aft (made 1" higher than drawn for #5054. Stern carried aft 4 1/8". Frame space 8 3/4". Extreme length 17'-3". Planking lap strake of Cedar 5/16" thick. 2h.p. Buffalo motor. Gasoline tank 6 gallon. 12" Reversable Propeller furnished with motor [as per notes on drawing 2-54]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
"Note, that Cormorant Rose was able to carry a sailing rig as per notes on spar plan HH.5.06101 (081-013): Spars for 17ft-3in & 18ft Electric & 14ft Dinghie dated 1902-06-09." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 20, 2019.)
"This vessel's contract date was estimated from the approximate date of its job number. The vessel's job number 5054 was assigned ca. 1909-02-23. Plan 2-54 from which this boat was built was drawn 1909-02-23. #267p Enaj III (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1908-10-26. This boat's contract or building date is 120 days after #267p Enaj III was contracted for." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
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