HMCo #112p [Drawings only for Open Steam Yacht built in Ottawa]
Particulars
Type: Cabin Steam Launch
Not built, not assigned, cancelled, etc.: 1884-6
Construction: N/A
LOA: 45' (13.72m)
Beam: 9' (2.74m)
Draft: 4' 3" (1.30m)
Propulsion: Steam, Herreshoff, Double exp., 2 cyl. (4 1/4" & 7" bore x 7" stroke); Comp. con.
Boiler: Coil; Size G.
Propeller: Diameter 28", Pitch 57"
Built for: N/A [owner in Ottawa]
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Open yacht. Furnished drawings. Built in Ottawa.
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 location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Left
Vessels from this model:
12 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"No. 77 60' long 1881 EDITH
78 45' long ditto 1881 JULIET
No 79 60' long ditto 1881 DIDO
No 99 45' long 1884 XANTHO
101 69' long 1883 "101"
No 110 69' long 1884 LUCILE
No. 120 69' long 1885 POLLY
No 163 73' long 1890 KATRINA
No. 171 73' long 1892 LOTUS SEEKER II
No 174 62' long 1893 LOON" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"60' loa Edith and Dido, steam cabin launches of 1881. Also, with scale change, 45' loa steam launch Juliet of 1881, and 45' loa steam cabin launch of 1884; 68'8" loa 101, steam cabin launch of 1883; 69' 8" loa steam cabin launches Lucile and Polly of 1884 & 1885, 72' 10" loa steam cabin launches Katrina and Lotus Seeker of 1890 & 1892; and 62' loa steam cabin launch Loon of 1893." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Model Comment:
"Reference to offset Model 603 was added by CvdL because this boat was from the same construction plan as #78p Juliet that was mentioned on the back of this model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 24, 2021.)
Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.007
Offset booklet contents:
#77, #78, #110, #120, #163, #171, #174 [various steam yachts].
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Note: "Reference to offset booklet HH.4.007 was added by CvdL because this boat was from the same construction plan as #78p Juliet that was specifically mentioned in it." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 24, 2021.)
Drawings
List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #112p [Drawings only for Open Steam Yacht built in Ottawa] are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
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Dwg 003-016 (HH.5.00159); Construction Dwg > Launch - Stm, 45' O.A. (1881-04-26)
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Dwg 072-009 (HH.5.05193): 12 1/2" Deck Flange and Cover, Also Ring for 12" Ventilating Tunnel (1883-10-05)
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Dwg 054-052 (HH.5.03985): Copper Condenser Pipe for Str. # 112 (1884-04-08)
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Dwg 007-017 (HH.5.00650): Shaft for Steamer # 112, Machinery Only Built Here (1884-04-12)
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
Archival Documents
"[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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"N/A"
"[Item Description:] Casting Book # 1, steamers #99p, #100p, #101p, #102p, #103p, #104p, #105p, #106p, #107p, #108p, #109p, #110p, #111p, #112p, #113p, #114p, #115p, #116p [castings by hull number]. Undated, vessels mentioned were built between 1883 and 1884. Note considerable informational overlap with Casting Book # 4, which also contains data for all of the boats mentioned in this book, although it appears (!) that Book # 4 lists more patterns per boat than Book # 1. Likewise, considerable overlap with sometimes identical information with Casting Book # 2." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.120-09. Castings Book 1. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Casting Record Books Vessel Castings Book 1. No date (1883 to 1884).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #112p [Drawings only for Open Steam Yacht built in Ottawa] 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: 1884
E/P/S: P
No.: 112
OA: 45'
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.
Research Note(s)
... Str. #112 - ---Ft. long. 4 1/4+7x7 Eng[ine]. G Round [Boiler]. ... (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.
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