HMCo #552s Effort II

"[1901-02-27] Wed 27: Strong WNW [wind] & cold. Began to set up #552 [Effort II] for 43 ft class.
[1901-03-21] Thu 21: Heavy SE gale set in early [in] AM. Rain all day. Turned over #552. Effort II.
[1901-03-22] Fri 22: Fair with SW to W [wind]. ... Cast lead keel for Effort II [#552s].
[1901-04-18] Thu 18: Overcast [with] l[igh]t NE [wind]. ... Moved #552, Effort II, to w[est] end of shop ...
[1901-04-20] Sat 20: NE [wind &] l[igh]t rain in PM. Launched #552, Effort 2nd. ...
[1901-05-14] Tue 14: Fine [with] fresh SSW [wind]. Trial of Effort [#552s]. ...
[1901-05-16] Thu 16: Very fine & warm. L[igh]t N [wind] early, [then] mod[erate] SSW [wind] in PM. ... Off in Effort [#552s] for trial and decided to make a new mast. ...
[1901-05-24] Fri 24: Calm & warm last night. Very fine with fresh S breeze till 5PM, then squall from N & much colder. T[hunder] & L[ightning] in [the] evening. Effort [#552s] left in forenoon." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1901. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"No. 552.
Use moulds of #538 & 541 [#538s Countess & #541s Effort] with changes in keel & rudder between frames # 19 & 41 with addition to bottom of lead, as from[?] [remainder of sentence in pencil] 7 1/2" added to bottom of pattern & ends cut off to suit.
In applying length measurement use scale 14 3/8" long fo a foot very nearly.
Frame spaces = 11 1/4" by long rule = 13 1/2" by common rule.
Top lead same as before." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Note in ink and pencil in Offset Booklet HH.4.123.] Undated, ca. December 1900. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"In 1901, beside[s] CONSTITUTION, [there] were built HUMMA, forty-five feet, EFFORT, thirty-seven feet, and nearly a dozen smaller sailing craft." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Some of the Boats I Have Sailed In." Written 1934. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 68.)

"Effort, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, RI, by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., 1901.
10.04 tons; 46.2 ft. x 11.1 ft. x 6.5 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, overhanging head, overhanging stern.
Surveyed and measured, April 11, 1901. [With note: Official Number 136874.]" (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Effort.)

"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.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 71:]
Effort, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1901.
10.04 tons; 46.2 ft. x 11.1 ft. x 6.5 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No specifications shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) May 13, 1901. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff.
Surrendered [license] June 14, 1901 at Greenport. ([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.)

"Mr. Smith's new 43-footer Effort II., built this year by the Herreshoffs, has been rigged and is now ready for her trial trip. Her sails will be bent at once. She is a good looking boat, with considerable overhang, both fore and aft. Her topsides are of mahogany, which give her rather a handsome appearance, but the whole effect is spoiled by a light oak cabin house." (Source: Anon. "Yachting News Notes." Forest and Stream, May 25, 1901, p. 416.)

"The mahogany 51-footer Effort has had her mast removed at the Herreshoff yards since her first trial by 'Nat' Herreshoff last week, and the hull is now at anchor. At present she is the only craft of her size that has the double spreaders of the plan used on the Constitution. She has a huge spread of canvas, and in her first trial showed that with her great speed and low freeboard she would be a wet boat, but a flyer. She will be raced in New-York waters by her owner, F. N. Smith." (Source: Anon. "Craft And Those Who Sail Them." New York Tribune, May 26, 1901, p. 9.)

"In the basin alongside of the south pier [at the Herreshoff yard] was the new 43-footer Effort II, built for Mr. Smith of Shelter Island, who will race her against Hebe, Mira and the two new Gardner boats building for the class. She is a mahogany boat, finished bright, and looks very much like Effort [#541s] and Countess [#538s] of last year." (Source: Anon. "Work in the Yards." Rudder, June 1901, p. 272.)

"Dorwina and Effort. ... Effort was designed and built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. at Bristol, R. I. She is planked with mahogany and has an oak cabin house. The rig and spars on Effort were in bad shape during the early part of the season, and underwent many changes before they were finally made satisfactory. The boat was practically open from stem to stern, there being no partitions or bulkheads, and she was kept constantly stripped during the season. She is 59ft over all, 36ft. on the waterline, 11ft. beam and 8ft. 7in. draft. She is owned by Mr. F. M. Smith." (Source: Forest & Stream, November 9, 1901, p. 373.)

"No. 2646 --- For Sale --- Cruising and racing sloop, Class M; dimensions 58 ft. on deck, 37 ft. w. l., 11 ft. beam, 9 ft. draught; built by the Herreshoffs; double-planked mahogany construction; all lead outside ballast; low narrow trunk cabin.; four comfortable berths; full headroom; new Herreshoff and Ratsey sails and rigging. A well-known boat, winner of many prizes; condition good as new; price low. Frank Bowne Jones, Yacht Agent, 29 Broadway, New York City. [#552s Effort II was the only Herreshoff-built mahogany vessel with these dimensions and can thus be clearly identified.]" (Source: Anon. "For Sale." Rudder, March 1910, p. 269.)

"... one day at the end of August [1917] ... I found my way to Ulmer Park Basin on Gravesend Bay in answer to an advertisement of an auction sale of yachts. This basin ... has just been taken over by the Government, presumably as a station for the smaller craft of the coast defense fleet, and all yachts were ordered out by September 1st. ...
The buying of seaworthy and still serviceable yachts for the removing of their lead keels has developed into an established business within the past dozen years... Well underway before the outbreak of the war, this unwholesome development of yachting has grown rapidly with the great increase in the price of metals, lead, copper and brass, and as conditions are at the present time there is no saying where it will end. The leader in the business is C. D. Vail, of Wreck Lead, Pong Island, who has owned more yachts than any other man in the history of the sport.
As soon as a yacht is purchased by Mr. Vail, her sails, spars, rigging, ground tackle, and usually the plumbing as well, are removed, with cushions, bedding and such other fittings as may be included in the inventory. These are disposed of as occasion serves and the hull is towed to a convenient yard, where it is hauled out, the keel is cut with an acetylene torch into pieces of manageable size, the keel bolts backed out, and the holes in the wood keel plugged, after which operations the hull is launched and tied up ready for sale. A few years ago much of this work was done at the old yard of the Marine Construction and Dry Dock Company, at Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, but at the present time most of it is done at the Ulmer Park Basin. As Mr. Vail has a contract with the Government for furnishing many tons of lead, the supply of the bare hulls greatly exceeds the very limited demand, the modern type of racing yacht being of very little use for conversion to fishing or other practical purposes. It was planned to sell a number of hulls at auction, but the taking over of the Basin made this necessary on very short notice, and as the sale was inadequately advertised the attendance was limited largely to a small assemblage of fishermen and a few yacht skippers and others attracted out of curiosity. ...
Gamecock [#583s], 46 feet 6 inches over all, one of the Herreshoff Buzzards Bay Class of fifteen yachts built in 1902, was started at $100 and knocked down for $150. Eleanora, formerly Effort I [#552s], another Herreshoff boat, 58 feet over all, built in 1901, found no bidders, but toward the end of the sale she was put up again and withdrawn after one bid of $100. ... One of the old Herreshoff fin-keel thirties, offered under the name of Iowa, brought no bids, and the same fate befell ... the Herreshoff Joker [#595s], of the 31-foot Bar Harbor Class, built in 1903. ... On the whole it was a melancholy proceeding, conducing to serious meditation on the future of yachting under canvas." (Source: Stephens. W. P. "A Bargain Sale of Yachts." Rudder, October 1917, p. 658-659.

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"[Item Description:] Penciled preliminary construction plan with inboard profile, plan view and scantlings titled 'No 552 [#552s EFFORT II]. Scale 1/2in. Feb 2 1901' and note 'Change from spaces to 13 1/2 from 13 1/4 & and move mast to letren[?] # 19 < 20'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Construction Plan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE02_07100. Folder [no #]. 1901-02-02.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Replying to your favor of the 31st ult and your inquiries, I would state that to the best of my recollection the EFFORT [#552s] had considerably the best of the luck in the first round of the triangle and the ALTAIR [#539s] and HUMMA [#553s] the worst and that the ALTAIR was in no shape to show her best speed.
The measurements of your boats in the table by the new rule were taken by me from the figures furnished by you to the measurement committee in one of your letters and the rating given for EFFORT in the same was 50ft.
The measurements of the Schooners were furnished by Mr. [A. Cary] Smith from his drawings but it seems to me that these boats must measure up higher than these figures upon actual measurement although their big displacements for length reduce their ratings considerably.
The light wind at the start was favorable to the smaller boats and although it freshened up after the first round of the triangle had been sailed it was not at any time stronger than a good whole sail breeze.
Had the wind been strong from the start, I am quite certain that the YANKEE [#534s] would by the corrected time under the new rule have won and the others been placed with but one or two exceptions in the order of measurement with but little time between the winner and the last boat in the table.
I think that in order to fully appreciate how well the new rule works out, it is necessary to take into account the exact conditions which prevailed and the advantages which some of the boats obtained over the others and that with these things taken into consideration, the rule seems to me I thank you for your very interesting letter which I will show to the other members of our committee.
Wishing you a very prosperous and successful new year and trusting that your health may be maintained to accomplish satisfactorily the very great work you have in hand for the defense of the America Cup, ..." (Source: Lawton, N.D. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_72060. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F07, formerly MRDE15. 1902-01-02.)
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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:] [Four-page typed letter on HMCo stationery:] I have yours of the 16th, and am glad to know that you as well as Mr. Smith and Mr. Gardiner[sic, i.e. Gardner], have looked into the M. Q. B. L. again and approve of it as I recommend it.
As to the method of measuring sails I cannot agree with Mr. Smith that it cannot be improved upon. I certainly think it can be and should 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 the throat and peak halyard blocks to get 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 topsails 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 5.75 (possibly 6) for Y.R.A. measurement or the N.Y.Y.C. with club topsail added. As an illustration I present the following calculations from 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.]
It would be a mistake to limit sail area to 5% excess of racing length instead of by M.Q.B.L. The object of limiting it at all is to prevent rigging small hulls with big sails which would be suitable for light weather racing only and worthless for cruising.
As an example suppose we take the formula (M.Q.B.L.)*sq-rt(S) / (5.5 * cube-rt(D)) and substitute for sq-rt(S) its equivalent 1.05 R[acing]L[ength] as per your recommendation, then RL / (1.05*RL) = MQBL/(5.5*cube-rt(D))
Now suppose RL is fixed, then M.Q.B.L. can be made as large or small as you please as long as D is changed so that cube-rt(D)is always a certain ratio of M.Q.B.L. Or in other words, having racing length and sail area fixed you are at liberty to choose any size hull you think best suited to the weather conditions.
The possible limit of speed of any vessel having no great propelling force than can be obtained from the wind by the sail she can carry, is governed by the speed of the wave she can generate and this is never longer than her body. The speed of a wave is depended on its length in the well known law S=sq-rt(L). Now the length of vessel for generating the wave is measured very fairly by M.Q.R.L., and this factor is the ruling one in the formula, which perhaps would be better understood if written RL=(MQBL)* (sq-rt(S)/(5.5*cube-rt(D)). In this way you may consider that sq-rt(S) / (5.5*cube-rt(D)) is only a correction of M.Q.B.L. for the amount of sail carried in relation to the displacement. It is very obvious that sq-rt(S) should be limited to the (M.Q.B.L.) and also that the classification should be by M.Q.B.L. and not by RL. as has been the popular way for the last few years.
I am still of the conviction that it would be wiser; better for the present generation and the coming one to make the class limits in ratio 5 to 4 (nearly) as I proposed in scale 100-80-64-50-40, both for schooners and sloops and based on W.Q.B.L.
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. It is very important that the present idea that the largest boat in the class is the best one should be exploded." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Lawton, N.D. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_71530. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F07, formerly MRDE15. 1902-09-19.)
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"[Item Transcription:] If you can do so without too much trouble will you kindly send me as soon as practicable the measurements of the MINEOLA [#529s], HUMMA [#553s], EFFORT [#552s?], COUNTESS [#538s] and INGOMAR [#590s] under the formula (L * sq-rt(SA)) / (5.5 * cube-rt(D)) or any of the other[?] boats of these named in the place of the ones mentioned, also the area of the working topsail and of the largest clubtopsail.
I only want approximate figures as nearly accurate as possible.
The Measurement Com. of the NYY Club and the Com. on Rules require these figures to determine the questions of classification and rules to be recommended to the club for adoption at the next meeting.
I am particularly anxious to get the MINEOLA & HUMMA classes and the INGOMAR and if I could have these it would be that I would require although I would be glad to get the others as well. I am... [Incl penciled NGH reply / notes:] [Penciled table with data for MINEOLA, ALTAIR [#539s], EFFORT, COUNTESS, INGOMAR showing quarter beam length, sail area, displacement in cubic feet, and measurement using above quoted formula.]" (Source: Lawton, N.D. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_69740. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F03, formerly MRDE15. 1904-01-26.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with pinpricks titled '#552. EFFORT 2nd. Fread[?]. Ap[ril] 22, 1904 to get sections for NYYC Model. Scale 9/7 x 1/24 = 3/56'. With calculations and note 'Keel deeper'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_04370. Folder [no #]. 1904-04-22.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH. Relevant contents:
§27: Work Order '[For] Rigging loft. Standing rigging to No 552 [#552s EFFORT II]. Upper shrouds …' (1901(-03-04 ?))
§28: Work Order '[For] Rigging loft. Standing rigging to No 552 [#552s EFFORT II]. Throat halyard pendant …' ([1900-03-04 ?])
§29: Work Order '[For] Rigging loft. Standing rigging to No 552 [#552s EFFORT II]. Throat halyards …' (1901-03-04)
§30: Work Order '[For] Rigging loft. Standing rigging to No 552 [#552s EFFORT II]. Jib topsail halyard tail …' (1901-03-04)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Order Book. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_01320. Folder [no #]. 1897-01 to 1905.)
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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:] I enclose herewith a copy of the amendments proposed for the Atlantic Coast Conference meeting called for the 8th. No doubt you have already received copies direct from headquarters. I have marked the author of these amendments insofar as I know (with exception, of course, of yourself).
I effect to be present at this meeting as a delegate from the Y.R.A. of Massachusetts, together with Charlie Adams. What do you think of these proposed amendments? Do you think the practical operation of the Rating Formula, so far, demands any change[?] in some or any change in L or L.W.L.? It seems to me that until some winning boat is produced under present rules that shows radically wrong or dangerous features that we should let 'well enough alone' and not go about mixing[?] up the innards[?] of the 'laity'[?] with continual changes. Surely, my own personal experience in sailing on and against such yachts as your AVENGER [#666s], SENECA [#670s] and ELEANORA [#552s ex-EFFORT II], and my own DORELLO show them to be magnificent sea boats always under perfect control. In model and structure they seem perfect, hence why change? I wish I could hear from you on this subject before this meeting.
We are getting pretty well settled in our new home in Newton and are much pleased with the change. We hope to see you or yours here at a not distant date. [Incl. envelope.]" (Source: Owen, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_69100. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F02, formerly MRDE15. 1908-10-03.)
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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:
§7: Work Order [For] "547s, #548s, #549s, #551s, #552s, #533s. [When wanted] Soon as possible. Running rigging 3-strand (1901-02-07)
§11: Work Order [For] #209p, #511s, #552s, #553s. J. B. Carr galv. chain cable (1901-03-01)
§12: Work Order [For] #552s ? [When wanted] May 10, 1901. Best made steel staples (1901-03-04)
§14: Work Order [For] #552s. [When wanted] Immediately - urgent. Blocks (1901-05-14)." (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 #552s Effort II even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Effort II (HMCo-made index card)
• Effort II (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Eleanor ex-Effort II (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: Effort
Type: Cutter
Length: 36'10"
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 II
• Eleanora ex-Effort II
• 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 I
Type: 36' 6" sloop
Owner: F. M. Smith
Year: 1901
Row No.: 186

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: Nov
Day: 27
Year: 1900
E/P/S: S
No.: 0552
Name: Effort
LW: 36' 10"
B: 10' 10"
D: 8' 8"
Rig: Cutter
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 10000.00
Notes Constr. Record: 43' R.L. class. Y.R.A. R.I. Sound Name changed to "Eleanor"
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 144 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $69/day, 214 lbs displacement/day)." (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.