HMCo #37p Waif

"The Fourth was duly celebrated here. That portion of the observance of the day not on the programme, commenced at a very early hour and was as noisy with pop-guns, small fire arms, horns, fire crackers, etc. , as could be desired by the most patriotic citizens. ...
Trades Procession.
... Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., with steamer on carriage, steam up and occasional blowing of the steam whistle. ... [A photo of this display is in the collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum.]" (Source: Anon. "Celebration of the One Hundred And Second Anniversary of American Independence." Bristol Phoenix, July 6, 1878, p. 2.)

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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #37p Waif even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Waif (HMCo-made index card)
• Waif (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.

Name: Waif
Type: Steam
Length: 30'
Owner: Oatman, A. E.

Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.

• Waif
• 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: Waif
Type: 30' steam
Owner: A. E. Oatman
Row No.: 736

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: 1877 [sic, i.e. 1878]
E/P/S: P
No.: 037
Name: Waif
OA: 30'

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.