Herreshoff #192005es [Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10839]
Particulars
Type: Colonia Sailing Lifeboat
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1920-6-1 ?
Job No.: 10839
Construction: Wood
LOA: 18' 8" (5.69m)
Beam: 5' 6" (1.68m)
Centerboard: No centerboard
Built for: Palmer, Edgar M.
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 location: H.M.M. Model Room East Wall
Vessels from this model:
36 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"Sailing dingy for COLONIA July 1901 1/12
Numbers 217 and 218 (1903) frame spaces 8 1/2" instead of 7 1/2" raised 1/2" stem 6" aft flared out to 5' 5" beam Model cut away forward and remeasured before #218 set up Dec. 1901
1923 (01?) sailing cutter for ROAMER 1925 sailing cutter for Rob. Tod 1926 sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"#568 17'3" loa sailing dinghy of 1901 for the cutter Colonia. Also, with modifications, #217 Maisie and #218 Carmen, 20 loa electric launches of 1901, sailing cutter for the steam yacht Roamer, sailing cutter for the schooner Katoura, and sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (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.
Drawings
List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
Herreshoff #192005es [Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10839] are listed in bold.
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Dwg 028-056 [076-133] (HH.5.02055); Construction Dwg > 18'-9" x 5'-6" Life Boat for the Palmer Yacht (1920-07-13)
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Documents
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"Herreshoff is building four small sloops for members of the Beverly-Yacht Club, which will be raced on Buzzards Bay. Thomas W. Slocum is having a sloop of the 'S' class built by Herreshoff, the six-meter boat [Sheila #861s] from the designs of W. Sterling Burgess for Paul Hammond is planked and the launches for Edgar Palmer's new auxiliary schooner Guinivere, building at Lawley's, are completed." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, April 10, 1921, p. 59.)
"There are 4 small boats carried on deck [of Edgar Palmer's Lawley-built schooner Guinevere], built by Herreshoff at Bristol. A life boat, a gig and 2 launches. The crew's launch has a 4-cylinder Speedway and the owner's a GR Sterling.
The illustration shows the owner's launch at full speed and is a regulation Herreshoff power tender for yacht use. [See #192004es Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10838, #192005es Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10839, #192003ep Owner Launch for Guinevere, and #192004ep Crew Launch for Guinevere.]" (Source: Anon. "Guinevere." Rudder, October 1921, p. 6.)
Archival Documents
"[Item Description:] Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc. Tentative Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 1920. Tentative Comparative Balance sheet as at December 31, 1920 and 1919. Tentative Condensed Statement of Profit and Loss for Year Ended December 31, 1920. Including detailed profitabilty statements for several contracts including #367p Launch for St. Y. CORSAIR III for J.P. Morgan [loss of $20.71], #372p VASANTA for G. M. Pynchon [loss of $2,362.72], #373p ADOLAR for August Heckscher [loss of $1,277.95], #374p ALERT for Charles A. Stone [loss of $17,652.54], #375p PETUNIA for Henry L. Tiffany [loss of $2,122.67], #376p ESLOMA for William H. Vandervoort [loss of $5,244.00], #827s OHONKARA for Carll Tucker [profit of $3,257.44], 16 S-Boats [#850s ELLEN, #828s GOB, #851s MONSOON, #830s SPINSTER, #831s PAPOOSE, #832s WOODCHUCK, #833s CHEERIO, #834s WIDGEON, #835s KAJEE, #836s DAPHNIA, #837s DOODAH, #838s TEATICKET, #844s VANT, #845s SWALLOW, #846s FANO, #849s CIMA: loss of $7,548.16 (i.e. $471.76 per boat on a sales price of $2,450)], 8 Buzzards Bay Boats 12 1/2s [#829s FALCON, #839s SHELDRAKE, #840s OPITSAH, #841s MISTRAL II, #842s JABBERWOCK, #843s BULLRUSH, #847s PENGUIN, #848s DOODLE BUG: loss of $819.48], 4 small boats for yacht Edgar Palmer [GUINEVERE #192005es, #192003ep, #192004ep, #192004es: loss of $3,839.25]. [These documents found / filed with 'Tentative Financial Statements for the Period from January 1, 1923 to June 27, 1923.']" (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50660. Financial Statement. Subject Files, Folder [no #], formerly 124?. No date (after 1920-12-31).)
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Supplement
Research Note(s)
"Drawn by H.[erbert] F. Newman; Approved by A. S. De W. H.; Molds of #568 [Sailing dinghy for St. Y. Colonia] see Table of Offsets below;
Mast & Sail are like mizzen of 28-49 (76-124), Gov. Measurements 142 Cu. Ft. 14 Persons, as per notes on plan 28-56.
For Guinevere, Lawley-built for Mr. Palmer according to W. A. Baker's list of HMCo dinghy plans. Guinevere was a 195' LOA, 165' LWL three-mast schooner that had been launched on April 21, 1921 at Lawley's Yard in Neponset, Boston for Edgar Palmer." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
"This vessel's contract date was estimated from the approximate date of its job number. The vessel's job number 10839 was assigned ca. 1920-06-01. Plan 28-56 (formerly 76-133) from which this boat was built was drawn 1920-07-13." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
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