Herreshoff #187008es Viking
Particulars
Type: Sloop
Designed by: CFH or JBH
Launch: 1870
Construction: Wood
LOA: 35' 7" (10.85m)
LWL: 32' 9" (9.98m)
Beam: 11' 2" (3.40m)
Draft: 3' 9" (1.14m)
Rig: Sloop
Displ.: 19,660 lbs (8,918 kg)
Centerboard: yes
Built for: Wetmore, L.
Last reported: 1902 (aged 32)
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: 812Model location: H.M.M. Workshop East Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by CFH or JBH
Original text on model:
"VIKING 1870" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
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.
Documents
Archival Documents
"[Item Description:] Handwritten (in ink and pencil) table providing what amounts to be the earliest Herreshoff construction record with detailed dimensional data (Name, Owner, Length on deck, Length on water, Breadth extreme, Depth, Deadrise per foot, Width of stern, Sheer, Freeboard at bow, stern and lowest place, Centreboard length, Centreboard from woodends, Centre of mast from woodends, Bowsprit out board, Mainsail foot, hoist, head, leech, and area, Foresail foot, hoist, head, leech, and area, Jib foot, hoist, leech, and area, Gafftopsail foot, luff, leech, and area, Fore-gafftopsail foot, luff, leech, and area, Jibtopsail foot, hoist, leech, and area and Notes ) for Julia [#185602es], Sprite [#186001es], Kelpie 1st [#186301es], Magic [#186404es], Toad [#186411es], Prudence [#186406es], Patience [#186405es], Hope [#186402es], Faith [#186401es], Qui Vive [#186407es], Kelpie 2nd [#186403es], Teazer [#186410es], Secret [#186408es], Fish Boats [#186505es, #186506es, #186507es, #186508es, #186509es, #186510es, #186511es, #186512es], Fish Boats [#186513es, #186514es, #186515es, #186516es, #186517es, #186518es], Fanchon [#186501es], Angie [#186503es], Haidee [#186604es], Ariel [#186601es], Psyche [#186605es], Fannie 1st [#186603es], Violet [#186606es], Fish Boats [#186607es, #186608es], Fish Boats [#186609es, #186610es, #186611es, #186612es, #186613es, #186614es], Lively Whale [later Daisy ???] [#186707es ???], Fannie 2nd [#186702es], Hartford [later Polly ???] [#186703es ???], Sadie [#186704es], Clytie [#186701es], Waterfall [N/A], Bristol [#186801es], Ione [#187003es], Poppasquash [#186502es], Etta [N/A], Oysterboats [#186710es, #186711es], Spring Green [#186709es], Pellican [#186708es], Henrietta [N/A], Meteor [N/A], Fatter[?] [N/A], Annie Moies [#1p], Charlotte [#186803es], Annie [#186905es], Hildegard [#186808es], Thetis [#186705es], Clio [#187101es], Fleetwing [N/A], White Straw[?] [N/A], [Mignone] [#186904es], Fish Boats [square stern, 1868] [N/A], Sadie [#N/A (dupl. listing)], Fannie [N/A], Bunsby [#186802es], Orion [#186903es], Breeze [N/A], Nimbus [#186805es], Alice [crossed out, this MIGHT be Bessie] [#187001es], Viking [#187008es], [Ianthe] [#187002es], [Surf] [#187007es], [Georgie Miller] [#187011es], and [Pink] [#187010es]. Undated, the latest vessel on the list was built in 1870." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator) or other Herreshoff family members (?) (creator). Construction Record. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01410. Folder [no #]. No date (ca 1870).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #187008es Viking even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.
Registers
1872 Fox Yachting Annual (#374)
Name: Viking
Owner: L. Wetmore; Club(s): 5 [Atlantic YC]; Port: Brooklyn
Type & Rig C. B. Sl.
Tons Old Measure 22; LWL 32-9; Extr. Beam 13-4; Draught 3-10
Sailmaker J[ohn] M. Sawyer [New York]
Builder Herreshoff
Note: No. of Men: 5; Captain: Owner
1885 Olsen's American Yacht List (#1607)
Name: Viking
Owner: F. C. Swan; Club(s): 5 [Atlantic], 33 [New Haven]; Port: New-York
Type & Rig CB Sloop
Tons New Measure 9.83; LOA 35.7; LWL 32.7; Extr. Beam 11.2; Depth 6.0; Draught 3.9
Sailmaker Wilson & Griffiths; Sails made in [18]84
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1871
Note: Part[ly] Reb[uil]t. at New-London, [18]84
1889 Who Won (#2071)
Name: Viking
Owner: Thos. B. Graham; Port: New York
Type & Rig CB Sloop
LOA 35.9; LWL 33.9; Extr. Beam 11.2; Depth 5; Draught 3.9
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer J. B. Herreshoff; Built when 1870
Note: Part rebuilt 1884
1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List (#2938)
Name: Viking
Owner: F. R. Adams; Club(s): 73 [Harlem]; Port: New York
Official no. 25913; Type & Rig CB Sloop
Tons Gross 9.83; LOA 35.9; LWL 32.9; Extr. Beam 11.2; Depth 4.6; Draught 3.9
Builder C. F. Herreshoff; Designer J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1870
Note: Part[ly] rebuilt [18]84
1892 Lloyd's Register of Yachts U.K.
Name: Viking
Owner: F. R. Adams; Port: New York
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig Sloop
LOA 35.7; LWL 33.7; Extr. Beam 11.2; Draught 3.9
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.
1896 Manning's American Yacht List (#1966)
Name: Viking
Owner: F. R. Adams; Club(s): 121 [Indian Harbor]; Port: New York
Type & Rig CB. Sloop
Tons Gross 9.83; LOA 35.9; LWL 32.9; Extr. Beam 11.2; Depth 4.6; Draught 3.9
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer C. F. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1870
Note: Partly reb[uilt] by Solheim & Abramson, 1894. Races 1895: Club 121 July 27 (0).
1896 Who Won (#4666)
Name: Viking
Owner: F. R. Adams; Club(s): 49 1/2; Port: New York
Type & Rig CB Sloop
LOA 35.10; LWL 32; Extr. Beam 11.10; Depth 4.8; Draught 4
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer J. B. Herreshoff; Built when 1870
Note: Part. reb. 1884
1902 Manning's American Yacht List (#1754)
Name: Viking
Owner: Harrie A. Quackenbush; Club(s): 35 [Knickerbocker]; Port: New York
Official no. 25913; Type & Rig CB. Sloop
Tons Gross 9.83; LOA 35.9; LWL 32.9; Extr. Beam 12.0; Depth 4.6; Draught 3.9
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer C. F. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1870
Note: Partly reb[uilt] by Solheim & Abramson, 1894
Source: Various Yacht Lists and Registers. For complete biographical information see the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné under Data Sources. Note that this section shows only snapshots in time and should not be considered a provenance, although it can help creating one.
Supplement
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: Viking
Type: 33' 9" sloop
Owner: F. C. Swan [sic, Swan was owner in 1884 as per American Yacht List 1885]
Year: 1870
Row No.: 722
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.
Research Note(s)
"In the absence of better available data displacement was estimated by using the figure for New Measurement Tons (9.83) from the 1885 Olsen's American Yacht List (Old Measurement Tons were reported as 22 by the 1872 Fox Yachting Annual) and converting to lbs by dividing through 2000 (short tons). Note that this figure can only be a rough estimate because register tons as reported in Yacht Registers correlate only loosely with actual displacement figures." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 17, 2015.)
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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