HMCo #541s Effort

"[1900-06-14] Thu 14: Muggy with fog. Rain. SSW [wind]. Began setting up #541, 32 footer [Effort].
[1900-06-18] Mon 18: Very fine. NE [wind], fresh & clear. ... Began planking #541 [Effort]. ...
[1900-06-30] Sat 30: Very strong WNW [wind] all day. ... Turned over #541, 32 footer [Effort]. ...
[1900-07-12] Thu 12: H[eav]y fog & muggy. Fresh S [wind]. Launched #541 Effort in morning & rigged [her]. ...
[1900-07-13] Fri 13: Very fine [with] SW [wind]. ... Delivered #541 Effort.
[1900-10-21] Sun 21: Very fine [with] strong SW [wind] & mild. Storehouse at marine railway, cove lot, was burnt up last night, also burning stock & boats had injury. Effort [#541s] & Sirocco. [The identity of Sirocco is not clear. She was reported to be a 30-footer in a contemporary newspaper report about the fire.] ...
[1900-12-05] Wed 5: Very h[eav]y W [wind] last night. Barom[eter] reaching to 28.90 a little after midnight. Hauled Effort [#541s] into n[orth] shop in evening.
[1901-01-04] Fri 4: Very fine & cool. ... Launched [#539s] Altair, [#541s] Effort & [#494s] Sintram from n[orth] shop after repairing, and hauled out 2 last at cove." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1900 to 1901. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"No. 538 [#538s Countess] & 541 [#541s Effort].
M[ar]ch 1900.
Keel 36ft Class.
In making mould in all cross sections use scale 14/12 of figures given.
In fore & aft measurements use scale 16/15 = 12.8/12.
Frame spaces 11 1/2" by long rule = 12 by common rule.
Sheer height is to under side of deck (deck 1 1/8").
Allow in making moulds:
for planking 1 1/8".
for timbers 1 3/8".
[Sum] 2 1/2".
Make moulds for saving lavin[?] numbers only (except # 22 & 40 (24 & 38)? make every mould)?" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.123.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., May 5 [1900]. --- ... The first of the 35-footers [#538s Countess, the second one being #541s Effort] was set up in the shops Friday [May 4, 1900]. These boats are to be built bottom side up until planked, when they will be-turned right side up for finishing. ..." (Source: Anon. "Mineola Ready for Trial." Boston Globe, May 6, 1900, p. 29.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., May 19 [1900]. --- ... The new 35-footer [apparently #538s Countess, the second one being #541s Effort] which is being built bottom up in the shops is about half planked. ..." (Source: Anon. "Rainbow Ready for Trial." Boston Globe, May 20, 1900, p. 25.)

"BRISTOL, R I, June 2 [1900] --- There has not been a great deal of activity in new boats here during the past week. ... In the north shop the men are at work on a mold for the lead keel which is to be run for the first of the 35-foot sloops [apparently #538s Countess, the second one being #541s Effort]. The hull of this sloop is well along, and will be fastened to the lead keel when the latter is run and smoothed up." (Source: Anon. "Rainbow And Virginia. Herreshoff 70-Footers About Ready for Trials at Bristol." Boston Globe, June 3, 1900, p. 26.)

"Effort, sloop yacht, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, RI, by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., 1900.
11.94 gross tons, 9.92 net tons; 41 ft. x 11.1 ft. x 8.3 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, overhanging head, overhanging stern.
Surveyed and measured, June 31, 1900.
Master: N. G. Herreshoff." (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Effort.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 70:]
Effort, sloop yacht, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1900.
9.92 tons; 41 ft. x 11.1 ft. x 8.3 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No specifications shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) July 6, 1900. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff.
Surrendered [license] Apr. 19, 1901 at New York. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence])." (Source: Survey of Federal Archives, Work Projects Administration. Ships Documents of Rhode Island. Bristol. Ship Registers and Enrollments of the Port of Bristol - Warren Rhode Island, 1941, s.v. Effort.)

"Shelter Island, July 14 [1900]. --- The Herreshoffs came here from Newport this morning, and during the afternoon sailed around Shelter inland, a distance of twenty-five miles. Mr. and Mrs. F. M Smith of Oakland, Cal., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herreshoff on board the Herreshoff steam yacht Augusta [#155p Augusta III]. In all, the Augusta covered about two hundred miles during the day. Mr Herreshoff brought with him the new Smith Yacht, Trophy [sic, i.e. Effort I]. She was launched at 7:00 A.M. at Bristol, R.I. on Thursday [July 12, 1900]. The Trophy belongs to the 36-foot racing class, Long Island Yacht Racing Association. She is a mahogany boat and built very much on the lines of the Columbia [#499s]." (Source: Anon. Herreshoff Takes the Yacht Trophy to Shelter Island. The New York Sun, July 15, 1900, p. 8.)

"... The new 35-footer built for F. M Smith of New York by the Herreshoffs has arrived at Greenport to be put in racing trim. She has been christened the Effort and is in charge of Capt Carter. She is exactly like the Countess [#538s], which she will race with the sloop O'Shima Shan during the Larchmont race week. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Globe, July 22, 1900, p. 26.)

"... CITY ISLAND, July 25 [1900]. --- F. M. Smith's new Herreshoff keel sloop yacht Effort [541s], while participating in the Larchmont Yacht Club races to-day against Oswald Sanderson's sloop Countess [#538s], carried away her mast and was towed to this harbor by Mr. Smith's steam yacht Trophy. A new stick will be constructed and stepped at the Woods yard. ..." (Source: Anon. "City Island Yacht News." New York Times, July 26, 1900, p. 5.)

"... The development of practical interest in the larger classes of racing sloops and cutters has been unprecedented in previous years, and the most closely observed boats of the season have been the four one-design [New York] 'seventies' which Herreshoff built to measure within the newly created eighty-foot racing length class. ... Undoubtedly the fastest yachts ever built, their unseaworthiness has sounded the imperative note of warning against further advance in the way of light construction that designers have been fearing to hear in the last half dozen years. The same fault of unseaworthiness due to excessive lightness in construction has marked the two fifty-one footers Altair [#539s] and Shark [#531s], and in a lesser degree the thirty-sixes Countess [#538s] and Effort [#541s], which were launched from the Herreshoff yards this year. When the danger-mark, toward which designers have been hastening of late, has thus been reached by the foremost member of their profession, it is only natural to look for a reaction toward more safely constructed racing craft, and the season of 1900 may mark the beginning of an era in the sport wherein even the mere racing machines will obtain speed by some trick of design other than the sacrifice of rational substantiality. Necessity is the clearly proved mother of invention, and when the ingenious brains of designers forsake the absorbing search for speed by means of the minimum weight in construction they may draw nearer the lines of least resistance in the model of sailing craft. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notable Yachting Season. Development of the Larger Racing Classes Unprecedented. Herreshoff Reaches Limit. Unseaworthiness of Seventies Warns Against Further Sacrifice of Substantial Construction to Speed." New York Times, September 9, 1900, p. 22.)

"It is now learned that an addition must be made to the long list of partly wrecked racers. Early in the year the new yacht Countess [#538s], designed and built by the Herreshoffs for Oswald Sanderson, of the Larchmont Y. C., struck a sunken rock, but, as she soon afterward continued racing, it was thought the damage had been slight. Yesterday, however, an expert in yacht construction said that the effects of her wrenching still existed, and could not be put right without a large expense. Effort [#541s], a sister ship to Countess, produced at the same yards for F. M. Smith, did not, like Syce and Countess, try to measure strength with rocks, but she is reported to be almost a wreck as a result of her short summer's sailing. The boat is recorded as having entered five races, and though it is not known whether or not she was unduly crowded with canvas, it appears that she did not stand the strain. She is now hauled up at Bristol. Another new yacht that must be repaired is the 45-footer Shark [#531s], which the owner, F. Lathrop Ames, had to leave in Bristol because he could not get a crew to sail her back around the Cape to Boston." (Source: Anon. [No title.] Forest and Stream, October 13, 1900, p. 294.)

"On Oct. 21, a a fire broke out at the Herreshoff Works, Bristol, and a storehouse, with its contents of yacht gear, lumber, etc, was destroyed. The 36-footer Effort [#541s] and the 30-footer Sirocco [a thirty-foot keel craft owned by Charles D. Owen of Providence] were badly injured, and two catboats were destroyed." (Source: Anon. "Yachting News Notes." Forest and Stream, November 3, 1900, p. 357.)

"Nothing has been done to the sloops at Walker's Cove that were badly burned in a fire two weeks ago. The whole forebody of the 35-footer Effort [#541s] is blackened and charred. The sloop Sirocco [a thirty-foot keel craft owned by Charles D. Owen of Providence], lying beside her, is in still worse shape, as her deck and top of cabin trunk have been badly eaten by the flames. Another boat in the same yard, Evelyn [built by Geo. H. Saunders], a yawl owned by Perkins Bros., is burned to the timbers in places. She is offered for sale. Both J. B. and Nat Herreshoff evidently think that a firebug is at work, as, since the fire at Walker's Cove, two watchmen or policemen have been engaged to examine their premises and their residences at intervals during the night to see that no mischief is being wrought." (Source: Anon. "Yachting News Notes." Forest and Stream, November 17, 1900, p. 397.)

"In accordance with permission of the Commissioner of Navigation, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. the name of sloop yacht Effort has been changed to Leda." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. "Notice." Bristol Phoenix, March 15, 1901, p. 2.)

"A quiet launching took place at Herreshoff's north shop Saturday [April 23, 1901] morning, when the new forty-footer sloop yacht Effort [#552s], built for C. F. Smith of New York, was put overboard. The Effort is about sixty feet in length over all and is similar in model to the Effort [#541s] launched last year for Mr. Smith, which was burned in the fire at the Walker's Cove yard last October and afterwards rebuilt by Herreshoff.
Mr. Smith sold his last year's boat to Herreshoff, who changed her name to Leda. The Effort has outside lead ballast which forms part of the fin type of keel and her planking is mahogany. She is a very handsome yacht. After she was launched, the Effort was towed to Walker's Cove." (Source: Anon. "The New Effort Launched." Bristol Phoenix, April 23, 1901, p. 1.)

"LONG ISLAND SOUND CHAMPIONS. ... The 36-foot sloop class championship [of 1901] was won by Leda, formerly Effort, a Herreshoff boat which came out in the season of 1900. Leda was cleverly sailed throughout the season by her owner, Mr. H. L. Maxwell. Her dimensions are as follows: length over all 52 feet; water 32 feet; beam 11.3 feet; draught 8 feet." (Source: Rudder, May 1902, p. 249.)

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"[Item Transcription:] Typewritten (carbon copy) table with penciled additions listing boats built 1899/1900 with columns labeled 'Design [in pencil]', 'Shop. No.', 'Length', 'Planking', 'Delivery', 'Owner' followed by penciled data for Boat Name and Actual Delivery Date. Relevant contents:
#541s [Design] M[ar]ch [1900] [Length:] 36ft class [Planking:] Mahog[an]y [Delivery:] July 2 [1900] [Owner:] F. M. Smith by C.B. Zabriskie (EFFORT)." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.. (creator) and Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDW02_01290. Folder [no #]. No date (1900-02).)
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"[Item Description:] Mimeographed specifications titled 'Specifications for 36 feet class, Y.R.A., of L.I. Sound, attached to Contract with F.M. Smith, contract dated Feb[ruary] 8, 1900. #541 [EFFORT]'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.. (creator). Specifications. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDW02_01130. Folder [no #]. 1900-02-08.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Since writing you last I have received a letter from Mr. A. Cary Smith, a copy of which, I enclose to you herewith.
I have also had a talk with Mr. Gardner and he has acquiesced in the recommendation of M.Q.B.L. for L with LWL eliminated from the rule.
I have prepared a measurement rule in harmony as far as possible with your own views and the views of Mr. Smith and Mr. Gardner and enclose to you herewith a copy of the same.
The classification suggested, reduces the number of the present classes and seems to me to fit the measurements as far as practicable of the present racing boats.
I have appended a few examples giving the approximate ratings of the racing boats which though not strictly accurate are near enough for our purposes.
I would esteem it a very great favor if you would furnish me the exact measurements under the rule, of the MINEOLA [#529s], HUMMA [#553s] OR ALTAIR [#539s], EFFORT [#552s], LEDA [#541s] or COUNTESS [#538s].
The measurement of sail as you know by the present system reduces the ratings of all the boats to lower figures than if the sail were measured by the English method, and as I desire to make up a correct table under the rule suggested I would like to have the accurate measurement of these boats under the suggested rule as figured by you.
I would also like to know if the suggested rule comes near enough to your ideas to be recommended by you for adoption.
I regret the necessity of troubling you further in this matter but I am very anxious that whatever is recommended by our Committee shall go before the Club with your approval. [Incl NGH draft reply:] I have yours of 16th inst and am glad to know that you as well as Mr Smith and Mr Gardner have looked into the 'MQBL' again and approve of it as I recommended it.
As to the matter of measuring sails, I cannot agree with Mr Smith, that it cannot be improved upon. I certainly think it can be and be improved, but the bad results of the present method are not so important as other things under consideration are. Yawls are very unfairly measured under the present method. In the English method they are correctly measured and in the English method there is no occasion to monkey with throat or peak halyard blocks to give all possible sail spread for the measurement. They (the Englishman) can put in as long or short mast head as they please and have all the drift they want on the throat halyards, or as much doubling to the masts as is necessary to hold them, without affecting the measurement of the sails. There is one thing, however, I think your committee should do if they do not think it wise to change the present method of measuring sails, and that is to add the excess of area of club topsails over the maximum size of the working topsail and not rule club topsails out when racing.
In using 5. as a constant in the formula (L*sq-rt(S)) / (5*cube-rt(D)), the resulting racing length is larger than we are accustomed to, and I would suggest using instead 5.5 for the present measurement, or 5.5 (possibly 6) for the Y.R.A. measurement or the NYYC with clubtopsail added as an illustration I present the following calculations for some of our one-stickers: [Table with data for DEFENDER [#452s], COLUMBIA [#499s], MINEOLA [#529s], (NEOLA), ALTAIR [#539s], WASP [#414s], GLORIANA [#411s], EFFORT [#552s], COUNTESS [#538s], Newport 30s, Buzzards Bay 30s follows.]
In closing I hope your committee will not overlook the importance of changing the time allowance tables to the full theoretical amount as I have already suggested. You[?] it is very important that the present idea that the largest boat in the class is the best one should be exploded." (Source: Lawton, N.D. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_71670. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F07, formerly MRDE15. 1902-09-16.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Typewritten signed letter on 'Manhasset Yacht Club' stationery:] ] A meeting of Yacht Racing Assn. of Long Island Sound [YRALIS] will be held on Monday, Feby. 8th., when it is intended to propose for adoption, the New York Yacht club measurement rule, amended by using the Atlantic Y.C. length and 5.5 as the factor.
In order to carry the rule through, it is essential that we should have the length under the rule of some of the smaller boats and thus demonstrate how it works out. I therefore beg to ask if you will not furnish me with the racing measurement of the following boats under the rule, also any others that you may consider will be helpful.
ALERT [#581s ex-BOGEY].
ALERION [#446s].
LEDA [#541s ex-EFFORT].
SANDPIPER [#540s]. (18 [corrected by NGH to 15] foot)[?]
I send you herewith, copy of the A.Y.C. [Atlantic Yacht Club] rule and will be grateful for your assistance in this matter. [Incl. NGH penciled figures for ALERT (30.5), ALERION (28.7), LEDA (35.7) and SANDPIPER (16.9).]." (Source: MacLellan, Edw. M. (Secr. Manhasset YC). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_69670. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F03, formerly MRDE15. 1904-02-05.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled calculations and diagram originally titled but then crossed out 'Running Rigging. No 538 & 541 [#538s COUNTESS and #541s EFFORT]. With note 'July 10, 1905. 16 x 25 x 16in @ 250 R[evolutions] and 200lbs Boiler press[ure] to represent full load. Cutoff about 1/2 stroke' and diagram and numerous calculations. On verso another diagram, some steam engine sketches and calculations and a note '16 & 25 x 16 at 240 rev, 100lbs boiler [pressure] & non condensing[?]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. (creator). Penciled Calculations. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_02560. Folder [no #]. 1905-07-10.)
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"[Item Description:] Four handwritten (in ink) pages with tabulated data listing 'Shop No', 'Name', '[Tons] Gross' and '[Tons] Net' for a total of 100 HMCo-built boats and classes. Tonnage data is usually precise to two digits behind the decimal. Random comparisons suggest source of tonnage data to be official Custom House data. Boats mentioned are: #664s, #663s, #625s, #665s, #634s, #658s, #657s, #646s, #641s, #617s, #626s Class, #624s, #621s, #616s, #619s, #590s, #591s, #586s, #592 Class, #618s, #605s, #578s, #560s Class, #580s, #553s, #551s, #552s, #546s, #541s, #545s, #538s, #534s, #533s, #532s, #529s, #534s, #530s, #531s, #435s, #437s, #452s, #499s, #429s, #426s, #424s, #481s, #422s, #417s, #414s, #451s, #215p, #213p, #222p, #235p, #230p, #229p, #236p, #224p, #244p, #247p, #249p, #231p, #232p, #228p, #252p, #250p, #251p, #248p, #168p, #164p, #118p, #142p, #174p, #173p, #194p, #189p, #193p, #183p, #178p, #179p, #181p, #182p, #175p, #163p, #148p, #149p, #172p, #155p, #170p, #186p, #188p, #206p, #207p, #205p, #208p, #209p, #210p, #211p, #212p, #216p. Undated (the latest boat listed, WINSOME, was launched in 1907)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Handwritten List. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00220. Folder [no #]. No date (1907 or later).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH titled 'Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Orders from N.G. Herreshoff'. Relevant contents:
§2: Work Order [When wanted] Before April 1st. Mast hoops for #529s, #532s, #533s, #534s, #531s, #532s, #530s, #538s, #541s, #536s, #486s, #502s, #585s, #540s (1900-02-19)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Order Book. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_03460. Folder [no #]. 1900-02 to 1909-10.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #541s Effort even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "Specifications for 36 feet class, Y.R.A., of L.I. Sound, attached to Contract with F.M. Smith, contract dated Feb. 8, 1900. #541 [Effort]." No place [Bristol], February 8, 1900. (351 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. Vessel specifications for #541s Effort.

• Effort (HMCo-made index card)
• Leda ex-Effort (HMCo-made index card)
• Leda ex-Effort (MIT Museum-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: Effort
Length: 32'
Owner: Smith, F. M.

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

• Effort
• Leda ex-Effort
• 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: Effort
Type: 31' 6" sloop
Owner: F. M. Smith
Year: 1900
Row No.: 185

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.

Month: Feb
Day: 14
Year: 1900
E/P/S: S
No.: 0541
Name: Effort
LW: 32'
B: 10' 10"
D: 8
Rig: Cutter
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 5500.00
Notes Constr. Record: as 538. 36 ft Class Name changed to "Leola" [sic, i.e. Leda. Rudder August 1901, p. 330 reports Effort to have been renamed Leda, not Leola]
Last Name: Smith
First Name: F. M.

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.

"Built in 148 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $37/day, 173 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"[Sail area info.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule Formula." Bristol, R.I., July 13, 1907 with later additions. Original handwritten (in ink) document with penciled additions. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00080.)

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