HMCo #49p Sinbad [Sindbad]

"The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company commenced work on another new steamer on Tuesday last [February 4, 1879], which is to be built for an English gentleman now residing at Newport. The steamer is to be about forty feet in length, and of the best material. [This is apparently a reference to #49p.]" (Source: Anon. "Locals." Bristol Phoenix, February 8, 1879, p. 2.)

"A new pleasure steamer, for parties in New York, forty-two feet in length, 8 1/2 feet beam and 34 feet deep, will be launched next week by the Herreshoff Manufucturing Company. The steamer will be fitted up with the Herreshoff coil boiler and Herreshoff engine. [This is apparently a reference to #49p.]" (Source: Anon. "Locals." Bristol Phoenix, March 1, 1879, p. 2.)

"No. 49 Sindbad, steam yacht, of Newport.
Built at Bristol, RI, by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., 1879.
6 39/100 tons; 38.6 ft. x 8.6 ft. x 3.9 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No decks, plain head, round stern.
Surveyed and measured, May 5, 1879." (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Sindbad.)

"... Of late years [the Herreshoffs] have turned their attention to steam and have given to the engineering world the Herreshoff engine and coil boiler. The list of steam yachts is a long one, including some of the fastest afloat, Leila [#40p], Aida [#92p ex-Permelia], Permelia [sic, double-counted, #92p], Ossabaw [#101p], (No. 100) [#100p Permelia], Gleam [#65p], Marina [#105p], Orienta [#89p], Nereid [#83p], Magnolia [#104p], Camilla [#72p], Dolphin [#54p], Xantho [#99p], Juliet [#78p], Sinbad [#49p]. ..." (Source: Anon. (W. P. Stephens). "The Herreshoff Works at Bristol." Forest and Stream, April 16, 1885, p. 236, 237.)

"The following is a list of the steam yachts built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, R.I: ... Sinbad, built in 1879, for F. S. de Hauteville, New York. Length, 42 feet; breadth, 8 feet 8 inches; depth, 3 feet 9 inches; draught, 3 feet 2 inches; speed, 10 miles per hour. ..." (Source: Jaffray, Edward S. "American Steam Yachting." Outing, April 1886, p. 23-25.)

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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #49p Sinbad [Sindbad] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Sinbad (HMCo-made index card)
• Sinbad (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: Sinbad
Type: Steam
Length: 42'
Owner: Schuyler, Philip, Esq

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

• Sinbad
• 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: Sinbad
Type: 42' steam
Owner: Philip Schuyler
Year: 1879
Row No.: 630

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: 1879
E/P/S: P
No.: 049
Name: Sinbad
OA: 42'

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.

"Date this vessel was finished was estimated as May 5, 1879, the date this boat was measured by the U.S. Custom House inspector as per the U.S. Custom House Record Book in the collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 6, 2020.)

"Built in 90 days (setup to finished; equivalent to 142 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"In the absence of better available data displacement was estimated by using the figure for Old Measurement Tons (6.39) from the 1885 Olsen's American Yacht List (Net Register Tons were reported as 4.73 by the 1890-91 Manning's American Yacht List) and converting to lbs by dividing through 2000 (short tons). Note that this figure can only be a rough estimate because register tons as reported in Yacht Registers correlate only loosely with actual displacement figures." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 17, 2015.)

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