HMCo #84p [Launch for St. Y. Pastime]

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"[Item Description:] On HMCo stationery, 'by direction of Mr. Nat cabled you yesterday 'three, assyrian, eleventh, well', means #43p KELPIE and 2 Navy launches [#80p and #81p] are to go by ASSYRIAN MONARCH on 11th Oct [1881] ... the BARSTOW is to take from here and hoist them onto the A.M's deck', ice in my yard, 'houses no 1, 2, 3 = 4' o.k., Justin goes to school, Mr. Nat & myself still continue to get along finely, it makes it quite hard for Mr Nat to attend to all, the different departments (he has not said so however I judge from appearance), I have tried to help, please remember me to Mr. Seabury & Gray, H & B U.S. Inspector just arrived to inspect No 84 [#84p Launch for St. Y. PASTIME], she is a beauty, 76 [#76p IDLE HOUR] names now on J.R.[?], all seem satisfied." (Source: Smith, J. F. Letter to Herreshoff, J.B. Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection Acc. 86.31. HMM Library Rare Books Room (Various), Folder [no #]. 1881-10-07.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #84p [Launch for St. Y. Pastime] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Launch for St Y Pastime (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: 1881
E/P/S: P
No.: 084
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 Unpublished database, ca. 2000.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.