HMCo #308p SP-2232 [Herreshoff #308]

"[1917-02-17] Sat 17: Very fine & [?] Fresh SW [wind] & go to NY for meeting [in] AM. Meet Bob Emmons on train. Stay at the NYYC. Have talk with Mr. Tod about building him a steamer [#308p SP-2232].
[1917-02-18] Sun 18: Fine. Have conference all the morning with Mr. Tod & Swazey & Emmons and later also with Mr. Swan. Mr. Tod verbally gave order for steam patrol boat [#308p SP-2232]. Home in afternoon on train.
[1917-02-19] Mon 19: ... Have order from Mr. Tod for steel st[eam] yacht [#308p SP-2232]." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1917. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Jan[uary] 1st 1917.
Deduct for plating [blank]. Plating to be joggled.
Frame spaces 18".
For stern see page 75.
For stem see page 76.
Sheer heights as revised Jan. 6th [1917] are to top of 2 1/8" bulb gunwhale angle, i.e.[?] for top of deck beams deduct 2 1/4". Fair out lines of cross sections to obtain new half-breadth measurements.
For changes on #308 see Page 78.
For changes on No. [blank] see pages 78 [for #308p] & c. and 97 [#323p] & c.
[On p. 47:] Oil tight bulkhead at aft end of engine space. From [frame] # 46 to # 50 will be oil fuel space.]
[On p. 51:] Oil tight bulkhead at aft end of fuel space. (Fuel space [frame] # 46 to # 50.]
[On p. 97:] No 323 [#323p]. To be same as #308 and #321, excepting the sheer line to be continuous and to the heights to top of gunwhale bulb angle to be to figures at top of pages, marked thus [sketch].
The machinery bulkheads will be in same position as in #306, #308 & c. but the position of end watertight bulkheads and also web frames will be changed, as will all internal accommodations and deck arrangements.
The line of plating seams are to be as in following pages.
Scantling are to be made a little heavier.
[On p. 104:] Offsets for Flush D[ec]k # 323." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Handwritten (in ink and pencil) notes in Offset Booklet HH.4.049.] January 1, 1917. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Dec[ember] 21, 1917
Trial of #308 (Sister ship to #306) on Rose Island course, 1 nautical mile, light N breeze [followed by tabulated trial run data with best speed being 20.58kn]
[With note:] Hot rod on starb[oard] engine.
[With note:] Had to slow down on account of hot crosshead.
This was the first time the boat had been away from the wharf and the starboard L[ow] P[ressure] crosshead burned out probably due to an oil pipe being stopped up. The damage required a new crosshead and guide rod." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. Handwritten note in Experiments Booklet '1911 Trial Trips and Experiments' under date of December 21, 1917. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"They built two steel twin screw patrol boats of about one hundred and ten feet length, and two smaller wood steamers for the same service, besides several gasoline patrol boats and torpedo retrieving craft, but as these craft were principally designed by Captain Nat's oldest son, A. Sidney DeW. Herreshoff, they are now only spoken of briefly." (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. 305.)

"Payne Whitney placed a rush order with the Herreshoff company yesterday for a twenty-three-knot submarine chaser to be built in accordance with naval specifications and turned over to the government upon completion. Similar action had already been taken by Robert E. Tod and Alfred I. du Pont. All three are members of the New York Yacht Club.
The boats are to be of steel, 110 feet long, steam driven and with oil-burning engines. The Herreshoff plant is backed by a syndicate of yachtsmen said to be headed by August Heckscher, and it is believed that record-breaking work will be done in fulfilling the three orders.
Boats of the size of the chasers ordered probably will be expected to maintain patrol in all weather, and certainly can keep the sea in any weather that a submarine might venture to the surface. ..." (Source: Anon. "Payne Whitney Orders U-Boat Chaser for U.S. Du Pont and Tod Also to Help Maintain Coast Patrol" New York Tribune, March 24, 1917, p. 2.)

"A new type of submarine chaser, the design of which has been approved by the Navy Department, will be seen in American waters within the next few weeks. Four of the boats have already been ordered by prominent New Yorkers. They are described as cruising submarine chasers, able to operate far off shore, and armed with a battery or two 3-inch guns. The boat is 110 feet long, and has a speed of 25 knots an hour. It uses oil fuel and steam propulsion.
The New Yorkers who have placed orders with the Herreshoff Company for boats with the stipulation that they will be built with all possible speed and delivered ready for action at the earliest possible moment, are Commodore Robert E. Tod of the New York Yacht Club [#308p SP-2232], Alfred I. du Pont [#306p SP-1841], Harold Vanderbilt [sic, i.e. J. P. Morgan #323p SP-2840], and Payne Whitney [#321p SP-2235].
Commodore Tod's boat will be delivered in July and the others in August. The owners have already informed the Government that the boats are being built for the service of the country, and as units of the patrol and submarine chasing fleet now being organized. Each boat will be manned by a crew of nineteen officers and men." (Source: Anon. "Yachtsmen Order Submarine Chasers. New Type of Boat, 110 Feet Long, Approved by the Navy Department." New York Times, April 1, 1917, p. 2.)

"Two of the four 120foot steel scout patrol boats building at Herreshoffs are completed. These are for former Commodore Robt. E. Tod [#308p SP-2232] and Alfred I. Du Pont [#306p SP-1841]. Those for Payne Whitney [#321p SP-2235] and George Nichols [sic, i.e. #308p SP-2232 for J. P. Morgan] are nearly completed. These vessels are fitted with Herreshoff steam engines and are to make 26 miles an hour." (Source: Anon. "Spokes from the Rudder Wheel." Rudder, December 1917, p. 776.)

"... Herreshoff 308 [Name of vessel], Patrol [Type], Feb. 23, 1918 [Date of first commissioning or purchase], 94,254.31 [Cost (hull and machinery)], 0,018.33 [Repairs, changes, and alterations to June 30, 1919.] ... " (Source: Anon. "Table 21. Ships On The Navy List June 30, 1919." Navy Yearbook, Washington 1921, p. 776.)

"UNCLASSIFIED.
Herreshoff No. 308 (2232) [Name and No.], Steam yacht [Type], 112 5 [Length Ft. in.], Steel [Material], Herreshoff Mfg. Co., Bristol, R.I., 1917 [Where and when built or purchased], Loaned to War Dept. for use of Panama-Canal [Status July 1, 1920]" (Source: U.S. Navy Department. Ships Data, U.S. Naval Vessels. Washington, 1920, p. 350.)

"Name of Passenger Launch Selected from Suggestions Made by Employees.
The steam launch S. P. 2232, transferred by the Navy Department to The Panama Canal, as reported in The Panama Canal Record of October 27, 1920, is to be named the Gold Star, in honor of those who lost their lives in the World War.
The name was chosen in public competition. Canal employees and others were invited, through the Star Herald of Panama, to offer suggestions for naming the vessel, and in the 3 days that the contest was open 255 names, of wide variety, were submitted. The name Gold Star was suggested by Mr. Louis F. Hauss of Cristobal." (Source: Isthmian Canal Commission. Panama Canal Record. Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, Volume 14 December 22, 1920, p. 264.)

"List of district craft, showing location and personnel attached, Mar. 15, 1922. ...
Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Va. ...
Patrol vessel, Herreshoff 308 [Craft], 13 [Complement, Enlisted men] ..." (Source: Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations. "Navy Department Appropriation Bill, 1923. House Of Representatives. Sixty-seventh Congress. Second Session." Washington, 1922, p. 383)

"... Unclassified.
The following list includes small craft formerly in naval districts now under load, as indicated, together with those which can not be classified under the standard nomenclature. ...
Herreshoff No. 308 (2232) [Name and No.], Steam yacht [Type.], 112 5 [Length], Steel [Material], Herreshoff Mfg. Co., 1917. [Where and when built or purchased.], Loaned to War Dept. for use of Panama Canal, and known as Gold Star. [Status July 1, 1920.] ..." (Source: U.S. Navy Department. Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels. Washington, D.C., July 1922, p. 323.)

"USS Herreshoff No. 308 (SP-2232), also written Herreshoff #308, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1923.
At the suggestion of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and future President of the United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), R. E. Tod of New York City, seeking a way to contribute to the U.S. war effort during World War I, contracted with the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, for one of a small group of 60-ton steel-hulled steam-powered boats built to a naval patrol boat design for private owners with the intention that they would be made available to the U.S. Navy in time of war. Tod's boat, with the builder's name Herreshoff No. 308, was completed in 1917.
On 21 February 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired Herreshoff No. 308 from Tod for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at Newport, Rhode Island, as USS Herreshoff No. 308 (SP-2232) on 23 February 1918.
After spending a short time at New London, Connecticut, fitting out with listening gear, Herreshoff No. 308 departed New London on 5 May 1918 in company with the patrol boats USS Herreshoff No. 306 (SP-1841) and USS Herreshoff No. 321 (SP-2235) bound for the Panama Canal Zone, stopping at Charleston, South Carolina; Key West, Florida; and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, en route. She arrived at Cristóbal in the Canal Zone on 1 June 1918. For the next two years she served on patrol duty in the Canal Zone at Cristóbal and Balboa.
Herreshoff No. 308 was loaned to the United States Department of War on 14 October 1920 for use by the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. The Canal Zone government used her as a patrol craft.
Returned to the Navy in September 1923, Herreshoff No. 308 was stricken from the Navy List on 12 September 1923. She was sold to J. A. Kenney of Brooklyn, New York, on 27 May 1924." (Source: Wikipedia Contributors. "USS Herreshoff No. 308 (SP-2232)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Herreshoff_No._308_(SP-2232), retrieved November 17, 2011.)

"[Item Description:] Penciled paper scrap titled 'Drawings to be Made' showing a list of drawing and pattern numbers. Undated, but mentioning both #306p SP-1841 and #308p SP-2232 which were built in 1917." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.097. Paper Scrap. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Administrative - Notes. No date (1917 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Penciled paper scrap 'Naval Experimental Station. New London. CT
306
308 [ are these references to #306p SP-1841 and #308p SP-2232 built in 1917?]
Ensign Van Clieve USN RF
Profile Inboard
Profile Outboard
Midship Section'. Undated, filed with other ca 1917 material." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.097. Paper Scrap. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Administrative - Notes. No date (1917 ???).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled technical drawing titled 'Oil pump for 9-14 & 22 1/2 x 12 Engine. Full size. 1 3/8 dia. x 1 3/8 stroke'. Compare with HMCo Plan HH.5.08394 (102-033) dated May 9, 1917 for Navy Steam Patrol Boats #306p, #308p, #321p and #323p of which this is a preliminary drawing." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Technical Drawing. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0283. WRDT04, Folder 27, formerly MRDE09. No date (1917-05-09 or earlier).)
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"[Item Description:] everything here appears to be going nicely, Sidney has made a good layout of the proposed steam machinery of the LADY MARY, I expect to put #308 [SP-1841] over the latter part of the week, and haul out #306 [SP-1841] to have the skeg put on, #312 [STINGER] will be ready to run the latter part of next week, the Aldrich boat [#309p SP-1218] left Saturday" (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50830. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1917-11-05.)
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"[Item Description:] I hope to have #306 [SP-1841] ready to run again early next week, she is now hauled out, one cylinder is rebored and the other partly done, #312 [STINGER] is in the water and nearly ready to leave, #308 [SP-1841] should be ready in about ten days, #303p NAVETTE's superheater, French gov't has asked us to bid on large patrol boat, Sid and Winslow are working out a design, Richards is ready to sign up if we give him 19kn speed [this will be #329p CAROLA], store house is half finished and cottage is now on Brownell's place" (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50840. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1917-11-19.)
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"[Item Description:] am working for U.S. Shipping Board, cutting Lake ships apart to get them through locks and ready for ocean service, was married, your jap was finally released by immigration authorities bill for legal services to be sent to me, anxious to hear how things are going in Bristol, have the steel boats [#306p, #308p, #309p, #321p, #312p?] been accepted by the Navy?" (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_18440. Correspondence, Folder 51, formerly 54. 1917-12-06.)
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"[Item Description:] Navy Dept. ordered ten aeroplane lighters [#191801es, #191802es, #191803es, #191804es, #191805es, #191806es, #191807es, #191808es, #191809es, #191810es], 58ft x 16ft, sort of a small floating dock arranged to carry an aeroplane, $15,000 each, built special construction shed [sketch], want six if possible by March 1, first class job for Brechin, will delay #323p [SP-2840] which is framed and being plated, #306p [SP-1841] and #308p [SP-2232] are finished and waiting for gov't action, Tod has paid for his boat [#308p SP-2232] in full, #321p [SP-2235] is almost done, one 40-fter [apparently #324p C365] has been delivered to Newport but ice is holding the other two [apparently #325p C366 and #326p C367] here and I had them picked up by shears and put on wharf, the last two [apparently #327p C368 and #328p C369] are nearly finished, they have proved expensive boats and we shall no more than make overhead on them, store house is done except cement work in vault, destroyer launch [#330p] is almost finished and is a fine little boat, hope we can build more like her, order for an aeroplane hull or pontoon [#341p NC-4], [Ernest] Alder has gone to Curtiss Works to observe and is now laying the boat down, work has commenced on Richards boat [#329p Carola], the RESOLUTE launch has been sent to Bob's [Emmons] ship the Mt. Vernon as tender" (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50930. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1918-01-08.)
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"[Item Description:] shed for seaplane barges is complete, machine shop consultant, 4 steel boats [apparently #306p SP-1841, #308p SP-2232, #309p SP-1218, #321p SP-2235] have been ordered taken away by gov't but can't move due to ice, shall launch #322p [SP-2373] on Monday and then set up Richards boat [#329p Carola], #323p SP-2840 is about all plated" (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50970. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1918-01-26.)
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"[Item Description:] #306p [SP-1841] and #308p [SP-2232] have been delivered and paid for, #306p had a very successful trial, #321p [SP-2235] about ready for trial, #322p [SP-2373] ready for trial, #323p SP-2840] plated and decked ..." (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50990. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1918-02-25.)
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"[Item Description:] [Seaplane] barges require 6 instead of 4 weeks building time, #306p [SP-1841] and #308p [SP-2232] away and paid, #322p [SP-2373] to be taken away in a day or so, #321p [SP-2235] having dock trials and hopefully to be turned over next week, #323p [SP-2840] has boilers in, hope to have her almost finished by contract time April 1st, other yards are raising wages and our men are uneasy, hope to have at least one [seaplane] barge in the water by time you are back, gov't wants six by that time, navy dept is probably going to order 42ft flying boat hulls [#346p, #347p, #348p, #349p, #350p, #351p, #352p, #353p, #354p, #355p H-16 / C-1 Seaplane Hulls]." (Source: Swan, James. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_51000. Subject Files, Folder [no #]. 1918-03-14.)
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"[Item Description:] thank you for your letter and Lord Fisher's Books which came to hand yesterday, I read over the chapter on oil and oil engines and it appears he is somewhat visionary on this object, I hardly think the oil engine at the present time is so overwhelmingly superior to the steam engine but she [?] has only been developing for a decade or two while the other is probably quite fully refined after over a century of development, as to efficiency (fuel required per unit of power developed), propbaly the oil engine is now approaching its limit and compares roughly as follows, ..., the Diesel engine at the present time is expensive in first cost, very heavy and requires renewal of some parts frequently, all these objections will without doubt be overcome in course of time, but are not the reserves of oil begin drawn upon too rapidly and will not coal last much longer and become comparatively much cheaper than oil for fuel in the near future?, the yacht [#377p ARA] we are building for Mr Winton is to have Winton Diesel Engines of about 900 horsepower and the weight of the engines complete will be about 70 tons, the 110ft submarine chasers [#306p, #308p, #321p, and #323p] we built in 1917-18 were fitted with our steam engines & boilers what developed between 1100 & 1200 hp, the entire vessels complete including all machinery and in running condition weighed but 70 tons, I see no reason why a well designed Diesel engine should not be lighter than the steam option, it is not many years ago the gasoline engines were as heavy as steam plants, now they have been developed to about 1/4 the weigth" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Iselin, C. Oliver. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRRT_440. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder MRRT. 1920-10-09.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§32: #308p SP-2232 [HERRESHOFF #308] Trial Run Data 'first trial' (1917-12-21)
§34: #308p SP-2232 [HERRESHOFF #308] Trial Run best speed 20.58kn (1917-12-21)." (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:] Penciled technical drawing of an unidentified subject. Untitled, undated. Annotations read 'Water tank 28in [unreadable] 30in dia. 5ft 8in high. 300 or 300 gal[lons]', 'flywheel 16in' and '5x3 Engine'. Filed with other plans, some of which related to #215p ROAMER< #299p HELIANTHUS II, and #308p HELIANTHUS III." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Technical Drawing. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE11_01170. Folder [no #]. No date.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled and ink on paper technical drawing of an unidentified subject. Untitled, undated. One annotations reads '14[?] for 1/2in pipe coupling'. Filed with other plans, some of which related to #215p ROAMER< #299p HELIANTHUS II, and #308p HELIANTHUS III." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Inked Technical Drawing. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE11_01190. Folder [no #]. No date.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #308p SP-2232 [Herreshoff #308] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Patrol Boat for R E Tod (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.

Name: No. 308
Type: Steam
Length: 112'
Owner: Tod, Robert E.

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

• Patrol Boat for R E Tod
• 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: No. 308
Type: 112' steam patrol boat
Owner: Robert E. Tod, given to U.S. Navy
Year: 1917
Row No.: 781

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: 1917
E/P/S: P
No.: 308
OA: 112' 7"
LW: 109' 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.

"L. Francis Herreshoff notes on his index cards that #308p became Black Watch. This is clearly incorrect as shown by the 1928 List of U.S. Merchant Vessels which states that Black Watch was the former SP-1841, i.e. #306p." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. Aprill 11, 2014.)

"Steam engine rating 600hp 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 Open Type. 9 & 14 & 22 1/2 x 12, 500[rpm], 600[hp]." (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.)

"Launched 1917-08-21 according to a dated and labeled photo in Agnes M. Herreshoff album, HMM No. 16175." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 31, 2012.)

"Built in 185 days (contract to launch)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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