Herreshoff #192004ep [Crew Launch for Guinevere]

"Herreshoff is building four small sloops for members of the Beverly-Yacht Club, which will be raced on Buzzards Bay. Thomas W. Slocum is having a sloop of the 'S' class built by Herreshoff, the six-meter boat [Sheila #861s] from the designs of W. Sterling Burgess for Paul Hammond is planked and the launches for Edgar Palmer's new auxiliary schooner Guinivere, building at Lawley's, are completed." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, April 10, 1921, p. 59.)

"There are 4 small boats carried on deck [of Edgar Palmer's Lawley-built schooner Guinevere], built by Herreshoff at Bristol. A life boat, a gig and 2 launches. The crew's launch has a 4-cylinder Speedway and the owner's a GR Sterling.
The illustration shows the owner's launch at full speed and is a regulation Herreshoff power tender for yacht use. [See #192004es Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10838, #192005es Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10839, #192003ep Owner Launch for Guinevere, and #192004ep Crew Launch for Guinevere.]" (Source: Anon. "Guinevere." Rudder, October 1921, p. 6.)

"[Item Description:] Decided to lengthen #725s RESOLUTE's new mast by 3ft, please advise about increase of mainsail hoist, #301p MAGISTRATE engines being inspected right now but may not use her at all if we charter a steamer as tender for RESOLUTE, regarding S boats, [James] Swan informs me that the last one was completed in just over ten days, also, that Vincent is not on that job, but is doing well building 12-footers, your guess about George [Nichols] having spent $10,000 is hardly sufficient, his figures now run pretty close to $25,000, this includes a suit of sails from Ratsey, costing $10,000, Swazey picked up two orders for launches when at Palm Beach [possibly #192003ep and #192004ep, two launches for Edgar M. Palmer's schooner GUINEVERE], and expects also a house boat, all work, to be done next summer, am glad [Sherman] Hoyt seems to think VANITIE is going to clean up RESOLUTE." (Source: Emmons, Robert W. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_26850. Subject Files, Folder 7, formerly 90-95. 1920-03-04.)
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"[Item Description:] Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc. Tentative Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 1920. Tentative Comparative Balance sheet as at December 31, 1920 and 1919. Tentative Condensed Statement of Profit and Loss for Year Ended December 31, 1920. Including detailed profitabilty statements for several contracts including #367p Launch for St. Y. CORSAIR III for J.P. Morgan [loss of $20.71], #372p VASANTA for G. M. Pynchon [loss of $2,362.72], #373p ADOLAR for August Heckscher [loss of $1,277.95], #374p ALERT for Charles A. Stone [loss of $17,652.54], #375p PETUNIA for Henry L. Tiffany [loss of $2,122.67], #376p ESLOMA for William H. Vandervoort [loss of $5,244.00], #827s OHONKARA for Carll Tucker [profit of $3,257.44], 16 S-Boats [#850s ELLEN, #828s GOB, #851s MONSOON, #830s SPINSTER, #831s PAPOOSE, #832s WOODCHUCK, #833s CHEERIO, #834s WIDGEON, #835s KAJEE, #836s DAPHNIA, #837s DOODAH, #838s TEATICKET, #844s VANT, #845s SWALLOW, #846s FANO, #849s CIMA: loss of $7,548.16 (i.e. $471.76 per boat on a sales price of $2,450)], 8 Buzzards Bay Boats 12 1/2s [#829s FALCON, #839s SHELDRAKE, #840s OPITSAH, #841s MISTRAL II, #842s JABBERWOCK, #843s BULLRUSH, #847s PENGUIN, #848s DOODLE BUG: loss of $819.48], 4 small boats for yacht Edgar Palmer [GUINEVERE #192005es, #192003ep, #192004ep, #192004es: loss of $3,839.25]. [These documents found / filed with 'Tentative Financial Statements for the Period from January 1, 1923 to June 27, 1923.']" (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50660. Financial Statement. Subject Files, Folder [no #], formerly 124?. No date (after 1920-12-31).)
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"[Item Description:] Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc. Statement Of Palmer Boats Contracts 10836 [#192003ep] - 7 [#192004ep] -8 [#192004es] as at December 31, 1920, showing considerable losses" (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_59010. Financial Statement. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder [no #], formerly 254?. 1920-12-31.)
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"[Item Description:] am enclosing [HMCo] profit and loss statement for 1920, will analyse Palmer contract [#192003ep, #192004ep, #192004es], 'The showing certainly is discouraging, and the heavy loss on the Stone boat [#374p ALERT] shows what dawdling and not completing a contract on time will do. Also, I am surprised to see what a heavy loss we made on the S boats [#828s, #830s, #831s, #832s, #833s, #834s, #835s, #836s, #837s, #838s, #844s, #845s, #846s, #849s, #850s, #851s]'. [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Emmons, Robert W. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_59030. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder [no #], formerly 254?. 1921-01-14.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #192004ep [Crew Launch for Guinevere] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

"For Guinevere, as per Rudder October 1921, p. 6 (Crew launch). Guinevere was a 195' LOA, 165' LWL three-mast schooner that had been launched on April 21, 1921 at Lawley's Yard in Neponset, Boston for Edgar Palmer. The job number of this crew launch may have been 10837, because 10836 was assigned to Guinevere's owner launch, while 10838 and 10839 were assigned to her non-motorized boats. It is unclear how long it was and from which plan it was built." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 17, 2009.)

"Plan 2-95 titled 'Launch - ic, 26'-2" o.a., 6'-6" [b], 2'-1" [d], for U.S.N.' and made for #330p [Tender taken by U.S. Navy] makes detailed reference to Job No. 10837 which was built from the same plan. The explanations also contain references to job 19836, Guinevere's owner launch, suggesting that 10837 was indeed Guinevere's crew launch. The plan specifies the dimensions for Job 10827 as 25ft 10.5in x 6ft 6in x 2ft 1in." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 29, 2014.)

"This vessel's contract date was estimated from the date #192003ep, the Owner Launch for Guinevere was contracted for. Plan 2-101 from which the owner launch was built was drawn 1920-06-30. The vessel's job number 10836 was assigned ca. 1920-06-30." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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