Herreshoff #188204es Sand Fly
Particulars
Type: Catboat
Designed by: NGH
Launch: 1882
Construction: Wood
LOA: 16' 0" (4.88m)
LWL: 16' 0" (4.88m)
Beam: 7' 0" (2.13m)
Draft: 1' 2" (0.36m)
Rig: Cat
Built for: N/A [R. H. Coleman owner in 1890]
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: 516Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
4 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"SABRINA 1878 (MINNEHAHA)
NORA 1878 (SWANEE)
SAND FLY 1882
CALYPSO 1889 (6" longer aft)" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"15'9" lwl Calypso, sloop of 1889 with 6" more aft overhang than model; also Sabrina of 1878, Nora of 1878, and Sand Fly of 1882." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Related model(s):
Model 1530 by NGH? (1878?); sail or power?
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)
"The Herreshoff Company, at Bristol, R. I., are building a steam launch for Mr R. H. Coleman's steam yacht Seminole. She is 16 ft. long, and is to be called Sand Fly." [Note: Nothing else beyond this note is known about a 16ft steam launch for R. H. Coleman. The catboat Sand Fly was built 7 years earlier but carried the same name and was built for the same owner.] (Source: Anon. "New Yachts for March." The Spirit of The Times, April 11, 1885, p. 318.)
Registers
1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List (#2495)
Name: Sand Fly
Owner: R. H. Coleman; Club(s): 25 [Seawanhaka], 52 [Philadelpia]; Port: New York
Type & Rig CB Cat.
LOA 16.0; LWL 16.0; Extr. Beam 7.0; Depth 2.0; Draught 1.2
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R. I.; Built when 1878
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: Sandfly
Type: 16' cat
Owner: R. H. Coleman
Year: 1878
Row No.: 590
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)
"Inscription on back of model indicates that Sand Fly was buit in 1882, while various editions of the American Yacht List indicates 1878 as building year." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 5, 2023.)
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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