HMCo #575s [Sailing (later Gasoline) Cutter for Intrepid III]

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: [Sailing (later Gasoline) Cutter for Intrepid III]
Type: Sailing Cutter (later Power Launch)
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1901
Delivered: 1902-6-19
Construction: Wood
LOA: 25' 0" (7.62m)
LWL: 22' 3" (6.78m)
Beam: 7' 1" (2.16m)
Draft: 1' 1" (0.33m)
Rig: Sloop
Centerboard: yes
Ballast: None
Built for: Phoenix, Lloyd
Amount: $900.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Sailing cutter

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.

Model

Model #1006Model number: 1006
Model location: H.M.M. Workshop South Wall Center

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH
#575s [Sailing (later Gasoline) Cutter for Intrepid III] (1902)

Original text on model:
"No. 575 Dec. 1901 scale 1" frame 8" (INTREPID sailing launch changed to power launch for ELECTRA)" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.

Offsets

Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.134

Offset booklet contents:
#575 [22' 3" w.l. centerboard sailing cutter].

Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 076-035 (HH.5.05493) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #575s [Sailing (later Gasoline) Cutter for Intrepid III] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 077-007 (HH.5.05609); Boom Hangings for 16' Racing Catboat (1890-05-07)
  2. Dwg 085-039 (HH.5.06625): Bronze Slip [Pelican Hook], Torpedo Boats # 6 and 7 (1896-09-22)
  3. Dwg 029-017 (HH.5.02113); General Arrangement > Sketch of 25' Sailing Cutter (1901-10-19)
  4. Dwg 076-035 (HH.5.05493): Construction Dwg > 25' Sailing Cutter of "Intrepid" (1901-12-26)
  5. Dwg 079-088 (HH.5.05897): Details for 25' Sailing Cutter (1902-03-29)
  6. Dwg 059-046 (HH.5.04210): Knees for Centerboard Box, Bronze (1902-04-12)
  7. Dwg 060-059 (HH.5.04282): Centerboard and Fittings (1902-04-16)
  8. Dwg 127-130 (HH.5.09998): Sails > Sails for Sailing Cutter for Intrepid (1902-05-06)
  9. Dwg 081-011 (HH.5.06099): Spars for 25' O.A. Sailing Cutter (1902-05-09)
  10. Dwg 070-048 (HH.5.05048): Row Lock (Large Size for 12' Oar) (1902-05-17)
  11. Dwg 002-044 (HH.5.00043); Construction Dwg > Cutter "575" Altered (1906-07-16)
  12. Dwg 058-039 (HH.5.04110): Shaft Strut for # 575 (2.) (1906-07-24)
  13. Dwg 008-043 (HH.5.00741): Shaft for Internal Job # 4020 (1906-07-26)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
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

"[1901-10-16] Wed 16: Very fine & mild. [with] fresh SW [wind] in PM. Intrepid arrived in PM with Lloyd Phoenix. [He would subsequently order #575s, a sailing (later gasoline) cutter for Intrepid.]
[1911-04-06] Thu 6: Trying Intrepid's launches. New 25' one [#276p] very satisfactory. Old one [#575s ?] needs smaller screw." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1901 and 1911. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"No. 575. B-3-m [sic].
Frame spaces 8".
Deduct for planking 7/16"
Deduct for timbers 13/16"
[Deduct a total of] 1 1/4".
Lap strake with 1/2 beveled laps.
Keel 1" above rabbate.
7/8 below rabbate [??]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.134.] Undated, ca. December 1901? Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

Other Contemporary Text Source(s)

"The auxiliary steam yacht Intrepid, owned by Lloyd Phenix of New York, arrived here Wednesday [June 18, 1902] and sailed again yesterday afternoon. The Intrepid came here to get a launch built at Herreshoffs." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity" Bristol Phoenix, June 20, 1902, p. 2.)

"Bristol Yachting Notes. ... Lloyd Phoenix ordered a new lap-streaked sailboat, 20 feet in length, without a deck, at the Herreshoff shops the past week. ... [This is apparently a reference to the launch #575s which had been delivered, not ordered, the previous week.]" (Source: Anon. "Bristol Yachting Notes." New York Times, June 23, 1902, p. 6.)

Archival Documents

"N/A"

"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH. Relevant contents:
§33: Work Order '[For] 575 [#575s SAILING (LATER GASOLINE) CUTTER FOR INTREPID]. [When wanted] About May 20. Blocks & fittings. …' (1902-05-07)." (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.)
① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ ⑧ ⑨ ⑩ ⑪ ⑫ ⑬ ⑭ ⑮ ⑯ ⑰ ⑱ ⑲ ⑳ ㉑ ㉒ ㉓ ㉔ ㉕ ㉖ ㉗ ㉘ ㉙ ㉚ ㉛ ㉜ ㉝ ㉞ ㉟ ㊱ ㊲ ㊳ ㊴ ㊵

Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #575s [Sailing (later Gasoline) Cutter for Intrepid III] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.


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 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray

Month: Sept. [sic, i.e. no month]
Year: 1901
E/P/S: S
No.: 0575
OA: 25'
LW: 22' 3"
B: 7' 1"
D: 1' 1"
Rig: J & M
CB: y
Ballast: None
Amount: $900.00
Notes Constr. Record: Sailing cutter.
Last Name: Phoerwe?
First Name: L.

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.

Research Note(s)

"Sailing cutter (later power launch) for Lloyd Phoenix' steel schooner yacht Intrepid III, designed by Beavor-Webb and built 1903 bei T. S. Marvel & Co. in Newburgh, New York, 171ft LOA, 127ft LWL, 28ft beam and 16ft draft." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. June 3, 2009.)

"#575s [Sailing Cutter for Intrepid III] was converted to a power launch in the summer of 1906 and fitted with a Lackawanna 7.h.p. gasoline engine [as per note on plan 2-44, Job No. 4020 assigned ca. 1906-07-24]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"Plan 76-35 from which this boat was built was drawn 1902-01-14." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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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