HMCo #4p Anemone

"In [the] winter of 1867-68, I made the model and sail plan for CHARLOTTE, ... and in 1879, [sic, i.e. 1870] model for SEVEN BROTHERS ... and following her, [I made] a model and designed [the] engine for ANEMONE, which John built for himself. [She was] a very successful 38' launch, which I ran a good deal and made an interesting trip to New York and down the bay during a race." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Boats and Yachts that I have been Especially Interested in by Sailing and Some of Which I Have Owned." Bristol, April 1932. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 106.)

"[SEVEN BROTHERS] was followed by the pleasure steam launch ANEMONE in August of 1870. [Her] length [was] thirty-eight feet [and] was designed entirely by me (hull and machinery) and [the] engine [was] built entirely by John in John's machine shop." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "The Old Tannery and My Brother John." Written July 28, 1933. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 24.)

"The same year Captain Nat also designed the thirty-eight foot steam launch 'Anemone,' machinery and all. 'Anemone' was built for J. B.'s own use and Captain Nat ran her quite a little during that summer and made one trip as far as New York to watch the yacht races in the Lower Bay there. All of these vessels and several others he designed while working at the Corliss Engine Works." (Source: 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, p. 83.)

"A small steam yacht called 'Anemone' has just been completed at Mr. John B Herreshoff's boat works. Her dimensions are thirty-eight feet in length over all, and six and a half feet breadth of beam. The engine, which was built at the boat works, is of four horse power. She has seats on either side running nearly from stem to stern, and spreads an awning covering the whole. She was launched Thursday [August 18, 1870]." (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, August 20, 1870, p. 2.)

"The new steam yacht Anemone, launched from Mr. Herreshoff's yard on Friday [August 19, 1870] of last week, made a trial trip Saturday [August 20, 1870], starting from here at five o'clock in the morning for New Bedford, arriving in that city at ten o'clock, making the run in five hours. She visited Holmes Hole and other places in that vicinity and started for home Sunday evening, arriving at her wharf here about one o'clock Monday morning." (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, August 27, 1870, p. 2.)

"The steam yacht Anemone made the run of ninety miles, from this port to Norwich, Ct., recently, using only three bushels of coal." (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, September 10, 1870, p. 2.)

"The little steamer Anemone has been laid up for the winter in the yard of Mr. Herreshoff. Her engine and boiler has been taken out and stored." (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, December 3, 1870, p. 2.)

"The teachers of the First Baptist Sunday School and others made an excursion to Newport in the steam yacht Anemone on Wednesday, to attend the Baptist Sunday School Convention." (Source: Anon. "Local Tintypes." Bristol Phoenix, June 10, 1871, p. 2.)

"A handsome little steam yacht of about ten tons burthen, named the Anemone, was recently purchased at Bristol, R. I., by Arthur Cheney, Esq., the popular proprietor of the Globe Theatre, and Capt. J. W. Pierce, an old salt of this city, was commissioned to bring the tiny steamer round to Boston. As captain, pilot, engineer, fireman, cook, and 'all hands,' the Captain fired up and started from Bristol on the 30th ult., and reached Hyannis in 9 1-2 hours, a remarkably quick passage. Storms and heavy winds then set in, detaining the Anemone in port ten days, when Capt. Bibber of the yacht Juniata, shipped as an assistant, and the two bold mariners succeeded in doubling the Cape and safely anchored the little steamer in Barnstable harbor.
Obtaining a fresh stock of supplies here, they again got up steam and headed for Boston, at which port they arrived very wet on Saturday. The steamer sets only fourteen inches out of water, and has a flush deck, so that the waves wash over it unchecked, the same as on our monitor iron-clads, and kept the crew in a very moist condition. Capt. Pierce says the weather was rough throughout the voyage, but the Anemone behaved nobly, proving herself a safe, staunch, and very fast boat. --- Boston Herald." (Source: Anon. "A Steam Yacht Run by One Man." Bristol Phoenix, October 28, 1871, p. 2.)

"... In August 1870 J[ohn] B[rown Herreshoff] launched the 38-foot open steam yacht ANEMONE (HMCo 4). He quickly attracted attention to her by making several high speed turns about Newport harbor where a reporter in the Providence Evening News Press Boat 'boarded her flying' to interview the 'obliging and courteous builder, owner and master, Mr. John Brown Herreshoff' who gladly disclosed all the particulars about the vessel. [Providence Evening News Aug. 24, 1870]. ..." (Source: Palmieri, John. "Advertising the Herreshoff Way." Curator’s Log - October 2013. http://www.herreshoff.org/news/newsletter3.html, accessed October 21, 2013.)

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"[Item Description:] Photograph. [Backside of Trophy Cup shown in HH.6.208:] ANEMONE [#4p] 1870, LIGHTNING [#20p] 1876, STILLETO [#118p] 1885, HENRIETTA [#133p] 1886, NOW THEN [#142p] 1887, BALLYMENA [#151p] 1888, CUSHING [#152p] 1890, VAMOOSE [#168p] 1891, PORTER [#184p] 1896, MORRIS 1897 [#190p]." (Source: Anderström (creator). Photograph. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.209. Box HAFH.6.7B, Folder Photograph. No date (1899 ?).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #4p Anemone even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Anemone (HMCo-made index card)
• Anemone (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.

• Anemone
• Note: The L. Francis Herreshoff index cards comprise a set of some 1200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and / or ownership information. Apparently compiled in the early 1930s, for later HMCo-built boats like the Fishers Island 23s or the Northeast Harbor 30s are not included. Added to in later decades, apparently by L. F. Herreshoff as well as his long-time secretary Muriel Vaughn and others. Also 46 cards of L. F. Herreshoff-designed vessels. The original set of index cards is held by the Herreshoff Marine Museum and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.

Name: Anemone
Type: 38' steam
Owner: J. B. Herreshoff
Year: 1879
Row No.: 31

Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.

Year: 1870
E/P/S: P
No.: 004
Name: Anemone
OA: 38'

Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.

Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.

"Launched August 18, 1870 or August 19, 1870 as per conflicting reports by the Bristol Phoenix." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 3, 2016.)

Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.