Herreshoff #192902es [Dinghy for #1146s Enterprise or #1147s Weetamoe]

Particulars

Name: [Dinghy for #1146s Enterprise or #1147s Weetamoe]
Type: Columbia Rowboat
Designed by: NGH
Finished: 1929-11-29
Construction: Wood
LOA: 14' 0" (4.27m)
LWL: 12' 5" (3.78m)
Beam: 4' 8" (1.42m)
Rig: None (rowboat)
Built for: Aldrich, Winthrop [Syndicate]
Current owner: Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT (last reported 2024 at age 95)

See also:
#193302es [Punt for #1146s Enterprise] (1933)
#1146s Enterprise (1930)

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 #706Model number: 706
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
211 built, modeled by NGH

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.)
Note: "Reference to offset booklet HH.4.111.4 was added by CvdL because this boat was built from the same construction plan as other sisterships that were specifically mentioned in it." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 24, 2021.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 028-016 [076-012] (HH.5.02011) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   Herreshoff #192902es [Dinghy for #1146s Enterprise or #1147s Weetamoe] are listed in bold.
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  1. Dwg 028-016 [076-012] (HH.5.02011); Construction Dwg > 14' Life Boat for Columbia # 499 (1899-06 ?)
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.
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.

Documents

Maynard Bray

"YACHT TENDER BY HERRESHOFF, COLUMBIA LIFEBOAT MODEL
12' 5" x 4' 10" 1929
"... soon after 1900 he (Nathanael Herreshoff) brought out a model which we in the rowboat shop used to call the Columbia lifeboat model. The first of these was the racing boat on the deck of the cup boat Columbia, ... and a very great many similar ones were built. Perhaps my father modeled ten rowboats of varying proportions after the Columbia lifeboat model, but he never departed radically from this shape. This is the best model for a
tender I have ever seen. They row well, sail well, and are good dry sea boats, and will tow through anything ... a short deck over the stern very much increases their value as a lifeboat, as they can be easily and quickly launched stern first from the yacht without being partially swamped. In the case of a man overboard or a fire, the delay in bailing out a partly swamped tender may be most serious ..." L. Francis Herreshoff, The Common Sense of Yacht Design.
To add even more to her ability as a lifeboat, she has a watertight compartment under her foredeck. According to the donor, who at the time was president of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, this boat was used on the America's Cup defender Enterprise or the cup contender Weetamoe. [Note, that early photos of Enterprise show her with a Columbia dinghy on the stern, while later photos show her with a punt on the stern. (CvdL)]
STATUS: Fiberglass-covered outside, stern compartment cover missing, original, good condition.
DONOR: R.F. Haffenreffer 3rd
FURTHER READING: Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Common Sense of Yacht Design. New York: The Rudder Publishing Company, 1948.
Thomas, Barry. Building the Herreshoff Dinghy. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Publications, 1977. Gives detailed description of building a similar boat.
ACCESSION NO. 1975.454." (Source: Bray, Maynard with Benjamin A. G. Fuller and Peter T. Vermilya. Mystic Seaport Watercraft. Mystic, Connecticut, 2001, p. 209.)


Images

Supplement

Research Note(s)

"6 1/2" frame spaces, sheer as per book, as per note on plan 28-16." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"This vessel's building date was determined from notes on the original plan. Plan 28-16 (formerly 76-12) from which this boat was built was drawn 1899-06. #1146s Enterprise (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1929-08-01. This boat's contract or building date is 120 days after #1146s Enterprise was contracted for." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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