Herreshoff #187211es Undine
Particulars
Type: Sloop
Designed by: NGH
Launch: 1872-9-3
Construction: Wood
LOA: 38' 0" (11.58m)
LWL: 33' 4" (10.16m)
Beam: 14' 0" (4.27m)
Draft: 6' 4" (1.93m)
Rig: Sloop
Displ.: 19,500 lbs (8,845 kg)
Keel: yes
Built for: Allan, Henry
Last reported: 1896 (aged 24)
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: 100Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Left
Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"SHADOW 1871 Unbeaten for 15 years
UNDINE 1872 Scale 3/4" = one foot" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"33'6" lwl Shadow, keel/centerboard sloop of 1871, built by JBH." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Related model(s):
Model 0028 by NGH (1880?); sail, not built
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
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"Mr. J. B. Herreshoff launched from his yard last Tuesday [September 3, 1872] morning a yacht built for Mr. Henry Allen, of Warwick. She is to be sloop rigged. The yacht is thirty-six feet in length, fine model, and well built. [Or is this a reference to #187211es Undine?]" (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, September 7, 1872, p. 2.)
Registers
1889 Who Won (#2018)
Name: Undine
Owner: S. H. Brownell; Club(s): 102; Port: Providence
Type & Rig Keel / CB Sloop
Tons Gross 10.26; LOA 38; LWL 33.4; Extr. Beam 14; Depth 5.6; Draught 6.4
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built when 1872
Note: Altered 1874 by Lenox
1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List (#2854)
Name: Undine
Owner: Wm. D. Sheldon; Port: Providence
Official no. 25216; Type & Rig K[eel] Sloop
Tons Gross 10.26; Tons Net 9.75; LOA 38.0; LWL 33.4; Extr. Beam 14.0; Depth 5.6; Draught 6.6
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1872
1892 Lloyd's Register of Yachts U.K.
Name: Undine
Owner: W. D. Sheldon; Port: Providence
Official no. 25216; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel] Sloop
Tons Gross 10.26; Tons Net 9.75; LOA 38.0; LWL 33.3; Extr. Beam 14.0; Draught 6.3
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1872
1896 Manning's American Yacht List (#1938)
Name: Undine
Owner: Winthrop Thayer; Club(s): 22 [Massachusetts], 62 [Hull], 84 [Corinthian].; Port: Boston
Official no. 25216; Type & Rig K[eel] Sloop
Tons Gross 10.26; Tons Net 9.73; LOA 42.0; LWL 33.4; Extr. Beam 14.6; Depth 5.6; Draught 6.6
Builder J. B. Herreshoff; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1872
Note: Alt[ered] from C. B. by Herreshoff, 1887
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: Undine
Type: 33' 4" sloop
Owner: J. N. Bourne
Year: 1872
Row No.: 703
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 (9.75) from the 1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List (Gross Register Tons were reported as 10.26 by the 1889 Who Won) 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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