HMCo #583s Gamecock [Game Cock]

"[1902-03-24] Mon 24: Very fine. NE [wind] & clear. ... Set up [Buzzards Bay] 30 footer #583 [Gamecock]. ...
[1902-04-08] Tue 8: Heavy NE rain storm all day. Some thunder & lightning in afternoon. Very high tide. ... Turned over #583 [Buzzards Bay] 30 footer [Gamecock] ...
[1902-05-29] Thu 29: Cold weather. Strong W [wind] ch[anging to] N. Strong SW in evening. Launched & rigged the 13th 30 footer [sic, i.e. quite certainly #583s Gamecock, the last of the fourteen Buzzards Bay 30-footers (but note Bristol Phoenix May 23, 1902 report that Gamecock had been launched on May 23 and that Bristol Phoenix of May 2, 1902 reported the 'last of the special class of 30-footers' to have been launched on May 1, 1902)]. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1902. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Nos. 560 - 567 inclusive [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (also: #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]. B-3-m [sic].
Buzzards Bay 30ft Cruising Class.
Frame spaces 12 1/3" [center symbol] to [center symbol].
Planking 1 1/8".
Keel 3 7/8" deep. 1 3/8" below rabbate.
Overhang timbers, forward 3 7/8", aft 2 7/8".
Centre board slot (only in false keel) 3".
Timbers sided 1 7/8".
Timbers tapered 1" in 7' 6" x 0." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.131.] Undated, ca. August 1901. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Fourteen Buzzards Bay Thirty Footers were built in 1902." (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.)

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"There is considerable bustle in constructing the new centreboard thirty-footers at the Herreshoff shops. There is no time to throw away if the fourteen boats are to be ready in time for the beginning of the yachting season. It is understood that the boats will be drawn by lot the first part of April. Two-thirds of the fleet is now completed. Eight are stored in Walker's Cove yard." (Source: Anon. "Yachts in Bristol Yards." New York Times, January 10, 1902, p. 10.)

"Gamecock, sloop (#583), of Bristol.
Built at [blank] [sic, i.e. Bristol at HMCo].
10.42 gross tons, 8.73 tons; 36 ft. x 10.8 ft. x 5.3 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, overhanging head, overhanging stern.
Surveyed and measured, [no date? (March, 1902?)]." (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Gamecock.)

"... The work of finishing the construction of the last boat [probably #583s Game Cock] of the fleet of the centreboard thirty-footers is carried on briskly in the Herreshoff shops. One of the class just put overboard is at anchor in Walker's Cove. The fleet is to be taken over to Buzzard's Bay about the middle of May. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachting News of Bristol." New York Times, April 14, 1902, p. 10.)

"... Another of the special Buzzards Bay class of 30-footers [576s Anita] was launched from Herreshoffs Wednesday [April 23, 1902]. There is but one [[#583s] Gamecock] more of this class in the shops now in process of completion. Painters are at work on several of these boats at the Walker's Cove yards. ... [Though not mentioned by name, the sequence of launchings of the Buzzards Bay 30 class suggests that the newly-launched boat can only have been #576s Anita.]" (Source: Anon. "Yachting Notes." Bristol Phoenix, April 25, 1902, p. 2.)

"The last of the special class of 30-footers built to race in Massachusetts waters was launched from Herreshoff's yesterday. The drawing for boats in this class was made this week and the names of the yachts will be put on the sterns. The boats are named Auria [sic, i.e. #566s Arria], Anita [#576s Anita], Gamecock [#583s], Zingara [#570s], Larikin [#571s], Mashnee [#569s], Quakeress II [#565s], Pontiac [#567s], Arabian [#564s], Prazilla [sic, i.e. #563s Praxilla], Young Miss [#560s], Nolos [sic, i.e. #561s Notos] and Evelyn [#562s]." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Notes." Bristol Phoenix, May 2, 1902, p. 3.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 90:]
Gamecock, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1902.
8.73 tons; 36 ft. x 10.8 ft. x 5.3 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No specifications shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) May 10, 1902. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff.
Surrendered [license] July 13, 1902 at New Bedford. ([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. Gamecock.)

"Gamecock, the last of the special class of 30 footers built to race in Massachusetts waters, was launched from Herreshoffs shops yesterday. [Note conflict with launching date in NGH diary.]" (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, May 23, 1902, p. 2.)

"Mr. Charles H. Taylor Jr., of Boston, Mass. has sold his Herreshoff 30-footer, the Notos [#561s] to Mr. Robert C. Mitchell, Commodore of the Sachems Head Y. C. through the agency of Stanley M. Seaman of this city. Louis Bacon, of Boston, Mass., has sold his Herreshoff 30-footer Gamecock [#583s] to Mr. E. Q. Trowbridge, also of the of the Sachems Head Y. C. These boats will be entered in the Buzzards Bay one design class of the club, and may be considered the nucleus for other boats of the class." (Source: Anon. "Boats Changing Hands." New York Herald, March 5, 1906, p. 10.)

"The Gamecock, of the 30-foot class, for Buzzards Bay, which wintered at Walker' s Cove, is being fitted out there by the skipper, and Thursday received a coat of bronze anti-fouling paint on her underbody. She is to be set afloat this week." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Notes." Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 24, 1910, p. 4.)

"See also:
Forest and Stream 1901-09-21, p. 231 (BB30 New Class)
Boston Globe 1901-10-20, p. 32 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-02, p. 354 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-02, p. 355 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-02, p. 356 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-23, p. 417 (BB30 Trial)
Boston Globe 1901-12-14, p. 4 (BB30 Rules)
Forest and Stream 1901-12-28, p. 515 (BB30 Building progress)
New York Times 1902-02-03, p. 10 (BB30 progress)
Boston Globe 1902-03-30, p. 20 (BB30 photo)
Forest and Stream 1902-04-05, p. 272 (BB30 Almost Finished)
Boston Globe 1902-05-25, p. 37 (BB30 Names)
Boston Globe 1902-05-29, p. 2 (BB30 Transfer)
Boston Globe 1902-06-15, p. 5 (BB30 First Race photo)
Boston Globe 1902-06-18, p. 8 (BB30 Race photo)
Forest and Stream 1902-06-21, p. 493 (BB30 Race)
New York Times 1902-06-23, p. 6 (Herreshoff News Notos)
Boston Globe 1902-06-29, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-05, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-05, p. 17 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1902-07-06, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-11, p. 5 (BB30 vs NP30)
New York Times 1902-07-11, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-12, p. 32 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
New York Times 1902-07-12, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-13, p. 5 (BB30 Race in Newport)
NY Tribune 1902-07-13, p. 5 (BB30 Race in Newport)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-19, p. 55 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-19, p. 56 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-19, p. 57 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-20, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-20, p. 35 (BB30 vs NP30 Wahtawah dismasted)
Boston Globe 1902-07-22, p. 4 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-27, p. 35 (BB30 EYC Special, prize)
Boston Globe 1902-07-27, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-08-03, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
NY Tribune 1902-08-08, p. 14 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Boston Globe 1902-08-10, p. 9 (BB30 Rensselaer Trophy)
Boston Globe 1902-08-12, p. 1 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Boston Globe 1902-08-12, p. 2 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Boston Globe 1902-08-17, p. 38 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Forest and Stream 1902-08-23, p. 151 (BB30 EYC Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-08-23, p. 155 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-08-24, p. 6 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-08-30, p. 175 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-08-31, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-02, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-10, p. 10 (BB30 Season Results)
Forest and Stream 1902-09-13, p. 215 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-14, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-09-20, p. 233 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-21, p. 6 (BB30 Race Season Results)
Boston Globe 1903-06-21, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-06-27, p. 512 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-06-28, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-07-04, p. 15 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-05, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-07-11, p. 36 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-18, p. 12 (BB30 vs BH31)
Boston Globe 1903-07-19, p. 10 (BB30 Race Dead Heat)
Forest and Stream 1903-07-25, p. 74 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-26, p. 12 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-26, p. 26 (BB30 Cruise)
Boston Globe 1903-07-29, p. 8 (BB30 NP30 Race)
NY Tribune 1903-07-29, p. 5 (BB30 NP30 Race)
New York Times 1903-07-30, p. 3 (BB30 vs NP30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-08-01, p. 95 (BB30)
Boston Globe 1903-08-02, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-08-08, p. 116 (BB30 vs NP30)
Boston Globe 1903-08-09, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-08-16, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-08-22, p. 153 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-08-30, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-09-06, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-09-08, p. 13 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-09-13, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-09-26, p. 249 (BB30 Race)
New York Times 1904-01-12, p. 8 (BB30 Season Results)
Boston Globe 1904-06-18, p. 2 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-06-26, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-07-03, p. 12 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-07-10, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-07-16, p. 55 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-07-17, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-07-30, p. 96 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1904-08-04, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-08-06, p. 121 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1904-08-07, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-08-14, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-08-20, p. 163 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-08-27, p. 184 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1904-08-28, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-09-04, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-09-06, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-09-11, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-09-17, p. 244 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-09-24, p. 268 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-06-11, p. 46 (BB30 Eleven Boats)
Boston Globe 1905-06-18, p. 13 (BB30 No Race)
Boston Globe 1905-07-02, p. 11 (BB30 Walkover)
Boston Globe 1905-07-09, p. 4 (BB30 No Race)
Boston Globe 1905-07-23, p. 18 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-07-30, p. 7 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-08-06, p. 11 (BB30 Race Cruise)
Forest and Stream 1905-08-19, p. 161 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-08-20, p. 21 (BB30 Cruise)
Forest and Stream 1908-05-30, p. 864 (BB30 possibly Gamecock Duchess)
Forest and Stream 1910-07-30, p. 181 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1910-07-30, p. 182 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Boston Globe 1910-07-31, p. 14 (BB30 possibly Duchess)
Forest and Stream 1910-08-06, p. 223 (BB30 Race 4 boats)
Forest and Stream 1910-11-12, p. 784 (BB30 Notos sold)
Boston Globe 1911-06-04, p. 8 (BB30 Races planned)
New York Times 1912-07-21, p. S3 (BB30 Gamecock Mashnee)
Forest and Stream 1912-08-03, p. 145 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1912-08-03, p. 146 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Boston Globe 1913-07-22, p. 5 (BB30 Gamecock Duchess)
New York Times 1913-07-22, p. 8 (BB30 Race 4 boats)
Forest and Stream 1913-07-26, p. 114 (BB30 Evelyn Gamecock)
Forest and Stream 1913-07-26, p. 115 (BB30 Evelyn Gamecock)
Forest and Stream 1913-08-02, p. 147 (BB30 4 boats)
New York Times 1914-05-31, p. S4 (BB30 walkover)
New York Times 1914-07-12, p. S3 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
New York Times 1914-07-16, p. 6 (BB30 Gamecock)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-18, p. 86 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
New York Times 1914-07-18, p. 5 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 118 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 119 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 120 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 121 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 122 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 123 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Boston Globe 1915-04-18, p. 37 (BB30 Pontiac sold)
New York Times 1915-06-01, p. 10 (BB30 Zingara alone)
New York Times 1915-07-18, p. S4 (BB30 Gamecock Mashnee)
New York Times 1915-07-20, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
New York Times 1915-07-23, p. 7 (BB30 Gamecock)
New York Times 1915-07-24, p. 6 (BB30 Gamecock)
New York Times 1915-07-25, p. S4 (BB30 Gamecock Mashnee)" (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 21, 2011.)

"... 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.

"August 18, 1947
131-01 226 Street; Laurelton, L.I. N.Y.
L. Francis Herreshoff; Marblehead Mass.
Dear Sir, A few months ago I bought a Herreshoff designed and built boat. On the builders plate in the cabin is, No. 583 Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Bristol R.I. and on a deck beam is cut 8 tons No. 86616, I would like to know when this boat was built. Also the lead ballast has been removed, I would like to know how much there was, by weight. Thank you, Anthony Brucato." (Source: Brucato, Anthony. [Letter to L. Francis Herreshoff.] August 18, 1947. Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Coll. 138 - Box 3, Folder 2, Page 139.)

"The Castle. Marblehead, Massachusetts.
August 21, 1947
Mr. Anthony Brucato, 131-01 226 Street, Laurelton, L. I., N.Y.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 13th inregard to a boat that was built by the Heresshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, R.I. I am sorry to say that I do not have any record of building numbers of these boats or any of their designs so that you would have to write to the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for that information
Yours very truly," (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. [Letter to Anthony Brucato.] August 21, 1947. Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Coll. 138 - Box 3, Folder 2, Page 140.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled midship section with pinpricks titled 'Buzzards Bay 30. 30ft Class. # 560 to 567 [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (and eventually also #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]'. With list of scantlings. Marked in right margin '1902'. (Might this be the original sketch for the Buzzards Bay 30 class? This would date it 1901 and not to 1902 as suggested by the note in the margin --- which may well have been added in later years)." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_04110. Penciled Sketch. Folder [no #]. 1901 ???.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.02111 (029-015).. Blueprint general arrangement plan with plan view and inboard profile of two designs marked in pencil 'No 1' (with round-cornered deckhouse with portholes tiller steering) and 'No 2' (with rectangular trolley car-style deckhouse with rectangular windows and horizontal wheel steering) titled 'Proposed Designs for 30ft Class [Buzzards Bay 30 Class: #560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s, #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s]. Scale 3/8in = 1ft. June 7th, 1901'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0054. WRDT08, Folder 6, formerly MRDE10. 1901-06-07.)
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"[Item Description:] Blueprint general arrangement plan with plan view and inboard profile titled '30ft Cruising Class for Buzzard's Bay [Buzzards Bay 30 Class: #560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s, #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s]. Scale 3/8in. June 17, 1901'. With penciled hull notes of the first boats ordered '560 - 60 - 62 - 63 - 64 - 65 - 66 - 67'." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0029. Blueprint. WRDT08, Folder 3, formerly MRDE08. 1901-06-17.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections and displacement curve titled 'Nos. 560 - 567 [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (and eventually also #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]. Final. July 14, 1901'. With calculations for displacement of 'body' and 'keel part' arriving at a total of 304.1cuft = 19460lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_04250. Folder [no #]. 1901-07-14.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Buzzards Bay 30 footers. Nos. 560-567 inclusive, also [blank] [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (and eventually also #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]. Aug[ust] 3, 1901. Scale 1 1/2in'. With calculations and note 'Required 9820lbs lead = 13.8cuft --- c.g. [at] 55.4[%] of w.l. c.b. slot = ...' and concluding with note '... = 10110lbs for[?] 23in deep. 9820/10110 of 23 = 22 1/2 nearly at the preferred[?] depth of lead'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_09140. Folder [no #]. 1901-08-03.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled list of Buzzards Bay 30 building numbers, names, delivery dates, owner names and, as a separate list, dates to begin rigging:]
8[:] 560 [#560s]. Young Miss. May 28. Whittemore.
9[:] 561 [#561s]. Notos. May 28.
6[:] 562 [#562s]. Evelyn. May 21.
3[:] 563 [#563s]. Praxilla. May 15.
10[:] 564 [#564s]. Arabian. May 28. Winsor.
2[:] 565 [#565s]. Quakeress II. May 4. Harrison.
12[:] 566 [#566s]. Arria. May 30. Cotton.
4[:] 567 [#567s]. Pontiac. May 15.
7[:] 569 [#569s]. Mashnee. May 23. Emmons.
5[:] 570 [#570s]. Zingara. May 15.
14[:] 571 [#571s]. Larikin. May ?. Rob. Bacon.
1[:] 572 [#572s]. Wahtawah. May 1. Rogers.
13[:] 576 [#576s]. Anita. June 7. Crane.
11[:] 583 [#583s]. Gamecock. May 28. L. Bacon.
Begin to Rig:
1[:] 572 Apr 25 [Delivery May] 1.
2[:] 565 Apr 29 [Delivery May] 4.
3[:] 563 May 2 [Delivery] 15.
4[:] 567 May 6 [Delivery] 15.
5[:] 570 May 9 [Delivery] 15.
6[:] 562 May 13 [Delivery] 21.
7[:] 569 May 16 [Delivery] 23.
8[:] 560 May 20 [Delivery] 28.
9[:] 561 May 23 [Delivery] 28.
10[:] 564 May 27 [Delivery] 28.
11[:] 583 May 30 [Delivery] 28 [sic].
12[:] 566 June 3 [Delivery May] 30 [sic].
13[:] 576 June 6 [Delivery] 7.
14[:] 571 [Blank.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Penciled List. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_02930. Folder [no #]. No date (1902-05 ?).)
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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:
§24: Work Order [For] #576s, #583s, #578s, #580s. [When wanted] May 1, 1902. Chain cables (1902-03-04)." (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 #583s Gamecock [Game Cock] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Ryan, Arliss and Eric Sponberg. "The Buzzards Bay 30s." Herreshoff Marine Museum Chronicle, Spring 1983, p. 3; Fall 1983, p. 3; Spring 1984, p. 3. (267 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum. Class history. Brief vessel biographies.
• Bray, Maynard. "The Buzzards Bay Thirties. Four 1902 Sloops Simultaneously Restored." Wooden Boat #203, July/August 2008, p. 64-68. (3,624 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text). Class history. Brief vessel biographies. Linesplan.

• Gamecock (HMCo-made index card)
• Gamecock (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: Game Cock
Type: J & M
Length: 30'
Owner: Bacon, Lewis

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

• Gamecock
• 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: Gamecock [sic, i.e. Game Cock]
Type: 30' cutter
Owner: Louis Bacon
Row No.: 243

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: 11
Year: 1902
E/P/S: S
No.: 0583
Name: Game Cock
LW: 30'
B: 10' 10"
D: 5' 3"
Rig: J & M
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: $4525.00
Notes Constr. Record: Moulds 560. Pole mast. Double lead org?.
Last Name: Bacon
First Name: Lewis

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.

"Sail number A-11." (Source: Bray, Maynard. Woodenboat #203, July/August 2008, p. 66.)

"Built in 107 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $42/day, 187 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Actual sail area 1310." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. [Penciled note by NGH on letter from Frank Bowne Jones to NGH.] Herreshoff Marine Museum Correspondence, Folder 42 (new), 32 (old). September 28, 1903.)

"Displacement 20000 lbs from pencilled note by NGH on letter from Frank Bowne Jones to NGH in Herreshoff Marine Museum Correspondence, Folder 42 (new), 32 (old), dated September 28, 1903. Note that NGH noted in his design book a displacement of 19460 lbs." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 17, 2017.)

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