Model No. 2000: Torpedo Boats Porter and Dupont (?)

Model by: NGH
Made when: October 1895 (?)
Possible model scale: 1/32
Model length (ca.): 65.8" (167.0cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/32 (ca.): 175' 4" (53.4m)
Power/Sail: P
Vessel Type: Navy Steam Torpedo Boat
Model location: H.M.M. Other Models

Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by NGH

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

Model description:
"Shell plating strakes are laid out on this model.
Length 65.75 in width 3.25 in depth 4.38 in" (Source: Palmieri, John (Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum). Email to Claas van der Linde, October 21, 2010.)

Comment:
"Exterior Wall of Model Room." (Source: Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum, 2004.)

"On close inspection marks for metal plate layout can be seen on the model, indicating it was meant for a metal vessel." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. 2008.)

Model identification:
"Overlaying a photo of this model and the construction plan for #184p Porter shows a strinking similarity." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 27, 2009.)

"At a scale of 1:32 (3/8" to the foot) this model represents a vessel of 175.333' LOA and 16.333' beam. Porter and Dupont were 175.5' LOA and 16.5' beam, which translates into errors of 0.09% and 1%, respectively, strongly suggesting that this model was made for Porter and Dupont." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 21, 2010.)