Herreshoff #186602es Falcon

"For the following year [1866], I made models for three thirty-six foot overall sloops, HAIDEE 2nd, ARIAL, and FALCON, the last for one of my father's fishing gangs, and also for a twenty-three foot overall, twenty-one foot waterline catboat for Captain Benjamin Gibbs. Those craft were very satisfactory and with fair speed, but not quite unexcelled. It is funny, but they appeared to improve as they grew older. ... The following summer, 1866, John had an order from Mr. Edward Dexter for a thirty-five foot sloop [VIOLET], and she was built on the same molds as the three sloops just mentioned, except the bilges were made a little fuller, giving more breadth at the waterline and was, without doubt, an improvement. However, on trial, it was found KELPIE 2nd was a little faster than VIOLET to windward, although smaller. To prevent John and Dexter Stone (they were in partnership then) [from] using this model any more, I took an axe and cut it up, then went to work and made a new model for a same sized sloop yacht." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Some of the Boats I Have Sailed In." Written 1934. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 47.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 81:]
Falcon, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1866.
11 tons; 32.5 ft. x 12.9 ft. x 4.2 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, [blank] head [bow].
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 14, 1866. Owners: Charles F. Herreshoff, 1/2, and James B. Herreshoff, 1/2, of Bristol. Master: George A. Faulkner, Portsmouth. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 8, 1867. Owners: same. Master: Thomas W. Lewis, Tiverton. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 5, 1868. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 5, 1869. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 9, 1870. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 3, 1871. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] F[ishing]) Apr. 22, 1872. Owners: same. Master William F. Freeborn, Portsmouth. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] F[ishing]) July 7, 1873. Owners: same. Master: Samuel W. Cottrell, Tiverton.
Surrendered [license] Apr. 17, 1875 at Providence. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] F[ishing]) May 1, 1883 (admeasurement correction - 10.45 tons). Owner: John S. Brown of Warren. Master: John S. Brown. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] F[ishing]) Apr. 30, 1884. Owner: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] F[ishing]) May 2,1885. Owner: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] F[ishing]) May 10, 1886 (change of hailing port - Warren). Owner: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) Oct. 11, 1886. Owner: Samuel Allen of Warren. Master: Samuel Allen. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 2; 1887. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 4, 1888. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 7, 1889. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 20, 1890. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 18i 1891. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 16; 1892. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 27, 1893. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([for] C[oastal] T[rade]) May 28, 1894. Owners: same. Master: same. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence])." (Source: Survey of Federal Archives, Work Projects Administration. Ships Documents of Rhode Island. Bristol. Ship Registers and Enrollments of the Port of Bristol - Warren Rhode Island, 1941, s.v. Falcon.)

"Date this vessel was finished was estimated as May 14, 1866, the date this boat was measured by the U.S. Custom House inspector as per the Survey of Federal Archives, Work Projects Administration. Ships Documents of Rhode Island. Bristol. Ship Registers and Enrollments of the Port of Bristol - Warren Rhode Island, 1941." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 9, 2020.)

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