Model No. 424: Launch for U.S.S. Yankton et al.

Model No. 424


Model by: NGH
Made when: December 1897
Model length (ca.): 25.7" (65.2cm)
Power/Sail: P
Vessel Type: Steam Launch (23); Power Launch (6); High Speed Steam Launch (1)
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Left

Vessels from this model:
30 built, modeled by NGH
#197p [Steam Tender for U.S.C.S. Yankton] (1898)
#198p [Steam Tender for U.S.C.S. Yankton] (1898)
#199p [Steam Tender for U.S.C.S. Eagle] (1898)
#200p [Steam Tender for U.S.C.S. Yosemite] (1899)
#201p [Steam Tender for U.S. Coast Survey] (1899)
#202p [Steam Tender for U.S.C.S. Vixen] (1899)
#204p [Launch for St. Y. Valiant] (1899)
#214p Isis [Launch for St. Y. Isis] (1902)
#220p Atala (1902)
#227p [Launch for St. Y. Yacona] (1902, Extant)
#233p Delaware Junior [Launch for St. Y. Delaware] (1903)
#237p North Star II [Launch for St. Y. North Star II] (1903)
#238p [Launch for U.S.S. Eagle] (1903)
#239p [Launch for U.S.S. Vixen] (1903)
#240p 240 (1904, Extant)
#241p [Launch for St. Y. Haida] (1903)
#242p Breeze (1904)
#246p [Steam Launch for U.S.S. Yankton] (1904)
#255p Electra Jr. [Launch for St. Y. Electra] (1906)
#257p [Gannet (? Launch for St. Y. Electra)] (1907)
#262p [Launch for St. Y. Iolanda] (1908)
#263p Cassandra Jr. [Launch for St. Y. Cassandra] (1908)
#265p Premier (1908)
#266p Polyana (1908)
#270p Wanderer Jr. [Launch for St. Y. Wanderer] (1909)
#271p Diana (1909)
#272p [Launch for St. Y. Iolanda] (1909)
#273p [Launch for St. Y. Iolanda] (1910)
#274p Haulrey Jr. [Launch for St. S. Hatuey / Houtrey] (1910)
#275p [Launch for U.S.S. Scorpion] (1910)

Original text on model:
"[#197] Model made 1897 and changed in fall 1897 26' long frame spaces 9 3/4
[#198] 198 ditto everything
[#199] 199 28' long frame spaces 10 1/2
[#200] 200 ditto all the way
[#201] 201 ditto all the way
[#202] 202 30' long frames spaces 10 1/2
[#204] 204 ditto all the way
[#227] 227 30 YACOMA [sic, i.e. Yacona]
[#233] no number [should be 233] 28 DELEWARE
[#238] 239 [should be 238] 28 US EAGLE
[#239] dash [should be 239] 26" [should be 28] VIXEN
[#240] 240 30' by 5' "240" gasoline
[#246] 246 28' USN
[#262] 262 28' M plant [unreadable name]
[#263] 263 34' Cassandra
[#265] 34? J.B.H. Premier gasoline [i.e. #265]
[#???] ? 34 by 5 gasoline [this is apparently another reference to #265p Premier]
[#270] ? 28 WANDERER [should be 270]
[#???] ? 34' ILONDA ? [sic, i.e. Morton Plant's steamyacht IOLANDA] 1909
[#255] also 2 [unreadable] for ELECTRA [sic, i.e. #255 and #257] and 1 for ILONDA [sic, i.e. Morton Plant's steamyacht IOLANDA]
[#257]
[#272?]
[#273] 273 35' ILONDA [sic, i.e. Morton Plant's steamyacht IOLANDA]
[#274] 274 Sept. 1910 Cuban [sic, i.e. Haulrey Jr.]
[#275] 275 Oct 1910 28' USN SCORPION" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"26' steam launch of 1898 for the coast survey vessel Yankton. Others built of various sizes over the next dozen years, with scale changes, including the 30' gasoline launch 240 that is now in the Herreshoff Marine Museum's Hall of Boats." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"Model made for #197 cut away, and sheer raised: ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanel Greene. Handwritten comment in offset booklet HH.4.30, no date (ca. November 1898).)

Comment:
"#242p Breeze was added by CvdL to the list of vessels built from this model, both, because she was listed in offset booklet together with other vessels built from that model and because the index in the 2004 Guide to the Collection lists her as having been built from this model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. 2008.)

"#271p Diana was added by CvdL to the list of vessels built from this model, both, because she was listed in offset booklet together with other vessels built from that model and because the construction record lists Diana as having been built from moulds of #265p Premier which was built from Model 424." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. July 13, 2010.)

"The notes on the back of the model apparently reference 4 launches for Morton Plant, but only three can be clearly identified: #262p, #272p and #273p. It is possible that only three launches were built as the models notes are difficult to decypher and ambiguous. Note however that the model notes reference a 34' launch for M. Plant from 1909, while the construction record lists #262p from 1909 to have been only 28' long." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. July 13, 2010.)

"See three sets of penciled pantograph hull sections and displacement curve in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum from January 10, 1910 titled '26ft Launch. 1st trial. Dec[ember] 12 [18]97'." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 5, 2019.)


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