HMCo #302p [Owner Launch for #722s Katoura]
Particulars
Name: [Owner Launch for #722s Katoura]Type: Power Launch
Designed by: ASdeWH
Contract: 1916-6-21
Construction: Wood
LOA: 25' 10" (7.87m)
Beam: 6' 1" (1.85m)
Displ.: 2,285 lbs (1,036 kg)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Sturdevant, 75 h.p. ; 4 cyl. 4 1/2" x 6"
Propeller: Diameter 17", Pitch 28", 3 blades R.H. #10880
Built for: Tod, Robert E.
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Starboard Launch for "Katoura"
See also:
Note: Particulars are primarily but not exclusively from the HMCo Construction Record. Supplementary information not from the Construction Record appears elsewhere in this record with a complete citation.
Model
Model number: 411Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Left
Vessels from this model:
12 built, modeled by ASdeWH
Original text on model:
"BUBBLE (285) Scale 3/4" = 1' Dec. 1911 by Sidney KATOURA's launch 1913-14 (burned)
KATOURA's second launch 1916" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"25'10" loa Bubble, gasoline launch of 1911." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.
Drawings
Explore all drawings relating to this boat.List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #302p [Owner Launch for #722s Katoura] are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
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Dwg 010-027 (HH.5.00869): [Prop Shaft Coupling and Details] (1885-09-15)
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Dwg 011-049 (HH.5.00975): Shaft Stuffing Box for # 256 (1906-08-29)
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Dwg 008-047 (HH.5.00745): Propeller Shaft # 264 (1908-02-10)
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Dwg 058-048 (HH.5.04119): Strut for # 284, 285, 287 (1912-01-01)
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Dwg 062-074 (HH.5.04439): Rudder and Rudder Yoke for 284, 285, 287 (1912-01-04)
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Dwg 002-083 (HH.5.00099); General Arrangement > Owner's Launch for # 722, 25'-10" x 6'-1" (1913-09-29)
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Dwg 071-065 (HH.5.05167): Lifting Eye for # 302 (1916-07-03)
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Dwg 006-081 (HH.5.00581): Propeller for # 302 (3 Blades), 17" Dia. x 22" Pitch (1916-07-06)
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Dwg 002-091 (HH.5.00093): Construction Dwg > # 302 New Starboard Launch for Katoura 25'-10" x 6'-1" (1916-07-08)
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Dwg 071-066 (HH.5.05168): Color Pole Sockets to Fit Into Lifting Eye # 10879 (71-65) (1916-07-13)
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Dwg 002-092 (HH.5.00094): Construction Dwg > # 304 Starboard Launch for Katoura with Machinery Taken from # 302 [26'-0" x 6'-0"] (1916-08-24)
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.
Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"[1916-09-21] Thu 21: Launched and tried new launch for Katoura (#303) [sic, i.e. apparently #302p] and made just 25 miles in harbor course." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1916. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)
Images
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Further Image Information
Created by: Brightman, Thomas P.
Image Caption: #302 Katoura's Starboard Launch. 1916 Trials. [Katoura #722s at anchor in the background.]
Image Date: 1916
Collection: Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.
Image is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission
Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, www.herreshoff.org.
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Further Image Information
Created by: Brightman, Thomas P.
Image Caption: #302 Katoura's Starboard Launch. 1916 Trials. [Katoura #722s at anchor in the background.]
Image Date: 1916
Collection: Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.
Image is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission
Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, www.herreshoff.org.
Supplement
From the 1920 and earlier HMCo Index Cards at the MIT Museum
- 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.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Year: 1916
E/P/S: P
No.: 302
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.
Research Note(s)
"This launch was ordered after the burning of Katoura's old starboard launch on June 13, 1916 off the Indian Harbor Yacht Club (see New York Tribune of June 14, 1916, p. 2). Note that yet another new starboard launch for Katoura was ordered a few weeks later, on September 2, 1916, and built from a new model that had been expressively made for her, suggesting that this launch was never used on Katoura." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 9, 2009.)
"Weight without gasoline and equipment 2285lbs." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. [Note.] #302 Construction Plan 2-91 (HH.5.00093). July 18, 1916.)
Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.
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