HMCo #701s Foraminifer [II]

"[1911-05-26] Fri 26: 21' raceabout [#701s Foraminifer] for Whittmore left in AM. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1911. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"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.)

"No. 701. Same as #696 except displacement is increased by making # 28 frame 8/10in deeper in water and graduated and to ends of waterline. To have watertight bulkhead in # 12 & 42." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G.? Penciled note on construction plan 076-096 (HH.5.05550). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"BRISTOL, R I, Oct 1 [1910] --- ... Foraminifer [#701s], the second boat of the name, type and dimensions built by Herreshoff this year for Harry Payne Whitney, was launched Tuesday [September 27, 1910]. The boat is an improvement over the first boat [#696s] and appeared fast at her trial here Wednesday with Nat Herreshoff at the tiller. The Foraminifer is a 21-footer for the Buzzards bay class, planked with mahogany and has a small trunk cabin. ... [Note that the Construction Record lists Foraminifer to have been built for D. L. Whittemore, not Harry Payne Whitney.]" (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, October 2, 1910, p. 64.)

"N/A"

Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #701s Foraminifer [II] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Foraminifer (HMCo-made index card)
• 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.

• 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.

Month: May
Day: 14
Year: 1910
E/P/S: S
No.: 0701
Name: Foraminifer
LW: 21'
B: 9' 4"
D: 6'
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 2925.00
Notes Constr. Record: Replacing #696. Sold to Knowles.
Last Name: Whittemore
First Name: C.

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). Foraminifer's sail number was C-12. See Beverly Yacht Club yearbooks for more information on class." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 23, 2009.)

"Figure for LOA from 1917 Lloyd's list." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 8, 2010.)

"Built in 136 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $22/day, 49 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.