HMCo #82p Cygnet

"... A launch 33 feet long has also been supplied [by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company] to the Fish Commission, and is now doing valuable duty on the Potomac. ..." (Source: Anon. "Steam Yacht Building In Rhode Island. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company And Its Operations." The Mechanical Engineer, September 2, 1882, p. 55.)

"Launch No. 82.
The service of several steam launches is always required in the work of the Commission, especially in connection with the propagation of the shad, for collecting the eggs from distant points, and transferring them to the proper stations.
The Navy Department very kindly furnished the Commission with two launches, as heretofore, namely, Nos. 49 and 55; but an additional one being required, Launch No. 82, subsequently christened the Cygnet, was purchased from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, and put immediately into use. This boat, about 33 feet long, was found in every way to answer a satisfactory purpose. ..." (Source: United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. "Report of the Commissioner for 1882." Washington, 1884, p. xxix.)

"The only launch actually belonging to the miscellaneous service of the Commission, Herreshoff, No. 82, was in constant service during the year. In the spring she served as a tender to the work of fish propagation at Battery Station, and in the summer she was used in connection with the marine investigations at Wood's Holl. By reason of her general seaworthiness, she was able to proceed without convoy to the New England coast, and to return without any damage." (Source: United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. "Report of the Commissioner for 1883." Washington, 1885, p. xxiv-xxxv.)

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"[Item Description:] Casting sketch notebook (original copy) [Titled Nathl G. Herreshoffp, Bristol R.I.; 1882, mostly signed by N.G.H.; material and item orders relating to steamers #81p, #82p, #83p, #88p, #89p, #90p, #91p, #92p, #95p, #98p, stock for new boat shop]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Notebook. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.120-10. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Casting Record Books Sketch and Order Book 1882 NGH. 1882.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #82p Cygnet even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Cygnet (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: 1882
E/P/S: P
No.: 082
OA: 33' 1"
LW: 30'-4"

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.