Herreshoff #187202es Latona
Particulars
Later Name(s): Casella
Type: Schooner
Designed by: NGH
Launch: 1872-2-15
Construction: Wood
LOA: 61' (18.59m)
LWL: 55' 6" (16.92m)
Beam: 18' 0" (5.49m)
Draft: 7' 0" (2.13m)
Rig: Schooner
Displ.: 32.0 short tons (29.0 metric tons)
Keel: yes
Built for: Pickman, William D.
Last reported: 1906 (aged 34)
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.
Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to Mr. Foster
In reply to your valued letter of 18th instant, I am afraid I cannot give you much that will be of interest to the members of the Eastern Yacht Club. Being behind the Cape I have had little to do with the E. Y. C., ...
Some of the old timers of my design which were probably sailed in the E. Y. C. races may be mentioned. Fanchon, designed and built in 1865, owned by Edward Burgess from about 1869 for several years. Violet, 1866, Eben Denton. Clytie, 1867. Sadie, 1867 (first a schooner but changed to a sloop in 1868, and owned by Franklin Burgess 1870-71. Her model was made by John B. Herreshoff). Ianthe, schooner, 49' w. l., 1870, W. D. Pickman owner. (Model by John B. Herreshoff.) Latona, schooner, 55 1/2' w. l., 1871, W. D. Pickman owner. Faustine, schooner, 74' w. l., 1873, built for George Peabody Russell, and taken to England in 1874.
... Sincerely yours,
Nathanael G. Herreshoff" (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene. Letter to Charles H. W. Foster, ca. 1931. Quoted in Foster, Charles H. W. The Eastern Yacht Club Ditty Box, 1870-1900. Norwood, Mass., 1932, p. 39-41.)
"... the following year [1871], Mr. Pickman ordered from John a larger schooner LATONA, which I modeled and made [a] complete sail plan [for] and John took back IANTHE in part payment. ..." (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. 49.)
L. Francis Herreshoff
"In 1871 Captain Nat modeled and designed the keel schooner 'Latona' which was built by J. B." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Wizard of Bristol. The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with An Account of Some of the Yachts he Designed. New York, 1953, p. 85.)
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"A large schooner yacht was launched from the yard of Mr. John B. Herreshoff Thursday [February 15, 1872] afternoon. The yacht was built for Mr. George Pickman, of Beverly, Mass., and is intended for the Eastern Yacht Club. She measured sixty-one feet in length by eighteen feet breadth of beam. ..." (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, February 17, 1872, p. 2.)
"The New York Herald in a lengthy and interesting account of yachting in the East says ... The keel of the Latona was laid on the 10th of January and she is now completed. ..." (Source: Anon. "Eastern Yachting. Herreshoff's Yard at Bristol." Providence Evening Press, May 27, 1872, p. 3.)
"The Latona is a keel schooner yacht that this builder has now completed for W. D. Pickman, Esq., of the Eastern Yacht Club. This boat has an oak frame and is planked with yellow pine, and Ohio oak. She has a trunk cabin and a cockpit eighteen inches deep. The cabin is panelled in pine and has two staterooms and the main cabin four berths. There is a comfortable bathroom and a roomy forecastle. She is built somewhat on a new style, hollowed out and yery sharp forward, and has a hollow floor in the midship section. Her stem is purely American. Her dimensions are: --- length on water line 55ft., length of beam 18ft., depth of hold 6ft. 9in., draught 7ft., length of mainmast 57ft;, length of foremast 55ft., length of topmasts 22ft., length of main-boom 42ft., length of fore-boom 18ft., length of main-gaff 22ft., length of fore-gaff 18ft., length of bowsprit outboard 27ft." (Source: Anon. "Intercommunication." Hunt's Yachting Magazine, September 1872, p. 499.)
"The keel-schooner Latona, D. L. Pickman, has been sold to C. W. Amory, of Boston. She is 61 feet water-line, and built in 1872 by Herreshoff." (Source: Anon. "Our Monthly Record." Outing, August 1885, p. 632.)
Further Reading
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Taglang, Jacques. Mariette and the Herreshoff Schooners. Two vols. Eynesse, 2010.
Vessel biographies, large-scale sail and lines plans reproduced from original HMCo plans. The definitive book on Herreshoff schooners.
Images
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Further Image Information
Created by: Anon.
Image Caption: [Latona.]
Published in: Foster, Charles H. W. The Eastern Yacht Club Ditty Box, 1870-1900. Norwood, Mass., 1932, p 84.
Image is copyrighted: No known restrictions
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Further Image Information
Created by: Stebbins, Nathaniel L.
Image Caption: "2621 Casella [Ca. July/August 1889 as per dates of surrounding negative numbers".
Negative Number: 2621
Image Date: 1889-7 ?
Collection: Historic New England (SPNEA) Collection, GUSN 277566.
Image is copyrighted: No known copyright restrictions
Registers
1872 Fox Yachting Annual (#207)
Name: Latona
Owner: W. D. Pickman; Club(s): 2 [Eastern YC]; Port: Beverly
Type & Rig K'l Sch.
Tons Old Measure 55; LWL 55-5; Extr. Beam 18; Draught 7
Builder Herreshoff; Built when 1872
Note: No. of Men: 5; Captain: Owner
1874 Olsen's American Yacht List (#212)
Name: Latona
Owner: W. D. Pickman; Club(s): 2 [Eastern YC]; Port: Beverly
Type & Rig K. Schooner
Tons Old Measure 59; LOA 61; LWL 55-5; Extr. Beam 18; Depth 7; Draught 7
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1872
Note: Number of Men: Five
1881 Olsen's American Yacht List (#294)
Name: Latona
Owner: D. L. Pickman; Club(s): 2 [Eastern], 11 [Beverly]; Port: Beverly
Official no. 15823; Type & Rig K[eel] Schr. [Schooner]
Tons Old Measure 33.63; LOA 70; LWL 61; Extr. Beam 20.2; Depth 7.
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol; Built when 1872
1885 Olsen's American Yacht List (#829)
Name: Latona
Owner: J. M. Glidden; Club(s): 2 [Eastern]; Port: Boston
Official no. 15823; Type & Rig K[eel] Schr. [Schooner]
Tons Old Measure 33.63; LOA 70.0; LWL 61.0; Extr. Beam 20.2; Depth 7.0; Draught 7.0
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List (#422)
Name; Former Name(s): Casella; Latona
Owner: G. H. Brooks; Club(s): 62 [Hull]; Port: Boston, Mass.
Official no. 15823; Type & Rig K[eel] Schr. [Schooner]
Tons Gross 33.63; Tons Net 31.95; LOA 71.0; LWL 61.2; Extr. Beam 18.0; Depth 6.9; Draught 7.0
Sailmaker H. J. Frisbee
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
1896 Manning's American Yacht List (#650)
Name; Former Name(s): Casella; Latona
Owner: Geo. H. Brooks; Club(s): 62 [Hull]; Port: Boston, Mass.
Official no. 15823; Type & Rig K[eel] Schr. [Schooner]
Tons Gross 33.63; Tons Net 31.95; LOA 71.0; LWL 61.2; Extr. Beam 18.0; Depth 6.9; Draught 7.0
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
1902 Manning's American Yacht List (#653)
Name; Former Name(s): Casella; Latona
Owner: Geo O. Carpenter. Fred'k B. Carpenter; Club(s): 1 [New York], 20 [Eastern], 62 [Hull Mass.]; Port: Boston
Official no. 15823; Type & Rig K[eel] Schooner
Tons Gross 33.63; Tons Net 31.95; LOA 71.0; LWL 61.2; Extr. Beam 17.8; Depth 6.9; Draught 7.0
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
1903 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#274)
Name; Former Name(s): Casella; Latona
Owner: F. B. & G. O. Carpenter; Port: Boston, Mass.
Official no. 15823; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel] Schooner
Tons Gross 33.63; Tons Net 31.95; Reg. Length 60.7; LOA 71.0; LWL 61.2; Extr. Beam 17.8; Depth 6.9; Draught 6.9
Sailmaker Poole; Sails made in [19]01
Builder Herreshoff M. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
1905 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#292)
Name; Former Name(s): Casella; Latona
Owner: F. B. Carpenter. G. O. Carpenter; Port: Boston, Mass.
Official no. 15823; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel] Schooner
Tons Gross 33.63; Tons Net 31.95; Reg. Length 60.7; LOA 71.0; LWL 61.2; Extr. Beam 17.8; Depth 6.9; Draught 6.9
Sailmaker Poole; Sails made in [19]01
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
1906 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#481)
Name; Former Name(s): Casella; Latona
Owner: F. B. Carpenter. G. O. Carpenter; Port: Boston, Mass.
Official no. 15823; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel] Schooner
Tons Gross 33; Tons Net 32; LOA 71-0; LWL 61-3; Extr. Beam 17-10; Depth 6-11; Draught 6-11
Sailmaker Poole; Sails made in [19]01
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1872
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: Latona
Type: 61' schooner
Owner: B. F. Carver [sic, i. e. W. D. Pickman]
Year: 1872
Row No.: 371
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 Net Register Tons (31.95) from the 1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List (Old Measurement Tons were reported as 55 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.)
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