Model No. 219: Wildfire

Model by: NGH
Made when: December 1922
Stated model scale: 1/32
Model length (ca.): 35.0" (88.8cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/32 (ca.): 93' 3" (28.4m)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Aux. Schooner
Hull Configuration: Keel
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Center

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"68' W L. schooner "WILDFIRE" Dec. 1922 scale 3/8" " (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"68' lwl Wildfire, riveted steel schooner-yacht of 1923." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"... Note: Model has shrunk since frame offset were taken, which makes all half-breadths smaller and upper heights smaller, but lower heights larger." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Undated (after December 18, 1922) pencilled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.186.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

Related model(s):
Model 0219 by NGH (1922); #891s Wildfire
Model 0207 by NGH (1922); #1078s Thistle