HMCo #57p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey]

"[1879-10-16] Thu 16: Oct. 1879. St[eame]r #57 [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey], two on board, one hald mile in 4 minutes, natural draft, onthing[?] off[?] at[?] 4 1/4'', st[eam pressure] 80 to 110 [lbs], arr[iving?] about 100 lbs, fresh head wind. [This entry in space intended for April 29, 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.)

"At his boat house now [Herreshoff] has two little steamers [#57p and #58p Launches for N. Y. Coast Survey] in process of construction, to be used in the United States Coast Survey service on the Mississippi river. --- Prov. Daily Journal." (Source: Anon. "Mr. Herreshoff And His Pleasure Boat." Bristol Phoenix, September 20, 1879, p. 2.)

"[Item Description:] Casting Book # 4, steamers #40p, #54p, #57p, #63p, #67p, #70p, #79p, #89p, #92p, #99p, #100p, #101p, #102p, #103p, #104p, #105p, #106p, #107p, #108p, #109p, #110p, #111p, #112p, #113p, #114p, #115p, #116p, #117p, #118p, #119p, #120p, #121p, #122p, #123p, #124p, #125p, #126p, #127p, #128p, #129p, #130p, #131p, #132p, #133p, #134p, #135p, #136p, #137p, #138p, #139p, #140p, #141p, #142p, #143p, #144p, #145p, #146p, #147p [castings by hull number; front page shows summary size and engine and boiler data for steamers 99 thru 146 as well as repair data for steamers #40p, #54p, #57p, #63p, #67p, #70p, #79p, #89p, #92p, #118p, and #128p]. Undated, vessels mentioned were built between 1878 and 1887. Dates mentioned for repairs range from 1885 to 1887. Note considerable informational overlap with Casting Book # 1, which as in this book also contains data for #99p through #116p, although it appears (!) that Book # 4 lists more patterns per boat than Book # 1. Likewise, considerable overlap with Casting Books # 2 and # 3 which also contain data for boats that are also listed in book # 4. It may well be that information in Book # 4 was copied from books # 1, # 2 and 3." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.120-07. Castings Book 4. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Casting Record Books Vessel Castings Book 4. No date (1878 to 1887).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Several superimposed penciled sections, some with pinpricks. They are labeled '94ft Torpedo boat [#118p STILETTO] 1883[sic]. Scale 3/4ft', '48f vedette boat [#74p & #75p Vedette boats for the English Navy and #85p & #86p Vedette boats for the French Navy]', '# 55 & 60 [#55p & #60p Torpedo Boats for Peru]', '# 57 & 58 [#57p & #58p Launches for N. Y. Coast Survey]', '#71 [SPORT]' and '# [blank] 33ft launch [probably #62p & #63p Launches for U.S. Navy and others from the same model]'.
On verso handwritten (in ink) satirical list:
Attention: 1 Bells
Are you there?: 1 Bells
Is J.B.H. there?: 2 Bells
Want N.G.H. at machine shop: 3 Bells
Want J.B.H. at machine shop: 4 Bells
Want N.G.H. at boat shop: 5 Bells
Want J.B.H. at boat shop: 6 Bells
Want sand paper: 1-1 Bells
Want cotton wicking: 1-2 Bells
Want drawings of catamaran: 1-3 Bells
Want drawings of steamers: 1-4 Bells
Want drawings of engines: 1-5 Bells
Want drawings for pattern maker: 1-6 Bells
Want brass screws, 7/8in no 8: 2-1 Bells
Want brass screws, 1in no 9: 2-2 Bells
Want brass screws, 1 1/4in no 10: 2-3 Bells
Want brass screws, 1 1/2in no 11: 2-4 Bells
Want brass screws, 2 3/4in no 16: 2-5 Bells
Want brass screws, 2in no 16: 2-6 Bells
Want tire bolts 1 1/4in by 7/32: 3-1 Bells
Want tire bolts 1 1/2in by 7/32: 3-2 Bells
Want tire bolts 1 3/4in by 7/32: 3-3 Bells
Want tire bolts 2in by 7/32: 3-4 Bells
Want tire bolts 2 1/2in by 7/32: 3-5 Bells
Want tire bolts 3 1/4in by 7/32: 3-6 Bells [Undated (ca. 1877?]." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0591. WRDT08, Folder 45. No date (first half of 1880s and ca. 1877 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] A group of at least 12 or 13 midship sections of different steam yachts, overlaid on top of one another, apparently to facilitate comparisons. Untitled. Some sections are labeled ('Deck #151 [BALLYMENA]', 'Deck #155 [AUGUSTA III]', '51 1/2ft yacht Feb[ruary] 1881 [???]', 'Vedette 1880-1 [#74p 149 and #75p 150]', '#59[?] [Open Steam Yacht Sidewheel]', '#57 & 58 Launch [Launches for U.S. Coast Survey]', '#153 [MADGE]', '#151 BALLYMENA', '(31)[?] [FRANCESCA (?)]', '150[?] [SAY WHEN]', 'LEILA [#40p]'. Undated (the latest yacht mentioned was designed in 1889)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_09100. Folder [no #]. No date (1899 or later).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #57p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin, Theo. Zeller and Charles E. DeValin. "Report of a Board of United States Naval Engineers on the Boiler and System of Machinery for Steam-Yachts, Steam-Launches, etc." Washington, Bureau of Steam Engineering of the U.S. Navy Department, 1880.
  Detailed descriptions of the boilers of four Herreshoff vessels (#43p Kelpie, #52p Javelin, #54p Dolphin, #57p Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey), testing results and procedures, praise of the lightness of the Herreshoff machinery and efficiency of the Herreshoff coil boiler.

• Launch for NY Coast Survey (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.: 057
OA: 24'

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.

"... Str. #57 - Repair Job. ..." (Source: Anon. [Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. (N. G. Herreshoff?)] No Title. [Handwritten Notes on Outer Cover of Notebook.] No date [ca. late 1880s.] Notebook in the Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, The Francis Russel Hart Nautical Collections, M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge, Mass., obj. no. HH.6.120.)

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