Model No. 520: Spalpeen

Model by: NGH
Made when: May 1896
Estimated model scale: 1/30
Model length (ca.): 29.9" (76.0cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/30 (ca.): 74' 10" (22.8m)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Sloop (0); Aux. Steam Ketch (1)
Hull Configuration: Keel
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"No. 481 SPALPEEN 56' WL 19 1/2" frame space
45' WL cruiser May 1896
New stern Oct. 26 1896" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"56' lwl Spalpeen, cruising ketch of 1896." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"A. S. deW. Herreshoff: ... That was a boat named the SPALPEEN, owned by a deaf and dumb man. They cruised quite a lot in her.
Halsey Herreshoff: What was that addition to the stern there ...?
A. S. deW. Herreshoff: I couldn't tell you. I don't know whether that was continued the whole length and they just did the stern to get the shape or ... [Note: The addition to the stern is the result of raising the sheerline by 3in, carrying the stern farther aft and changing the rake of stern post as per a note in Spalpeen's offset booklet.]" (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. and Halsey Herreshoff. [Excerpts from the transcript of an oral interview held with Barry Thomas and Maynard Bray, both Mystic Seaport Museum.] Bristol, R.I., October 15, 1975, p. 7.)

Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.