HMCo #58p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey]

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey]
Type: Steam Launch
Designed by: NGH
Finished: 1879-10
Construction: Wood
LOA: 24' (7.32m)
Beam: 6' 6.75" (2.00m)
Draft: 3' 6" (1.07m)
Propulsion: Steam, Herreshoff, Simple exp., 1 cyl. (3 1/2" bore x 7" stroke); High press. con.
Boiler: Coil; 34" x 33"
Propeller: Diameter 24", Pitch 44"
Built for: U.S. Coast Survey
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Launch, eng. for'd of boiler. N. Y. Coast survey

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: 3007
Model location: N/A (Missing, nonexistant or unidentified model)

Vessels from this model:
5 built, modeled by NGH
#57p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey] (1879)
#58p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey] (1879)
#61p Waterwitch (1879)
#66p Kauplius [Nauplius] (1880)
#68p Fish Hawk Jr. [Launch for U.S.S. Fish Hawk] (1880)

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.

Offsets

Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.003.2; HH.4.003.3

Offset booklet contents:
#55, #57, #58, #62, #63, #70, #80, #81, #82, #111, #115 [56' torpedo boat & various steam launches];
#57, #58, #61, #62, #63, #66, #68, #70 [various steam launches].

Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 003-004 (HH.5.00150) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #58p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 054-004 (HH.5.03937): [Condenser] (1879-04-10)
  2. Dwg 003-004 (HH.5.00150): Construction Dwg > Launch - Stm (1879-09 ?)
  3. Dwg 003-005 (HH.5.00151); General Arrangement > Launch - Stm (1879-09-09)
  4. Dwg 061-002 (HH.5.04321): Fittings for Steamers No. 57 and 58, Stern Bearing Shoe and Skeg, Tiller and Timber Head Cap (1879-09-10)
  5. Dwg 065-006 (HH.5.04602): Rudder Pintle for Str. 57, 58, 59 (1879-10-10)
  6. Dwg 065-017 (HH.5.04613): Rudder Braces and Pintles (1886-11-03)
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.
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.

Documents

Other Contemporary Text Source(s)

"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.)

Archival Documents

"N/A"

"[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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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #58p [Launch for N. Y. Coast Survey] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.


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.: 058
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.

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