HMCo #196p [Tender for U.S.S. Albatross]

"[1898-06-14] Tue 14: ... Launched #196 (26ft launch for U.S. Fish Commission).
[1898-06-16] Thu 16: ... Trial of #196 [Tender for U.S.S. Albatross]. [Alpheus] Packards here." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1898. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"#196.
Frame spaces 8 11/16"." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.013.] Undated, ca. March 1898. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Thursday afternoon [June 16, 1898] a new steam launch was put overboard from the Herreshoff boat shops. The craft is 30 feet in length. ... [Sic. As per NGH's diary #196p had been launched on June 14, 1898 and trialled on June 16, 1898." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, June 17, 1898, p. 2.)

"A steam launch about twenty-five feet in length was shipped by the Herreshoffs by rail to San Francisco, Cal., yesterday.
The boat is a fast one and is equipped with one of the new style Herreshoff covered triple expansion engines. The owner of the boat is the commanding officer of the U. S. S. Albatross, now at Mare Island navy yard, Sacramento, Cal." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, October 14, 1898, p. 2.)

"N/A"

"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink and pencil) trials booklet 'Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Experiments & Trial Trips. 1890. N.G. Herreshoff'. Relevant contents:
§51: #196p [TENDER FOR U.S.S. ALBATROSS] Trial Run with DuTemple type boiler (1898-06-15)
§52: #196p [TENDER FOR U.S.S. ALBATROSS] Trial Run (1898-07-06)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_02260. Folder [no #]. 1890-01 to 1898-08.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #196p [Tender for U.S.S. Albatross] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Tender for USS Albatross (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: 1898
E/P/S: P
No.: 196
OA: 26'

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.

"Steam launch for the 234ft LOA U.S. Fish Commission steamer U.S.S. Albatross." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. June 3, 2009.)

"Steam engine rating 48hp from undated (1903 or later) diagram by N. G. Herreshoff titled 'Marine Engine. Weights and Prices' in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 24, 2019.)

"Marine Engine of Inclosed Type. 3 1/2 & 5 & 8 x 4 1/2, 825[rpm], 48[hp]." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. Handwritten List of HMCo-Made Steam Engines. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum, MRDED1_00220. Undated, between 1903 and 1918.)

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