HMCo #284p [Power Launch for #719s Vagrant II]

"#284. 25ft 11in x 6ft 0in speed launch. Hudson 25hp motor.
Wind N.E. 10 mi[les] per hour
Screw 3 blades 18in pitch
[tabulated trial run data with best mean speed being 17.46 miles per hour]
Weight of launch without equipment ... 1920 lbs.
Nat and Tomas[sic] Brightman were onboard during trial." (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW.(?) Handwritten note in Experiments Booklet '1911 Trial Trips and Experiments' under date of May 8, 1912. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled '26 foot launch. #284. BUBBLE [sic. #284p was a Power Launch for Vagrant II while #285p was BUBBLE --- both contracted for in the same month and built from the same model with identical dimensions]. 1912'. With note 'W.L. length = 25ft-3 3/4in' and calculation arriving at a total displacement of 43.6cuft or 2690lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01000. Folder [no #]. 1912.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§11: #284p [POWER LAUNCH FOR #719s VAGRANT II] Trial Run best mean speed 17.46mph (1912-05-08)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator) and Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_04280. Folder [no #]. 1911-06 to 1926-05.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #284p [Power Launch for #719s Vagrant II] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Launch for Vagrant (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: 1911
E/P/S: P
No.: 284
OA: 25' 10"

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.

"Weight of boat with Engine 1920lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G.? Penciled Note on Construction Plan 002-071 (HH.5.00074). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

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