HMCo #287p [Stock launch later Crew Launch for #722s Katoura]

"#287. 23ft 0in x 6ft 3in speed launch. 10-15hp Kermath motor.
Wind N.E. 20 mi[les] per hour. 1/2 mile course.
[tabulated trial run data with best mean speed being 9.68 miles(?) per hour]
Weight of launch without equipment ... 1995 lbs.
During the trials A.S. deW.H. was forward, and N.G.H. Jr. was amidships." (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW.(?) Handwritten note in Experiments Booklet '1911 Trial Trips and Experiments' under date of May 25, 1912. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"[Item Description:] Penciled sketch with profiles for 'Port Launch 722 [#287p for #722s KATOURA] ([Drawing] 2-72)' and 'Owner's Launch 722 [#191301ep for #722s KATOURA] ([Drawing] 2-83)'." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.124. Detail Sketch. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Detail Sketches. No date (1913 or later).)
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"[Item Description:] my wife and Mr Buchan are coming to Bristol, I would like to see the launch [#287p for #722s KATOURA] you propose for the port launch it it is convenient to take the covering off" (Source: Tod, Robert E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17020. Correspondence, Folder 45, formerly 146. 1913-10-29.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§11: #287p [STOCK LAUNCH LATER CREW LAUNCH FOR #722s KATOURA] Trial Run by ASdeWH and NGHJr (1912-05-25 & 1912-05-26)." (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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"[Item Description:] Hulls, anchors and pipe berth cut-out models and diagrams. Among others deckline cut-outs for BETTY ANN, #300p SHADOW III, NOMAD, Fishers Island 31-footer, Fishers Island 23-footer, Sub Chaser 110ft x 18ft, 11ft-6in Boat [built from Plan] 76-17 [now named Plan 28-21] (76-33 [now named Plan 28-23]) for Mr Tiffany's #934 [HARLEQUIN] [this may be a reference to #191901es], 18ft-9in Launch [#191002ep] used on #692 [WESTWARD], 14ft Rowboat [#190912es] [built from Plan] 76-14 698 [#698s WESTWARD], 19ft-4 1/2in x 5ft-4in Launch [#191304ep] for #719 [VAGRANT II], 14ft-8in Gasoline Launch [#190307ep] for 590 [#590s INGOMAR], 10ft-3in Boat [# ?] for 376 [#376p ESLOMA], 18ft Dories [#191729es] for #323 [SP-2840], #293 [Power Launch for #215p ROAMER], Vosper [Torpedo Boats built from 1943 - 1944), AMC Minesweeper [#411p, #412p, #413p, #414p], 16ft-10in x 5ft-1in [#191307es Colonia Sailing Cutter] for #719 [VAGRANT II], 711 Class [New York 50s], [dinghies #191308es and #191309es] for #722 [KATOURA], 12ft [dinghy #191106es ?] for 698 [#698s WESTWARD], 25ft-10in x 6ft-1in [built from Plan] 2-83 [#191301ep Owner Launch for #722s Katoura], 11ft-0in Rowboat [# ?] between davits on #251 [LANG SYNE] Feb [19]06, 23ft-4in x 6ft-4in [#287p Stock launch later Crew Launch for #722s KATOURA]. Generally undated, the last vessels referred to appear to date from 1944." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.130. Cut-out Models and Diagrams. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Models and Diagrams. No date (1944 and earlier).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #287p [Stock launch later Crew Launch for #722s Katoura] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Stock dinghy (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: 1912
E/P/S: P
No.: 287
OA: 23' 4"

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.

"Frame space 7 1/4in. Moulds as for #283 (change from #276) ([Drawing] 005-100).
Sheerheights as given in table.
Keel white oak 5 1 7/8in.
False Keel 1 3/4 white oak fastened with 1/2 Tobin Bronze Keel Bolts.
Planking of Cedar 11/16 thick.
Deck 1/4 Cedar + 1/4 Teak. Crown of Deck 3in in 6ft.
Clamp in Cockpit 1 7/8 x 2 1/8 Oregon Pine.
Clamp under Deck 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 oak.
Seat stringer 1 1/2 x 7/8 O[regon] P[ine].
Thwart 8in x 1 1/8 oak with 2 hackmatack knees each side.
Floor of spruce 1/2 x 2.
Floorbeams 1 3/8 x 3/4 yellow pine.
Cockpit coaming teak 3in above deck x 11/16 thick.
Sheer of 1 3/16 teak, covered with 7/8 half oval brass.
Stern of cedar 5/8 thick, about 3ft - 10in rad[ius].
Bulkheads watertight 1/4in x 1/4 cedar on # 5 & # 34.
Stiffeners for bulkhead 3/4 x 1 3/8 oak spaced about 8in.
Deckbeams 3/4 x 1 3/8 oak.
Sheerstrake of teak." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Note on Construction Plan 2-72 (HH.5.00075). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT-Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Weight without equipment 1995 lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G.? Penciled Note on Construction Plan 2-72 (HH.5.00075). 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.