Herreshoff #193602es Glory B.

"The GLORY B was wrecked in one of the hurricanes. She was an elegant plumb bow dinghy weighing exactly the rule minimum 150 pounds. Like [#193301es] VELITA she was built by my father in the home workshop. Tiny frames steam bent with smooth carvel planking --- no caulking but rather the trick of compressing the edge of each plank at its central thickness and then planning off a thin edge such that upon swelling in the water the expansive center of the plank sealed the seam for no leak. Mom and Dad raced GLORY B each winter for a number of years in the 30s. I don't know where her model is but feel sure there was a model for this boat." (Source: Herreshoff, Halsey. Private email communication to Claas van der Linde. December 10, 2009.)

"Glory B was lost in a hurricane; I need to check on which model she is --- likely I can tell --- also I have the original full size crib over which my father built the boat." (Source: Herreshoff, Halsey. Private email communication to Claas van der Linde. December 17, 2009.)

"... [During the hurricane of 1938 the boat shed between Sid’s and his father’s (Capt Nat) house collapsed, and of the seven boats stored in it, the Velita [#193301es] was the only one not completely destroyed. Sid’s dinghy, the Glory B [#193602es] was washed onto the piazza of the senior Herreshoff’s house, resting there in perfect repose. Sid’s little sloop, the speedboat Bubble [#285p] was feared lost, until she was dug out from a heap of kindling wood wreckage of several small waterfront cottages. The newest addition to Sid’s fleet, the 46-foot cabin launch, the Lang Syne [#251p], recently brought around from Marblehead, accommodatingly came ashore in his yard, so he had his whole flotilla stranded within a dozen feet of his shop door. ...[Also among the destroyed boats was #187406es Riviera. Two other boats that may have been in the boat shed and thus destroyed were #192101es Lantana which NGH reported to have been stored there as late as 1933 and #404s Coquina which was last reported to be in existence in 1932.]" (Source: Simpson, Richard, V. "The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave of 1938: Scenes of the Disaster in Rhode Island's East Bay." Roger Williams University, Bristol, 2012. http://docs.rwu.edu/hurricane_1938/1, retrieved April 12, 2014.)

"Glory B. received her name from A. Sidney deW. Herreshoff because his wife, Becky Herreshoff, used to use that exclamatory expression." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. [Based on information from private email by Halsey Herreshoff.] December 9, 2009.)

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