Model No. 203: Nora

Model by: NGH
Made when: 1880
Estimated model scale: 1/12
Model length (ca.): 19.0" (48.1cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/12 (ca.): 18' 11" (5.8m)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Catboat
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Center

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"NORA 1880" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"Nora of 1880." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Comment:
"Close inspection of the model suggests that a layer of wood has been glued to the top of the model, adding to its freeboard." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 16, 2014.)

Model identification:
"This model is for a catboat owned by Albert S. Almy whose sister was was married to Charles F. Herreshoff and who himself was employed at HMCo since about 1878 where he was foreman of the carpenter department until about 1903 when he retired. See NGH design book entry dated October 15, 1888 'Weighing of model of A. Almy's boat Nora, 18ft, to waterline marked on model, scale 1/12, ... Disp[lacement] = ... 3682lbs'. [NGH was working on a new method to determine displacement from models and was using old models with known vessel weights to validate his method, which would explain why he would work on a model that he had carved several years earlier.]" (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 16, 2014.)

"Is this model for #1882es Nora, the 18ft leg-o-mutton catboat launched on July 3, 1882 for Albert S. Almy rather than for #188001es Nora as stated on the model? Might the stated date 1880 on this model be wrong? Note that that the Nora from 1880 was only 15ft 11in long as per a 1881 Providence Evening Bulletin article." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 15, 2024.)