HMCo #176p [Launch for Massachusetts School Ship Enterprise]

"[1893-03-22] Wed 22: ... Launched str #176 28' launch for Mass School Ship Enterprise.
[1893-03-23] Thu 23 Snow last night, cold, light easterly [wind]. Tried 28ft launch [#176p] for acceptance.
[1893-03-25] Sat 25: ... 28' launch for USS Enterprise [#176p] delivered. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1893. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"An order was received by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., of this town; last week, from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Soley, for a steam launch twenty-eight feet in length, to be used at the Massachusetts Nautical Training School in connection with the training ship Enterprise.
The government has experimented a great deal with steam launches but none have stood the test as well as those made by Herreshoff." (Source: Anon. "A Government Order." Bristol Phoenix, January 14. 1893.)

"With one large cutter [#429s Navahoe] on the stocks, another keel [#435s Colonia] ready to lay and a probable order for a third [#437s Vigilant], to say nothing of more than the usual number of small racers and steam yachts, the Herreshoff shop is a busy place just now. ...
The general work of the Herreshoffs includes several steamers, the largest [#175p Louise] for Chas. B. Hayden, of Columbus, O., is 102ft. over all, 14ft. beam, and intended for lake and inland work. ...
The next steam yacht [#173p Kalolah] will be of similar model but 92ft. over all and 76ft. l.w.l. ... A third steam yacht for Mr. R. M. Riddle [#174p Loon] will be 62ft. over all, 10ft. beam. Beside these is a 28ft. navy launch for the Enterprise [#176p Launch for Massachusetts school ship Enterprise]. ...." (Source: Anon. "Building." Forest and Stream, January 19, 1893, p. 61.)

"Here vessels have been launched from the Herreshoff's establishment this week. Monday morning [March 20, 1893] the 90-foot steam yacht Kalolah [#173p] glided down the ways from the shop into the water. She is known by her builders as No. 173. Immediately after the Kalolah was afloat the 28-foot US. government steam launch [#176p] was put into the water. This launch is to be sent to the U.S. Navy yard in Portsmouth, N.H. to be used as a tender for the ship Enterprise. Tuesday morning [March 21, 1893] the steam yacht Louise [#175p], built for C.H. Harden of Cleveland was launched. The three were all placed in the water without any accident worth mentioning." (Source: Anon. "A Busy Week." Bristol Phoenix, March 25, 1893.)

"WORK ON THE BRISTOL BOATS. MUCH PROGRESS MADE WITH THEM AT THE HERRESHOFF SHOPS. BRISTOL, R.L. March 25 [1893]. --- Work has been rushed at the Herreshoff shops for the last ten days, and the results show in the launching of boats and the laying of the keel of the Morgan-Iselin syndicate cup defender. Early in the week a couple of steamers were launched from the north shop, and are now receiving finishing touches as they lie at the north pier.
... The twenty-eight-foot steam launch for the training ship Enterprise was also put overboard the first of the week and made a trial trip on Thursday. She came up to all that was expected of her and made nine miles an hour without crowding. She is planked with mahogany, and is a handsome-looking for one of her style. She is ready to be taken to Boston whenever the order shall be given. ..." (Source: Anon. "Work On The Bristol Boats. Much Progress Made With Them At The Herreshoff Shops." New York Times, March 26, 1893, p. 3.)

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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #176p [Launch for Massachusetts School Ship Enterprise] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Launch for Massachusetts school ship (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: 1892
E/P/S: P
No.: 176
OA: 28'

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.