HMCo #266p Polyana

"#266 35ft launch.
Frame spaces 13 1/8in, moulds as for #240. Sheer raised forward 2 1/2in to 0 aft x [?] see drawing.
Timbers 3/4 x 5/8 except between 12 - 21 incl. which are 3/4 x 3/4.
Planking 3/16 Cedar and 3/16 Mahogany.
Keel 1 3/4in deep, 7/8 above rabbet." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.030.] Undated, ca. May 1908. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"... E. Mallinckrodt of St Louis has placed an order with Herreshoff for a 35-foot speed launch to be operated by a 6-cylinder engine. The craft will be ready to deliver the latter part of June [1908]. ...." (Source: Anon. "Spring Meeting May 19." Boston Globe, May 17, 1908, p. 2.)

"The construction of the new 50-foot power boat for E. Mallinckrodt of St. Louis at Herreshoff's having been finished, and there being no new work on hand, the carpenters to the number of 15 were laid off indefinitely last Tuesday." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, June 28, 1908, p. 33.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., August 1 [1908] --- ... The speed launch Polyana, built at Herreshoff's recently for E. H. Mallinckrodt of St Louis, which on her trials developed a speed of nearly 20 miles an hour has been delivered to her owner at Jamestown.
The Herreshoff shops are closed down until the latter part of August." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, August 2, 1908, p. 36.)

"No. 7096 --- For Sale --- Price Reasonable, 35' Herreshoff runabout built 1908. 75 H.P. --- 6 cylinder Sterling, new 1923, with electric starter. Very roomy cockpit. [With photo. The only vessel built in 1908 to fit this description is #266p Polyana. Another possibility might be #265 Premier, but Premier was 1ft shorter.]" (Source: Haddock, R. M. [Classified Ad.] Motor Boating, June 1926, p. 56.)

"N/A"

Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #266p Polyana even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Polyana (HMCo-made index card)
• Polyana (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: Pollyana [sic, i.e. Polyana]
Type: Gasoline
Length: 35'
Owner: Mallinckrodt, E., Jr.

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

• Polyana
• 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: Pollyanna [sic, i.e. Polyana]
Type: 35' gasoline
Owner: E. Mallinckrodt, Jr.
Row No.: 537

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: 1908
E/P/S: P
No.: 266
Name: Polyana
OA: 35' 0"

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.