HMCo #159p [Machinery only for Launch for Seal Fishing]

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: [Machinery only for Launch for Seal Fishing]
Type: Steam Engine Only
Contract: 1889-3-15 ?
Delivered: 1889-11-23 ?
Construction: N/A
Propulsion: Steam, Herreshoff, Simple exp., 1 cyl. (2 1/2" bore x 5" stroke); no air pump.
Boiler: Spiral Water Level
Built for: N/A [owner in San Francisco]
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: mach'y only. for same as #158

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.

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 002-002 (HH.5.00002) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #159p [Machinery only for Launch for Seal Fishing] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 002-002 (HH.5.00002): Construction Dwg > Steamer No. 158 (1889-07-10)
  2. Dwg 044-018 (HH.5.03474): Details of Boiler (1889-08-18)
  3. Dwg 044-015 (HH.5.03471): Boiler Caseing[sic] & Details (1889-08-21)
  4. Dwg 044-016 (HH.5.03472): Details Steam Seperator and Drums Boiler (1889-09-02)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
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

Nathanael G. Herreshoff

"[1889-11-23] Sat 23: Shipped launch #158 [Launch for Seal Fishing], boxed, to S. Francisco. [We may assume that the two steam engines, #159p and #160p, which had been contracted for by the same party, were delivered at the same time.] ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1889. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

Archival Documents

"N/A"

Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #159p [Machinery only for Launch for Seal Fishing] 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: 1889
E/P/S: P
No.: 159

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)

"Same machinery as for #158p Launch for Seal Fishing as per Construction Record." (Source: van der Linde, April 8, 2020.)

"Built in 253 days (contract to delivered)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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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