HMCo #394p [Power Tender for #391p Katoura]
Particulars
Name: [Power Tender for #391p Katoura]Type: Power Tender
Contract: 1932-1-5
Construction: Wood
LOA: 14' (4.27m)
Beam: 4' 9" (1.45m)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Van Blerck Midshipman; [2 3/4in x 2 1/2in]
Propeller: Diameter 11", Pitch 10", 2 Blades, R.H.
Built for: Loomis, Alfred F.
Amount: $2,150.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Alfred F. Loomis
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.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.063
Offset booklet contents:
#394 [14' motor launch].
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Drawings
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Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #394p [Power Tender for #391p Katoura] are listed in bold.
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Dwg 132-000 (HH.5.10726): General Arrangement > Proposed 14'-0" x 4'-9" Power Tender for Yacht "Katoura" (1931-10 ?)
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Dwg 114-144 (HH.5.09644): Launch Davits Arrangement Katoura (1931-11-25)
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Dwg 002-115 (HH.5.00119): Construction Dwg > Tender - IC, 14' O.A., 4'-9" [B], Gasoline (1932-02-09)
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Documents
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"Announcement was made Friday by Mr C. W. Haffenreffer, vice president of the Herreshoff Mfg. Co., that beginning yesterday, operations at that plant would be resumed on a full week's schedule of 5 1/2 days. The increase in working hours will effect 50 employees who for the past three months have been working on a four-day a week schedule. Mr. Haffenreffer stated that the hiring of additional help will depend on future orders.
At present there are ten 23-footers [apparently #1212s Tronda, #1213s Fairway, #1214s Katy-did, #1215s Gamecock, #1216s Mariette, #1217s Padick, #1218s Ariel, #1219s Norn, #1222s Tigress, and #1223s Buza] of one design being built at the local plant and a gasoline speed boat [#394p] which is to be used as a tender for the yacht Katoura, is being built for Alfred Loomis of New York City. ..." (Source: Anon. "Herreshoffs Now Working On Full Week Schedule." Bristol Phoenix, February 23, 1932, p. 1.)
"... In the small boat shed along with several Frostbite Dinghies [#1221s Tender for #1226s Yawlcat and #1220s Kid-Pleurisy], half a dozen Buzzard's Bay 12 1/2 Footers [of the #1197 class], two S boats [#1130s Aeolus and #1180s Penguin] and the last three of the dozen new Herreshoff 23 foot Class boats [probably #1223s Buza, #1224s Altair and the centerboard FI-23 #1225s Crusader] is a new all-teak Starboard launch-tender [#394p] for Mr. Alfred Loomis' 95 power yacht 'Katoura' [#391p] which is being commissioned for Summer service. ..." (Source: Anon. "Herreshoff Shops Hum with Boating Season Activities." Bristol Phoenix, May 17, 1932, p. 1.)
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.
Research Note(s)
"Construction Record shows a Gray V Drive engine while construction plan 002-115 shows a Van Blerck Midshipman 4 cyl. engine." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 30, 2020.)
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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