HMCo #51p [Launch for St. Y. Lurline]

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: [Launch for St. Y. Lurline]
Type: Steam Launch
Designed by: NGH
Finished: 1879-7
Construction: Wood
LOA: 17' (5.18m)
Beam: 4' 6" (1.37m)
Draft: 2' (0.61m)
Propulsion: Steam, Herreshoff, Simple exp., 1 cyl. (2 1/2" bore x 5" stroke); High press.[Stroke 15"?]
Boiler: Coil; 20" x 22"
Propeller: Diameter 14", Pitch 27"
Built for: Phoenix, Phillips [?]
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Launch for steam yacht "Lurline"

Note: Particulars are primarily but not exclusively from the HMCo Construction Record. Supplementary information not from the Construction Record appears elsewhere in this record with a complete citation.

Model

Model number: 3006
Model location: N/A (Missing, nonexistant or unidentified model)

Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by NGH
#51p [Launch for St. Y. Lurline] (1879)
#84p [Launch for St. Y. Pastime] (1881)

Note: This model is missing, is nonexistant or has not been identified. The number of vessels built from it is only an estimate based on similar features, such as dimensions, rig, machinery, etc.

Drawings

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List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #51p [Launch for St. Y. Lurline] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 006-016 (HH.5.00517): 14" Propeller Wheel, 27" Pitch for Str. # 51 (1879-07-07)
  2. Dwg 065-004 (HH.5.04600): Rudder Yoke for Str. 51 (1879-07-18)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
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Documents

Archival Documents

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Supplement

From the 1920 and earlier HMCo Index Cards at the MIT Museum
  • 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.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray

Year: 1879
E/P/S: P
No.: 051
OA: 17'

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.

Research Note(s)

"Lurline was a 96.85ft LOA, 88.25ft LWL, 16.7ft beam steam yacht, built in 1873 and 1874 by James Lennox and Samuel Pine for Phillips Phoenix of the New York Yacht Club as per Mannings Yachting Annual for 1875. Note however, that the American Yacht List for 1881 reports Lurline to have been built in 1871 by James Lennox in Brooklyn and lengthened in 1872 by S. Pine. The Bristol Phoenix of October 5, 1878 (p. 2) reports Lurline to have just received a new Herreshoff coil boiler." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 12, 2016.)

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