Model No. 1102: Schooner for Brooks Prelim B

Model by: NGH
Made when: November 1891 (?)
Estimated model scale: 1/48
Model length (ca.): 37.5" (95.3cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/48 (ca.): 150' 1" (45.8m)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Schooner
Model location: H.M.M. Workshop South Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
0 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"[Blank]" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model identification:
"Newly identified model. This model is a perfect match for the one shown in schooner sailplan 2004.0001.0516 in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum' for 'The rig that will win in the 90ft class. N.G.H.'. With list of particularls 'Length of deck 134ft. Length Billet head to taffrail 142ft. Length on w.l. 88ft 3in. Beam 25ft 4in. Draft 11ft. Draw with c.b. down 23. Displacement, about 155 tons gross'. This model is apparently referenced in NGH design booklet entry dated November 1891 'Wgts of 3 Preliminary models for 90ft w.l. Schooner made for Mr. Brooks of N. Y.' as Model 'B. Length overall [no number given]. Length w.l. 88ft 3in. Beam 25ft 9in. Draft 11ft. Scale of model 1/4in per ft. [Calculated] Disp[lacement] ... 177.2 tons = 158.5 tons gross = 5510cu ft'." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 1, 2019.)

"Mr. Brooks of New York was John E. Brooks, who subsequently contracted with J. Cary Smith to design him the steel centerboard schooner Lasca (LOA 119ft. LWL 89.9ft. Beam 23ft) which Henry Piepgras built in 1892. Later that year Brooks also became part of the syndicate which owned the America's Cup Defense Candidate #435s Colonia." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 17, 2014.)

Related model(s):
Model 1102 by NGH (1891?); sail, not built
Model 1121 by NGH (1891); sail

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.