HMCo #696s Foraminifer [I]

"No. 696 [#696s].
Frame spaces 9".
Timbers moulded 1 1/8 at head. Between # 24 - 33 inclusive, to increase moulded way 1/8" per ft. All others moulded 1 1/8 full length.
Planking 3/4.
Decking 3/4.
Sheer height given is to upper side of deck.
Keel 1 3/8 above rabbate and 3/8 (more or less) below in middle part.
Stem head 3/4".
Deck beam crown about 4 1/4" in 9ft." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Handwritten (in pencil and ink) note in Offset Booklet HH.4.170.] March 1910. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"BRISTOL, R I. April 30 [1910] --- Three small racing sloops, one [#697s Toboggan] for Robert W. Emmons 2d and one [#695s Peg] for Galen M. Stone, both for the sonder class for racing at Marblehead, and the third [#696s Foraminifer] a mahogany centerboard sloop for racing at Buzzards bay, are practically ready to take the water at Herreshoff's. ... The centerboard boat, for a Buzzards bay man, is the latest thing in Herreshoff small racing models, and is as straight on deck as in the water line. She has an especially big beam and a light draft, and is about 30 feet over all with medium length overhangs." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, May 1, 1910, p. 57.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., May 27 [1911] --- ... The 21-foot knockabout Foraminifer [#696s] was put overboard at the Walkers Cove yard last Monday [May 22, 1911] and was fitted out the same day. R. W. Emmons formerly owned her." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, May 28, 1911, p. 62.)

"One of the fast raceabout yachts which was successful on the Sound last year, the 21-footer Kim, will feel different water under her this Summer. Kim, which is a Herreshoff model, has been purchased by James O. Hoyworth of Chicago, a former member of the United States Shipping Board. Kim was owned and raced last year by M. E. Hatfield [who had gone on and acquired the New York 30 Nautilus]." (Source: Anon. "Easterners to Try for Motorboat Cup." New York Times, March 27, 1921, p. x.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled '#696 [FORAMINIFER]. From finished model. Feb[ruary] 1910. Buzzards Bay 21ft Raceabout. Scale 1in'. With calculations arriving at a total displacement of 99.2cuft or 6350lbs in salt water and a wetted surface of 213.0sqft." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01230. Folder [no #]. 1910-02.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'No. 696 [#696s FORAMINIFER (note: last digit appears to be crossed out and corrected to 7 resulting in #697s TOBOGGAN but the required 3025lbs lead are clearly related to FORAMINIFER I] Feb[ruary] 27, 1910'. With calculations and note '#696. 21ft Buzzards Bay Class. Required 3025lbs lead at .537 of w.l. 3025lbs lead = 7350cuin [at] .537 of w.l. = ... 29.05 frames' and concluding with calculations and note 'Result. ... 7350[cuin] at 29.05 [frames]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08470. Folder [no #]. 1910-02-27.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled hull sections with pinpricks. Untitled. This is probably a comparison of sections from different boats. One section is labeled 696 [#696s FORAMINIFER]. On verso another sketch which may have been a test of the pantograph." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0431. WRDT08, Folder 35, formerly MRDE08. No date (1910 or later).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH. Relevant contents:
§14: Work Order [For] #695s, #696s. [When wanted] Early in May. Rigging [3 pages] (1910-02-06)
§17: Work Order [For] #695s, #697s [or #696s ?]. Spars (1910-02-08)
§18: Work Order [For] #696s. [When wanted] Latter part of May. Rigging [2 pages] (1910-03-30 & 1910-04-01)
§20: Work Order [For] #696s. [When wanted] Latter part of May. Blocks (1910-04-02)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Order Book. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_04730. Folder [no #]. 1909-10 to 1914-11.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #696s Foraminifer [I] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Selwonk ex-Foraminifer (HMCo-made index card)
• Selwonk ex-Foraminifer (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: Foraminifer
Type: J & M
Length: 21'
Owner: Whittemore, D. L.

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

• Selwonk ex-Foraminifer
• Kim ex-Foraminifer
• 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: Foraminifer
Type: 20' 3" sloop
Owner: D. L. Whittemore
Row No.: 237

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: Jan
Day: 29
Year: 1910
E/P/S: S
No.: 0696
Name: Foraminifer
LW: 21'
B: 9' 4"
D: 6'
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 2925.00
Notes Constr. Record: Cancelled & Sold to L.F. Runoles (?) 1911. Name chgd to "Schwonk" (?).
Last Name: Whittemore
First Name: D. 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.

"Raceabout. Beverly Yacht Club 21' Restricted Class (assigned the letter C as sail number prefix). See Beverly Yacht Club yearbooks for more information on class." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 23, 2009.)

"Built in 137 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $21/day, 46 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Total 6323 lbs.
Hull 5759 lbs.
Mast & Rigging attached to boat 220 lbs.
Boom, gaff, cover & mainsail 144 lbs.
No 1-2-3 job, 1-2-3 baloon jib, spinaker, bazs[sp?] 57 lbs.
Equipment 143 lbs.
[Sum] 6323 [lbs]. [Note: The construction plan was for #701s Foraminifer II and #705s Saracen and it might be possible that this note applied to either one of these boats rather than #696s Foraminifer I for which the plan had originally been drawn (and which was noted on the plan to have been lighter than #701s.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G.? Penciled note on construction plan 076-096 (HH.5.05550). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

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