Herreshoff #190513es [Dinghy for #624s Sonya]
Particulars
Type: Columbia Rowboat
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1905-1-31 ?
Delivered: 1905-3
Job No.: 3373
Construction: Wood
LOA: 10' 7.25" (3.23m)
Beam: 4' 3" (1.30m)
Rig: None (rowboat)
Centerboard: No centerboard
Built for: Turner Farley, Mrs. [Dorothy] G[ladys] [England]
See also:
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: 706Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
Original text on model:
"Original COLUMBIA lifeboat for 499 14' [long] scale 1/12 Nov. 1899 gig for #503 506, 507 [unreadable] (cut dinghy 520 16x14 7 1/2" frames dinghy for 624 scale 10 3.4 over 16 * 10-8 [unreadable] / 529, 532, 533, 534 16x14 add-on bow changed and shear raised remeasured Dec. 4, 1909. Boats for 692 and later" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"14' lifeboat of 1899 for the cutter Columbia. Also used, with alterations to scale, mold spacing, freeboard, and with sailing rig added, for many other rowboats, sailing dinghies, and tenders. This shape became HMCo's standard for decades to follow." (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.4.111.4
Offset booklet contents:
#499 (14' lifeboat and 14 1/2' gas launch), 11 1/2' rowboat ([internal] job no. 6259), #624 (10'8" dinghy), 12 1/2' rowboat.
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Drawings
![Main drawing Dwg 028-030 [076-063] (HH.5.02028)](../Images_Drawings/250px/HH.5.02028.jpg)
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Herreshoff #190513es [Dinghy for #624s Sonya] are listed in bold.
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Dwg 028-030 [076-063] (HH.5.02028); Construction Dwg > Rowboat 10'-7 1/4" Long, 4'-3" Wide, Moulds 10 3/4 / 12 of 14' Figures, Sheer Raised 3 1/4" (1905-01-31)
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Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"Jan[uary] 21, 1905.
Make a set of moulds for figures in this book using scale 10 3/4 long for 1 ft.
For dingie to #624 make frame spaces 5 1/2" giving boat about 10' 8" long.
Sheer height to be raised 3 1/4" (by common rule) above height as scaled." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.111.4.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
Archival Documents
"[Item Description:] am delighted to hear the new boat [#624s SONYA] is advancing so rapidly, yachting world seems to continue to take the most exteme interest in it and the papers look upon it as quite an international contest, Fife & Mylne are both building new 52 footers to meet yours, have sent an order for a draft to my bankers & will forward the 2nd payment directly I receive it, would you kindly ask Mr. John Herreshoff if he would see about arranging the transport contract for me?, send my sailing master to Bristol, travel with the new boat, he has picked up a very smart crew, I have quite decided on the name for the yacht 'SONYA', I hope you like it?, I should like the name on the tiller, the life belt & the two boats [#190502es and #190513es] & my club burgee (the Royal Dorset Yacht Club) on bows of the two small boats, I am very interested to hear you have made some alterations in the model since I saw you & it is very kind of you to offer to make any change for me in the internal arrangement, but I am sure I shall be delighted with it, incl envelope" (Source: Turner Farley, Dorothy Gwendolyn. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_21310. Correspondence, Folder 64, formerly 86. 1905-01-05.)
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Supplement
Research Note(s)
"Exported to England." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
"Moulds 10-3/4 / 12 [? difficult to read] of 14' figures. Sheer raised 3-1/4", frame spaces 5 1/2", Book for #499, as per note on plan 28-30. " (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
"This vessel's building date was determined from notes on the original plan. Plan 28-30 (formerly 76-63) from which this boat was built was drawn 1905-01-31. The vessel's job number 3373 was assigned ca. 1905-01-18. #624s Sonya (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1904-10-29. This boat's contract or building date is 94 days after #624s Sonya was contracted for." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
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