HMCo #33p [Tender for Sch. Y. Palmer]

" 'G', a writer in the Providence Evening Press, says he spent a very pleasant afternoon lately among the boats and boatmen of this town. In speaking of the work at the Messrs. Herreshoff's yard he writes: ... In the same shop is a 25-feet steam tender [#33p] for the yacht 'Palmer' of New York. This little vessel is a life-boat, and is similar to the one built last year for the torpedo station at Newport [#24p], only it is more elegantly finished, the seats and rail being solid mahogany. The boiler is about the size of a flour barrel and the engine is of brass, scarcely two feet high. The whole concern, boat, boiler and engine complete, weighs less than 1,100 pounds. ...'
'G' concludes his interesting article as follows: 'Altogether, there is more yachting and building carried on in this old town than the casual observer would be inclined to suppose, and it seems to be on the increase. A more convenient or more pleasant location for the sport could hardly be found, than Bristol harbor, with the broad bay beyond it, and it is small wonder that summer visitors should be coming to the conclusion that yachting is not the least of the pleasures of a season in this quiet watering place.' " (Source: Anon. "Locals." Bristol Phoenix, June 2, 1877, p. 2.)

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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #33p [Tender for Sch. Y. Palmer] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Yacht tender (HMCo-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.

Year: 1877
E/P/S: P
No.: 033
OA: 24' 6"

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.