Herreshoff #193504es [Dinghy for William Gilman Low]
Particulars
Later Name(s): Billow II
Type: Columbia Rowboat
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1935 ?
Construction: Wood
LOA: 11' 9" (3.58m)
Beam: 4' 1" (1.24m)
Rig: None (rowboat)
Built for: Low, William Gilman
Current owner: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, RI (last reported 2024 at age 89)
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.
Supplement
Research Note(s)
"Billow II was purchased by William Gilman Low, a well-known yachtsman of Bristol, from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in the 1930s. She was donated to the Herreshoff Museum in 1992 by the original owner's daughter, Rhoda Low Seone (accession no. 92-57). This particular model has two air tanks, one forward, the other aft, to prevent sinking." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. [Based on information on display at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.] September 20, 2012.)
"It is unclear when this dinghy was built. We only know that it was bought by her first owner, William Gilman Low, from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in the 1930s and thus can only assume that it was also built in the 1930s." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 20, 2012.)
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