Model No. 528: Vision

Model by: NGH
Made when: August 1874 (?)
Stated model scale: 1/12
Model length (ca.): 48.4" (123.0cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/12 (ca.): 48' 5" (14.8m)
Power/Sail: P
Vessel Type: Open Steam Yacht
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Center

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"VISION 48 ft long scale 1/12
VISION 1874." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"48' loa Vision, open steam yacht of 1874, built by JBH." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"I do not know who modeled 'Vision' for at that time four different Herreshoffs were working for J. B., off and on. They were his father, Charles Francis Herreshoff, James Herreshoff, who was working out the coil boiler, Charles Herreshoff of whom we have spoken before as a farmer but who about that time had charge of the woodworking part of the boat yard, and Captain Nat, himself, who apparently even then made all of the working drawings." (P. 74; Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Wizard of Bristol. The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with An Account of Some of the Yachts he Designed. New York, 1953.)

Related model(s):
Model 0528 by NGH (1874?); #14p Vision
Model 1439 by NGH??? (1874????); power Model 1507 (1870s?); power