Herreshoff #191801ep [Unbuilt Oil Barge]
Particulars
Type: Navy Oil Barge
Not built, not assigned, cancelled, etc.: 1918-10
Construction: Steel
LOA: 154' (46.94m)
Beam: 27' (8.23m)
Displ.: 1,078.6 short tons (978.5 metric tons)
Built for: U.S. Navy
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: 1500Model location: H.M.M. Workshop North Wall Left b
Vessels from this model:
0 built
Original text on model:
"The two ends of an Oil Barge
Intended to have a straight body between of 94' 6"
Total length 154 ft. Scale 3/8" Oct. 1917 [sic, i.e. Oct. 1918?] Not built. [Note LOA, Beam and Draft are written on the model]." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Related model(s):
Model 1501 by NGH (1917?); power
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.4.205
Offset booklet contents:
USN oil barges 1918, 1919 [not HMC numbers].
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"[1918-11-16] Sat 16: Are notified [that] Sec'y of Navy will not approve of giving us contract for oil barges [#191801ep]. So we are without steel work for year." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1918. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)
"U.S.N. Oil Barges.
No. [blank].
Frame spaces 21" beginning at outside of stem ext[?] sheer height. Forward of # 7 frame 'cant frames are to be used and their coordinates are given after transom.
Offsets are to outside of plating 3/8" thick.
Plating to be laid up to frame with taper liners under laps, taking 2 rivets.
Keel plates 1/2" x 22" with 12 1/2" flat at middle. Deduct 3/8" at bottom of keel for frame.
Pitch of deck 1/2" oer foot.
Transom flat, 3/8" thick." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G.? [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.205.] Undated, ca. fall of 1918. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, having completed 10 of the 12 steel pontoons for hydroplanes [#191801es - #191810es], with the remaining two well under way, has now received a naval order for [oil tankers? About 7 unreadable words] about 100 [or 150?] feet long and propelled of steam power. They will be built in the main shops and will occupy probably a year and a half in their construction. [The oil tankers are apparently a reference to #191801ep. This order was cancelled in November 1918 as per NGH's diary.]" (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, October 15, 1918, p. 2.)
Archival Documents
"N/A"
"[Item Description:] Penciled general arrangement plan with calculations, construction detail, half-breadth plan, inboard profile and outboard profile titled 'Oil Barge [#191801ep]. Sept 19 [19]18'. With notes incl. 'Total oil … 760 tons'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled General Arrangement Plan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE02_05520. Folder [no #]. 1918-09-19.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sketch inboard profile, half-section and plan view of what appears to #191801ep Unbuilt Oil Barge. With calculations about the weight of oil concluding at '96 tons oil' and a weight study listing building materials. On verso more calculations, some titled 'S class'. Untitled, undated (order for these barges was obtained in October 1918)." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_03590. Penciled Sketch. Folder [no #]. No date (1918-10 ?).)
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Supplement
Research Note(s)
"The offset booklet HH.4.205 specifies a frame spacing of 21 inches for a total of 88 stations, suggesting an overall length of 154ft. Model 1500 is for a 154ft oil tanker and model 1501 apparently, too. This oil barge was never built as per NGH diary entry dated November 16, 1918." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 30, 2014.)
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