HMCo #48p [Steam Launch]

"[1879-10-15] Wed 15: Oct. 1879. St[eame]r #48 [Steam Launch], one on board, st[eam pressure] about 140 lbs, calm, one half mile at Popasquash in 2m 20sec. [This entry in space intended for April 28, 1878. Note, no date, but only month and year were stated by NGH.]" (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1879. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"N/A"

"[Item Description:] Handwritten notebook titled in pencil 'JAVELIN #52 Supplies' listing 'Supplies [delivered by HMCo] for st[eame]r JAVELIN (#52)'. Also 'No 48 [#48p Steam Launch] Supplies for 30[ft] Dinghy. Double 2 1/2 x 5 Engine, high pressure'." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.143. Notebook. Box HAFH.6.5B, Folder Supply List for Vessels. No date (1879).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #48p [Steam Launch] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Steam Launch (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: 1879
E/P/S: P
No.: 048
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 Unpublished database, ca. 2000.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.