HMCo #366p [Navy Airplane Rescue Boat]
Particulars
Name: [Navy Airplane Rescue Boat]Type: Navy Airplane Rescue Boat
Designed by: U.S. Navy
Finished: 1918 ?
LOA: 40' 2" (12.24m)
LWL: 40' 0" (12.19m)
Beam: 8' 0" (2.44m)
Draft: 1' 6.5" (0.47m)
Built for: U.S. Navy
Amount: $6,900.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Navy Plans. NC-4
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.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.047
Offset booklet contents:
#304p, #366p [starboard launch for Katoura, Navy Airplane Rescue Boat (note only)]
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
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 #366p [Navy Airplane Rescue Boat] 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 081-126 (HH.5.06218): Mizzen Mast Boom and Fittings on U.S.S. John L. Lawrence (1917-08-06)
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Dwg 005-195 (HH.5.00409): General Arrangement > 40 ft. Airplane Rescue Boat for U.S. Navy. Outboard Profile & Deck Plan (1918-05-16)
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Dwg 070-069 (HH.5.05068): 40 Foot Airplane Rescue Boat for U.S. Navy - Details of Bow Chock (1918-05-16)
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Dwg 142-085 (HH.5.11832): 40 Foot Airplane Rescue Boat for U.S. Navy Construction Sections (1918-05-16)
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Dwg 142-000 (HH.5.11832.1): Proposed Knee at Chine of 40' Rescue Boat (1918-09-18)
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Dwg 000-000 [025-000] (HH.5.01996): Castings for # 366 (ca. 1918-10)
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Dwg 062-094 (HH.5.04459): Rudder and Steering Quadrant (1918-10-01)
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Dwg 011-068 (HH.5.00995): Stuffing Box, Struts and Shaft (1918-10-18)
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Dwg 002-096 (N/A): 40 ft. Airplane Rescue Boat for U.S. Navy Construction Plan (1918-12-05 ?)
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Dwg 002-096 A (N/A): Lines of 40 ft. Airplane Rescue Boat for U.S. Navy (1918-12-05 ?)
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
"June 15, 1918.
Lines of Proposed 40ft Aeroplane Rescue Boat at scale of 1" = 1', sent to Mr. Nichols to take to Washington af[?] have a model made from.
Frame spaces 12" with one more frame added. Breadths and heights increased 3/2.
Estimated displacement 10000[lbs]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.047.] June 15, 1918. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
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 1930s L. Francis Herreshoff Index Cards at the Herreshoff Marine Museum
- 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.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Year: 1918c
E/P/S: P
No.: 366
Name: Navy Boat
OA: 40' 2"
LW: 40' 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.
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