HMCo #66p Kauplius [Nauplius]

"YACHT-BUILDING AT BRISTOL. ... The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company have also in hand a small steamer for the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore. She is to be used by Prof. Brooks, in and about the Chesapeake Bay, in his scientific researches in marine, animal and vegetable life. Her interior is to be finely finished in oak and cherry, and will be furnished with one of the new swinging 'tent-awnings,' which were described in one of our previous numbers. ..." (Source: Anon. (C. P. Kunhardt?). "Yacht-Building at Bristol." Forest and Stream, April 29, 1880, p. 247-248.)

"The Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. shipped from their establishment last week, per steamer A. O. Barstow, a steam launch, twenty-four feet in length, to Baltimore, Md. This fine little steamer was built for Professor Brooks of Johns Hopkins University, of that city, and is to be used on the Chesapeake Bay in scientific investigations.
The same Company also shipped to New York one of the largest safety coil boilers ever built at their works, for Commodore Voorhees catamaran, which is being built at Nyack, N. Y. [Voorhees catamaran was a well-publicised but tragic attempt to build a passenger-carrying steam catamaran which suffered numerous setbacks and ultimately failed.]" (Source: Anon. 'Local Notes.' Bristol Phoenix, May 29, 1880, p. 2.)

"To the President of the Johns Hopkins University:
Sir: In accordance with your request to prepare an outline or summary of the work of the marine laboratory during the six years of its existence, I have the pleasure to submit in connection with the report of the sixth session, the following review of the history of the five preceding years. ...
Third, Fourth, And Fifth Years, (1880-82), At Beaufort, N. C.
The next year [1880], the Trustees of the University voted to continue the laboratory for three years more, and they provided a liberal annual appropriation for the current expenses, and they also voted that the sum of $4,500 be appropriated for the purchase of outfit, &c. After an examination of all the available localities, the town of Beaufort, N. C, about four hundred miles south of Baltimore, was selected as the site for the laboratory, and as a vacant house, suitable for the accommodation of a small party, was found there, it was rented for three years, and as none of the $4,500 was needed for the erection of a building, most of it was used, by the permission of the Trustees, in the purchase of two boats, for collecting. One of these, a Herreshoff launch, twenty-seven feet long, and eight feet beam, was built for us in 1880, and the second, a sloop forty-seven feet long and fourteen feet beam, was purchased in the summer of 1883. ..." (Source: Brooks, W. K. "Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory. Report of the Director for its First Six Years, 1878-83." In: Johns Hokins University. Johns Hokins University Circulars. Baltimore, 1883-1884, p. 84.)

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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #66p Kauplius [Nauplius] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Kauplius (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Nauplius (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.

• Kauplius
• 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: Nautilus [sic, i.e. Kauplius?]
Type: 24' steam
Owner: Johns Hopkins University
Row No.: 463

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: 1880
E/P/S: P
No.: 066
Name: Kauplius ?
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.