HMCo #235p Mist

"May 20, 1904
Mist #235.
Same as Sunbeam, 229 [#229p] except sheer raised, has small boat & some other w[ei]g[h]ts.
Preliminary trial in Harbor on 1 mile course. WInd 6 miles, NE, high water.
Bunkers 1/2 full, fully equipped. 5 on board.
[Followed by tabulated trial run data with best mean speed being 16.41mph]
... Contract speed to be 17m[ph] running light (bo boat and without extra freeboard).
May 21, 1904
Mist #235
On Navy Trial Course at Rose Is[land].
Wind SSW 20[mph]. Flood tide, 4 on board, small amount of coal and water. Coal poor and hard to keep steam up.
[Followed by tabulated trial run data with mean speed being 16.88mph]." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. Handwritten note in Trials Booklet '1898 - 1909' under date of May 20, 1904 and May 21, 1904. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"In 1904 Captain Nat designed two very remarkable sister steam launches. One was named 'Mist,' built for Edward Morrell, and the other 'Sunbeam,' built for J. L. Hutchinson --- both fifty-nine feet long and eight feet six inches beam. They had small triple expansion steeple engines which developed approximately one hundred and twenty-five horsepower, and when new these launches could attain a speed of twenty-two miles per hour. I speak of them now mostly because they were of the finest workmanship throughout that I have ever seen: they were double planked, and the mahogany for each side and the deck was sawn from separate logs so they matched perfectly. The boiler was entirely enclosed in a polished brass casing; the cylinders had brass lagging, and the lower part of the engine, which was enclosed, had a casing of polished blue Russian iron." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Wizard of Bristol. The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with An Account of Some of the Yachts he Designed. New York, 1953, p. 244, 246.)

"Mist, steam launch #230, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, RI, by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., 1903.
12.59 gross tons, 8.50 net tons; 54.5 ft. x 8.5 ft. x 5.5 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, no mast, overhanging head, overhanging stern.
Surveyed and measured, February 29, 1904. [With note: O/N 200812.]" (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Mist.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 181:]
Mist, steam yacht, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1904.
8.50 tons; 54.5 ft. x 8.5 ft. x 5.5 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No specifications shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) May 17, 1904. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. 0. Herreshoff, Bristol. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) July 26, 1904. Owner: same. Master: same.
Surrendered [license] Aug. 1, 1905 at Boston. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) June 27, 1908. Owner: [blank]. Master: Amos F. Holden, Deer Island, Maine. ([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. Mist.)

"The advent of April is responsible for scenes of great activity about the Newport shipyard, where scores of yachts have been in winter quarters. Wednesday Herman B. Duryea's 51-footer Humma was launched, as was also the cutter Mildred, owned by George W. Weld of Boston, and the yacht Reposo [#161p Reposo], the property of Col Edward DeV. Morrell of Philadelphia.
The Reposo steamed to Bristol, where Col Morrell will trade her for a fast harbor launch [#235p Mist] which the Herreshoffs have recently built. As the Reposo is a Herreshoff boat and as she is comparatively new, her builders did not hesitate to take her back. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachting." Boston Globe, April 5, 1903, p. 22.)

"The fast steam launch Mist, owned by E. deV. Morrell, is at Lawley's for a new boiler. The Mist is used at Bar Harbor for a ferry between her owner's summer home and the mainland." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." August 2, 1908, p. 36.)

"In the lists printed on pages 36, 38, and 40, will be found a complete record of all motor boats and motor yachts which went into the service of our Navy Department during the war period. This is the first time that such a list has been published and is given to Motor Boating at the special request of the Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
The data which is printed is divided into four parts. Motor boats purchased outright by the Government; Motor boats loaned by their owners to the Government on a free lease basis; Motor boats chartered, and Motor boats lost.
The lists include boats propelled by internal combustion motors only --- they do not include steam yachts or steamers of any description.
A large majority of the boats purchased by the Government are to be offered for sale at once. Those which are to be sold are marked with a *. ...
*Mist [Name of Boat]; 567 [S.P. No.]; 59 [Length]; 3,000.00 [Purchase Price]; Edward Morrell, Philadelphia, Pa. [Former Owner]. ..." (Source: Anon. "Privately Owned Motor Boats Purchased by the Government. First List to Be Published Containing Names of Motor Boats Taken Into the Navy." Motor Boating, February 1919, p. 36-40.)

"Mist (Steam Launch, 1904).
Served as USS Mist (SP-567) in 1917-1919
Mist, an 59-foot steam launch, was built in 1904 by Herreshoff at Bristol, Rhode Island, for use as a pleasure craft. She was placed in commission as USS Mist (SP-567) in late April 1917 and formally acquired by the Navy a few weeks later. During World War I, Mist operated near Boston, Massachusetts, on guard and dispatch duties and also supported the Boston area Mine Sweeping Division. She was returned to her owner in early February 1919." (Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-m/mist.htm, retrieved March 23, 2007.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled table with steam engine data ('Boiler [pressure], 'SS', '1st Int', '2 Int', 'Vac[uum]', 'R[evolutions]') for FLORENCE [#208p], EUGENIA [#205p] (in 1902 and 1904), ROAMER [#215p] (in 1902, 1904 and 1905), SUNBEAM [#229p], MIST [#235p], and PARTHENIA [#222p]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01400. Folder [no #]. No date (1905 or later).)
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"[Item Description:] Handwritten notebook. This booklet had two lives: In 1907-1908, 1908-1909 and 1909-1910 it was used for winter storage records, listing name of boat, owner, storage location, billed amount, and dates of storage. Listed were for the winter of 1907/1908: #235p MIST, ORIANA, #571s LARIKIN, EAGLET, #453s VAQUERO II, #580s TRIVIA, #663s ISTALENA, COSSACK, #666s AVENGER, #220p ATALA (for sale), #207p MIRAGE, #224p EUGENIA, #146p AUGUSTA, #247p SEA URCHIN, #105p COSETTE, ARLINE, #213p FLORENCE, #208p FLORETTE, #249p SISILINA, #591s IROLITA, #481s SPALPEEN, DUCHESS, #669s ELEANOR, #460s KILDEE, #647s CAPRICE, #408s PELICAN, #243p SWIFTSURE, #617s COCK ROBIN, #177p VANISH, #446s ALERION, and #591s IROLITA I, for the winter of 1908/1909: #666s AVENGER, #663s ISTALENA, #481s SPALPEEN, #580s TRIVIA, #617s COCK ROBIN, COSSACK, #177p VANISH, #242p #242, #243p SWIFTSURE, SKIP, #446s ALERION, CHEWINK II, DUCHESS, #571s LARIKIN, #460s KILDEE, #679s PEPITA, EAGLET, #408s PELICAN, #453s VAQUERO, #146p AUGUSTA, #224p EUGENIA, COYOTE, #264p SARAH WEBB, #207p MIRAGE, ARLINE, #213p FLORENCE, #208p FLORETTE, #249p SISILINA, #591s IROLITA I, CASSANDRA 27ft Launch, and #263p CASSANDRA 34ft Launch, and for the winter of 1909/1910: #252p WANECHE (no further boats were listed). At some later time, the same book was turned upside down and inscribed with a new title in ink '200Ft Submarine Destroyer [#191802ep Unbuilt 200ft Submarine Chaser]. Data + Calculation Book. Herreshoff Mfg Co.' on its now-new front cover (formerly its back cover), followed by weight data estimates and calculations for this submarine destroyer." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Notebook. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.087. Box HAFH.6.2B, Folder Submarine Destroyer 200-Footer. 1907-1908, 1908-1909, 1909-1910, 1918-06.)
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"[Item Description:] Four handwritten (in ink) pages with tabulated data listing 'Shop No', 'Name', '[Tons] Gross' and '[Tons] Net' for a total of 100 HMCo-built boats and classes. Tonnage data is usually precise to two digits behind the decimal. Random comparisons suggest source of tonnage data to be official Custom House data. Boats mentioned are: #664s, #663s, #625s, #665s, #634s, #658s, #657s, #646s, #641s, #617s, #626s Class, #624s, #621s, #616s, #619s, #590s, #591s, #586s, #592 Class, #618s, #605s, #578s, #560s Class, #580s, #553s, #551s, #552s, #546s, #541s, #545s, #538s, #534s, #533s, #532s, #529s, #534s, #530s, #531s, #435s, #437s, #452s, #499s, #429s, #426s, #424s, #481s, #422s, #417s, #414s, #451s, #215p, #213p, #222p, #235p, #230p, #229p, #236p, #224p, #244p, #247p, #249p, #231p, #232p, #228p, #252p, #250p, #251p, #248p, #168p, #164p, #118p, #142p, #174p, #173p, #194p, #189p, #193p, #183p, #178p, #179p, #181p, #182p, #175p, #163p, #148p, #149p, #172p, #155p, #170p, #186p, #188p, #206p, #207p, #205p, #208p, #209p, #210p, #211p, #212p, #216p. Undated (the latest boat listed, WINSOME, was launched in 1907)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Handwritten List. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00220. Folder [no #]. No date (1907 or later).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (mostly in pencil but also in ink) trials booklet titled '1898 - 1909'. Relevant contents:
§33: #235p MIST Trial Run best mean speed 16.88mph (1904-05-20 & 1904-05-21)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE09_00060. Folder [no #]. 1898-09 to 1911-04.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #235p Mist even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Mist (HMCo-made index card)
• Mist (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: Mist
Type: Steam
Length: 59'
Owner: Mirrell, Edward [sic, i.e. deV. Morrell?]

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

• Mist
• Lassie ex-Mist
• 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: Mist
Type: 59' launch
Owner: Edward deV. Morrell
Year: 1904
Row No.: 446

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: 1903
E/P/S: P
No.: 235
Name: Skirt
OA: 59'
LW: 52' 6"

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 engine rating 140hp 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. 5 5/8 & 8 & 12 1/2 x 7, 615[rpm], 140[hp]. [Note:] 142 [hp in pencil]." (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.)

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