Herreshoff #188804es [Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena]

Particulars

Name: [Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena]
Type: Four-Oared Yawlboat
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1888-6 ?
Construction: Wood
LOA: 21' 0" (6.40m)
Beam: 4' 10" (1.47m)
Built for: Brown, George S.

See also:

#188803es [Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena] (1888)

#151p Ballymena (1888)

#221p [Electric Launch for #151p Bellemere ex-Ballymena] (1902)

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: 15
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room East Wall

Vessels from this model:
5 built, modeled by NGH

#190301ep Neon (1903)

#188803es [Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena] (1888)

#188804es [Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena] (1888)

#192503es [Yawlboat for Vanitie] (1925)

#260p [Launch for G. M. Altham] (1907)

Original text on model:
"4 oared boat #151 BALLYMENA 1888 \ NEON 1903" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"#151 Gig for steam yacht Ballymena of 1888. Also power launch Neon." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

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.

Offsets

Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.020.2

Offset booklet contents:
#151p (yacht tender), #190301ep Neon.

Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Note: "Reference to Offset Booklet HH.4.20.2 was added by CvdL as per entry in offset booklet: 'May 21st 1888. / Small boats -Str. no. 151 / Neon, 1903'." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 14, 2016.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 028-004 [075-005] (HH.5.02000)

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   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   Herreshoff #188804es [Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena] are listed in bold.
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Dwg 028-004 [075-005] (HH.5.02000); Construction Dwg > 21 ft. Yawl Boat for Steamer 151 (1888-06-05)

Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
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Documents

Nathanael G. Herreshoff

"May 21, 1888.
Small boats for st[eame]r No. 151 [#151p Ballymena].
Model 21" x 4 3/4" wide x 2" deep. Scale 1/12th.
Deduct in making frames for planking 3/8"
... for timbers 3/4"
[Total to be decucted] 1 1/8".
Frames spaced 12" for 24ft boat
Frames spaced 11 1/2" for 23ft boat
Frames spaced 11" for 22ft boat
Frames spaced 10 1/2" for 21ft boat
Frames spaced 10" for 20ft boat." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.020.2.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

Images

Peabody, Henry G. "Ballymena [#188804es.]" Photograph (cropped detail), negative no. 465?, 1891.

Further Image Information

Created by: Peabody, Henry G.
Image Caption: [Starboard Yawlboat for #151p Ballymena.]
Negative Number: 465 ?
Image Date: 1891-8-8
Collection: Library of Congress Collection, LC-D4-5353.
Image is copyrighted: No

Supplement

Research Note(s)

"Yawlboat for the steel steam yacht Ballymena #151p. Two of these boats were built, as per a note in Offset Booklet HH.4.020.2." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 22, 2021.)

"This vessel's contract date was estimated from the original plan date. Drawing 028-004 [075-005] from which this boat was built was drawn 1888-06. #151p Ballymena (for which this vessel was built) was finished 1888-10-06. This boat's contract or building date is about 4 months before #151p Ballymena was launched." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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