HMCo #156p Antoinette

"[1889-02-27] Wed 27: Took order for st[eame]r #156 [Antoinette], 48'x 72' of galv[anized] steel.
[1889-04-02] Tue 2: C. ... Set up keel [for] st[eame]r #156 [Antoinette] (steel). ...
[1889-04-17] Wed 17: Began plating st[eame]r #156 [Antoinette].
[1889-05-08] Wed 8: Turned over steel 48ft st[eame]r #156 [Antoinette].
[1889-07-02] Tue 2: Launched 48f[t] steel launch #156 [Antoinette].
[1889-07-05] Fri 5: Tried steel #156 [Antoinette]. ...
[1889-07-10] Wed 10: Del[ivered] st[eame]r #156 [Antoinette] to Mr. Hopkins." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1889. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"July 6th 1889. St[eame]r no 156 Antoinette. 48ft Launch of Henrietta [#133p] type only built of steel. Launching weight including water in boiler, tools, & c 10862lbs. Coal on trial 500, water in tank 200 = 700lbs. 5 men 850lbs. Total 12412lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Note in handwritten experiments and trials booklet titled 'Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Experiments 1884 to 1889' dated July 6, 1889. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"No. 156 or Antoinette, steam yacht, of [blank].
Built at Bristol, RI, by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., 1889.
3.37 net tons; 46.6 ft. x 7.6 ft. x 3.8 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
Plain head, square stern.
Surveyed and measured, June 18, 1889." (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Antoinette.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 16:]
Antoinette, steam yacht, of Bristol.
Built at [blank] [HMCo].
3.37 tons; no dimensions nor specifications shown.
Previous documentation not shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) July 2, 1889. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: John B. Herreshoff. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence])." (Source: Survey of Federal Archives, Work Projects Administration. Ships Documents of Rhode Island. Bristol. Ship Registers and Enrollments of the Port of Bristol - Warren Rhode Island, 1941, s.v. Antoinette.)

"A beautiful steel steam launch named the Antoinette, built by Herreshoff, Bristol, R. I., arrived yesterday to F. L. Clayton & Co., to be shipped to Buenos Ayres on the schooner Ada Bailey, now loading a pontoon pumping-machine at Canton for that port. The little launch made the trip from Bristol by water." (Source: Anon. "Mammoth Freight Steamer." Baltimore Sun, July 27, 1889, p. 6.)

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"[Item Description:] Casting Book # 2 [B (there is another Casting Book # 2)] showing hull castings as per title only for steamers #148p Our Mary and #149p Jersey Lily. Contents, however, also include castings for other boats including #188903es Yawl Boat for #157p Aquila, #405s Alice, #406s Iris, #54p Dolphin, #65p Gleam, #104p Magnolia, #104p Magnolia, #133p Henrietta, #151p Ballymena, #152p Cushing, #155p Augusta [III], #156p Antoinette, #157p Aquila, #158p Launch for Seal Fishing, and #162p Judy. Also listed are many parts for a quadruple engine (probably for #152p Cushing or for #150p Say When or #151p Ballymena). While other casting lists record both castings made at home and at outside foundries, this book appears to list only castings made at outside foundries and none at home. A first part of the booklet from front to about the middle shows casting numbers, descriptions, numbers of castings and foundry where made with dates ranging from Sept 10, [1887] to Dec 14 [1889]. A second, upside down, part of the booklet begins at the end and then goes back to the middle showing for the same date range 'Patterns sent away' with pattern numbers and names of foundries these were sent to. A further section then shows castings required for #152p Cushing and as well as castings required for Lagging, Pumping Engines, Feed Pump and Air Pump, all these possibly also for #152p Cusing. A final section shows 'Patterns ordered home' with pattern numbers, foundry names these were received from and dates ranging from Sept 12 [1887] to Dec 16 [1889]." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.120-03. Castings Book 2B. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Casting Record Books Hull Castings Order Book 2. 1888-09-10 to 1889-12-14.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink and pencil) experiments and trials booklet titled 'Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Experiments 1884 to 1889. N.G. Herreshoff'. Relevant contents:
§40: #156p ANTOINETTE Trial Run (1889-07-06)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_03520. Folder [no #]. 1884-05 to 1890-05.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #156p Antoinette even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Antoinette (HMCo-made index card)
• Antoinette (MIT Museum-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.

Name: Antonette
Type: Steam
Length: 48'
Owner: Hopkins, Edward A.

Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.

• Antoinette
• 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: Antonette [sic, i.e. Antoinette]
Type: 48' steam
Owner: Edward A. Hopkins
Row No.: 39

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: 1889
E/P/S: P
No.: 156
Name: Antoinette
OA: 48'

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.

"Exported to Buenos Aires, Argentina." (Source: van der Linde, Claas August 25, 2010.)

"Built in 125 days (contract to launch; equivalent to 87 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Displacement from note in Construction Record." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 30, 2014.)

Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.