Model No. 1409: Sloop???
Model by: NGH or JBH?
Made when: 1867 (???)
Possible model scale: 1/12
Model length (ca.): 35.1" (89.1cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/12 (ca.): 35' 1" (10.7m)
Power/Sail: S or P?
Vessel Type: Sloop???
Model location: H.M.M. Workshop North Wall Left a
Original text on model:
"[Blank]" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model discussion:
"[Possible relationship (see note below):] For the following year [1866], I made models for three thirty-six foot overall sloops, HAIDEE 2nd, ARIAL, and FALCON, the last for one of my father's fishing gangs, and also for a twenty-three foot overall, twenty-one foot waterline catboat for Captain Benjamin Gibbs. Those craft were very satisfactory and with fair speed, but not quite unexcelled. It is funny, but they appeared to improve as they grew older. ... The following summer, 1866, John had an order from Mr. Edward Dexter for a thirty-five foot sloop [VIOLET], and she was built on the same molds as the three sloops just mentioned, except the bilges were made a little fuller, giving more breadth at the waterline and was, without doubt, an improvement. However, on trial, it was found KELPIE 2nd was a little faster than VIOLET to windward, although smaller. To prevent John and Dexter Stone (they were in partnership then) [from] using this model [Model 3107] any more, I took an axe and cut it up, then went to work and made a new model for a same sized sloop yacht. [Might this new model be the unlabeled Model 1409 which together with Model TR255_002 appears to be the only model for a sailboat in the HMM Model Room that scales to an overall length of about 35ft? Note, that this model bears considerable similarity with Model 803 made in 1864 for #186407es Qui Vive.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Some of the Boats I Have Sailed In." Written 1934. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 47.)
Related model(s):
Model 1409 by NGH or JBH? (1867?); sail or power?
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