Model No. 406: Admiral's Launch

Model by: U.S. Navy / ASdeWH
Made when: July 1912
Stated model scale: 1/16
Model length (ca.): 37.9" (96.4cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/16 (ca.): 50' 7" (15.4m)
Power/Sail: P
Vessel Type: Power Launch
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Left

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by U.S. Navy / ASdeWH

Original text on model:
"No. 290 [sic, i.e. #291p]. Scale 3/4" July 1912 Admiral Winslow's launch USN designed and superintended by A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"50' loa Gasoline powered, twin screw Admiral's barge of 1912." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"#291. 56ft Admiral's motor barge. Model made to lower side of deck. Scale 3/4in. = 1ft." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene. Handwritten text in offset booklet HH.4.43, no date (ca. July 1912).)