HMCo #772s Mariette

"[1915-10-06] Wed 6: Overcast. ... Mr. Brown here to talk about [a] sch[ooner] y[acht] [Mariette #772s]. Ann R[oebuck] went to Prov[idence] in A.M.
[1915-10-07] Thu 7: I was married to Ann Roebuck by Dr. Locke in the Chansey[?] at 12:20. Grace L[ugo-]V[ina] and Frank Roebuck whitnesses. Later left in Helianthus [#288p] for trip. Signed contract for building [an] 80' sch[ooner] y[acht] for Mr. Brown [#772s Mariette].
[1915-11-08] Mon 8: Mr. [Jacob] Brown [owner of #772 Mariette] here in p.m.
[1915-11-22] Mon 22: ... Mr. Emmons & Geo. Nichols here, and later, Mr. [Jacob] Brown [owner of #772 Mariette].
[1915-11-29] Mon 29: ... Cast keel for #772 schooner [Mariette] --- about 60[?] tons.
[1915-12-06] Mon 6: ... Mr. [Jacob] Brown [owner of #772 Mariette] here in p.m. with Capt. Shirtlef[?] & draftsman.
[1915-12-20] Mon 20: ... Mr. [Jacob] Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in PM.
[1915-12-27] Mon 27: Strong NW [wind]. Mr. [Jacob] Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in afternoon with Mr. Pierce & Muldon.
[1915-12-30] Thu 30: Carload of steel plates for #722 [sic, i.e. #772 Mariette] arrived after being 5 weeks on [the] road [and] 4 weeks overdue. Snow storm.
[1916-01-01] Sat 1: Received steel plating for #772 [Mariette], it being over 3 weeks overdue.
[1916-01-03] Mon 3: Mr. [Jacob] Brown [owner of #772 Mariette] here in afternoon.
[1916-01-10] Mon 10: Set keel of #772 [Mariette] on lead. SW rain storm.
[1916-01-11] Tue 11: Fine l[igh]t SW to NW [wind]. Began setting up frames of #772 [Mariette].
[1916-01-13] Thu 13: L[igh]t SE, SW & NW [wind]. Have body frames & stem & st[ern]post up on #772 [Mariette]. ...
[1916-01-15] Sat 15: Have 2 plates in place on #772 [Mariette]. Very cold day. Ther[mometer reads] 6deg. in AM.
[1916-01-20] Thu 20: SW [wind] & overcast. ... 9 plates on #772 [Mariette] & nearly all frames up and stringer plates begun.
[1916-01-22] Sat 22: Thaw [with] SW wind & overcast. Have 11 plates on #722 [sic, i.e. #772 Mariette] & [all] framed out. 13 Seawanhaka 16 f[oo]t boats now ordered. Mr. Muldon[?] here with Cabin drawing of #772 [Mariette].
[1916-01-24] Mon 24: Very fine & calm. Bank meeting in morning. Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in PM with Mr. Laniat & Capt. Shirlook. ...
[1916-01-29] Sat 29: Temp[erature] 21deg. at 7:30. Fell 37deg. in 18 h[ours]. Very fine & calm in PM. S [wind] in evening. ... #772 [Mariette] has 28 outside plates on [and] 4 of deck stringer plates and most of cabin sole plates. Riveting well up.
[1916-01-31] Mon 31: SW [wind] with fog, mist & rain. Mild. Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in afternoon. Ground has been bare of snow nearly all the month.
[1916-02-06] Sun 6: Very fine & calm. Temp[erature] 40deg. At home. Nearly all plating [is] on #772 [Mariette] below A & B strakes. Stringers & cabin sole stringers nearly all in. Riveting well advanced.
[1916-02-19] Sat 19: H[eav]y WNW [wind] & cold. 13deg. in forenoon. Most of plating [is] on #772 [Mariette] except 1/2 of B[?] strake. Deck frame & forward deck in #300. ...
[1916-03-01] Wed 1: Fair & cold. ... Meeting. Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in afternoon with Mr. Fabian & 2 others.
[1916-03-04] Sat 4: Cleared in forenoon after several inches of snowfall. In house all day working on drawings [Plans dated March 3, 1916 show steering details for NY40s, 16 & 12lb anchors, and #772s Mariette interiors].
[1916-03-09] Thu 9: Set up 8th 16 footer. Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here.
[1916-03-23] Thu 23: Fair & cold. 25deg. morning & evening. Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here this afternoon.
[1916-04-15] Sat 15: Very fine. Strong N [wind] & clear. ... ... Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in PM ...
[1916-04-20] Thu 20: Part overcast & with light SW [wind]. Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] & friends here in PM.
[1916-04-27] Thu 27: L[igh]t variable wind. Rain in evening. ... Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] & friends here in PM.
[1916-05-04] Thu 4: Very fine after l[igh]t rain. NW & SW [and] light. ... Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in PM. ...
[1916-05-11] Thu 11: SW to strong NW & warm. ... Dr. Ayre here & Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] [in] PM.
[1916-05-23] Tue 23: Cool & overcast. SE [wind]. Launched #772, Mariette, steel 80' schooner for Mr. J. F. Brown, at 1:25PM and stepped foremast. ...
[1916-06-07] Wed 7: ... Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here in PM. Easterly & variable.
[1916-06-10] Sat 10: NE, l[igh]t r[ain] & mist. Cold. Max 53deg. min 49deg. ... Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] here at noon.
[1916-06-15] Thu 15: Mod[erate] SE [wind] & cool. Mr. Brown arrives and [is] getting stores on Mariette #772. ...
[1916-06-16] Fri 16: SE and a little milder. Showers in evening. ... Mr. Brown [owner of #772s Mariette] & friends dine with us.
[1916-06-17] Sat 17: H[eav]y SE to SW rain storm. 1.66 [inches of] rain. No trial of #772 [Mariette] as expected.
[1916-06-18] Sun 18: Fog early [then] clearing in forenoon. Off for trial of #772, Mariette. Adjusted compass[?] then a very satisfactory trial run over 1/2 m[ile] course, making over 8-1/2 k[nots]. Afterward, satisfactory trial under sail. ...
[1916-06-20] Tue 20: Mariette [#772s] left at noon. ...
[1916-07-08] Sat 8: Mr. Brown here in AM with Mariette [#772s]. Went onboard with Ann & Clarence for call. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1915 to 1916. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"June 18, 1916
Schooner Mariette #722. J.F. Brown, Boston.
80ft w.l. fitted with 8 cyl. 5 1/2 x 6 Van Blerck geared 51 to 90 to propeller [blank] x [blank] two folding blades with locking gear for backing.
[Power] Trial made over lower 1/2 mile course in Bristol Har[bor] Calm & nearly high water.
[Followed by tabulated trial run data with best speed being 8.46kn]." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. Handwritten note in Experiments Booklet '1911 Trial Trips and Experiments' under date of June 18, 1916. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

"The following winter [1915-1916] proved a busy [one] and I had to carry on the work alone. Of the sailing craft, the eighty feet waterline steel schooner MARIETTE, the New York Yacht Club Forty Foot Class of eleven, the sixteen foot "Fish Class" of twenty-two [twenty-three boats built for the 1916 sailing season, plus three boats for the 1917 season, making a total of twenty-six], the Buzzards Bay Fifteen Foot Class of six, and several others were built." (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. 73.)

"For the season of 1913 Captain Nat designed the steel schooner 'Vagrant' of eighty-five foot rating for Harold S. Vanderbilt. This was the second schooner this owner had had named 'Vagrant,' and her principal dimensions were, L.O.A., one hundred and nine feet; L.W.L., eighty feet; beam, twenty-four feet ten inches; draft, fourteen feet ten inches. 'Vagrant' was built to Lloyd's rules of construction as a 100 A-l vessel so was comparatively heavy, but though not particularly handsome, on account of her rather straight shear; she nevertheless proved to be so well liked that there were eventually two others like her built. They were the 'Mariette,' built in 1916 for J. F. Brown of Boston (afterward named 'Cleopatra's Barge') and the 'Ohonkara,' built in 1920 for Carl Tucker of New York. These three steel schooners were particularly able and comfortable and had a lot of accommodation." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Wizard of Bristol. The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with An Account of Some of the Yachts he Designed. New York, 1953, p. 282.)

"... Designer Nathaniel G. Herreshoff arrived home at Bristol last Wednesday [October 13, 1915] from his wedding trip on board the power cruiser Helianthus. Mr and Mrs. Herreshoff cruised up the Connecticut River and in Long Island Sound, visiting New York." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, October 17, 1915, p. 59.)

"... Work of laying down the new schooner for J. Fred Brown of Boston was started at Herreshoff's last Friday [October 22, 1915]. At the same time work on the mold for the keel was started, and it is expected that the steel frames and plating for the schooner will begin to arrive soon." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, October 24, 1915, p. 36.)

"... The construction of the steel auxiliary schooner for J. Fred Brown of Boston at Herreshoff's will be started within the week. The workmen have finished 'laying down' the craft and the forms, the same as were used in the construction of Harold S. Vanderbilt's schooner Vagrant, were assembled last week. The bending of the steel frames for tht schooner has been started, but the lead keel will not be run until the Resolute has been moved from the South shop. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, November 7, 1915, p. 51.)

"... The lead keel for J. Fred Brown's big schooner was moulded at Herreshoff's the first of last week. Fully 65 tons of metal were run into the mould. With the keel moulded and trimmed up the latter part of the week, the first of the steel frames and the keel plate have been set up. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, December 5, 1915, p. 25.)

"... J. Fred Brown's steel auxiliary schooner, building at Herreshoff's which is to be completed before the 1st of June [1916], is about one-third completed. All the frames are up and the steel sheating is well under way.
Capt 'Nat' Herreshoff, the yacht designer, was appointed last week a member of the Rhode Island Harbor Commission bv Gov. Beeckman. This is the first public office that 'Capt Nat' has held." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, January 16, 1916, p. 51.)

"... This Winter Herreshoff is employing fully 500 hands, the largest number of men in the history of the yacht building plant, and at that with the great amount of new construction contracted for, the yard is short-handed. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, January 30, 1916, p. 39.)

"... J. Fred Brown's 80-foot waterline steel schooner is nearing a general finish and will be delivered on time. All the outside work is ended and the inside finish is well under way. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, March 26, 1916, p. 60.)

"... The schooner building for J. Fred Brown at Herreshoff's will be ready for launching in about a week. It is to be named Mariette. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Knots and Splices." New York Sun, April 23, 1916, p. 16.)

"BRISTOL, R. I. May 23 [1916]. --- The schooner yacht of steel construction ordered by J Fred Brown of Boston last Fall, of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, was launched this afternoon with the owner and a party of friends from Boston on board.
The schooner is named Mariette and was christened by Mis Brown from a position at the bow. Designer Nat Herreshoff superintended the launching." (Source: Anon. "J. F. Brown's New Yacht Mariette Is Launched." Boston Daily Globe, May 24, 1916, p. 7.)

"The new schooner yacht Mariette, belonging to J. Fred Brown of the Boston and Eastern Yacht Clubs, has been launched from the Herreshoff yards at Bristol, R. I. She was designed by N. G. Herreshoff and confessedly built to give Rear Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt's schooner Vagrant [#719s] a race worth while in an open regatta. Mariette is almost a counterpart of the Vagrant, being but three feet longer on over-all measurement --- 112 feet and 9 feet on the waterline --- 89 feet. Their beam is the same, 24 feet, and the draught is 14 feet 10 inches for the Vagrant as against 14 feet 6 inches for the Marietta. Richard Sherlock, a well-known yachting skipper in Eastern waters, is to command the new craft." (Source: Anon. "New Craft is Launched. J. Fred Brown's Yacht is Designed to Race Vanderbilt's Vagrant." New York Times, May 27, 1916, p. 13.)

"... The rainy weather of the past two weeks has put back the work of finishing J. Fred Brown's auxiliary schooner Mariette, although when possible the painters, riggers and joiners have been working evenings until 9 o'clock aboard the yacht. ...
Capt Dick Sherlock, who was navigator aboard the Vanitie and master of the Sea Call, has been engaged as master of J. Fred Brown's new auxiliary schooner Mariette. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, June 18, 1916, p. 58.)

"BRISTOL. R I. June 18 [1916] --- The steel schooner yacht Marietta, built by Herreshoff for J. Fred Brown of Boston, successfully passed its first tests under canvas and engine power today. Mr Brown and a party of friends and Mr and Mrs Herreshoff were on board. The owner was greatly pleased by the boat's performances. She will leave for New London Tuesday." (Source: Anon. "New Steel Yacht Marietta Shows Speed In Its Tests." Boston Globe, June 19, 1916, p. 6.)

"Several members of the New York Yacht Club who were at Newport for the week-end witnessed the trial of the new schooner yacht Mariette, just completed by Herreshoff for J. Fred Brown of Boston, and which is fashioned on the lines of Rear Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt's schooner Vagrant. Mariette was built for the express purpose of defeating Vagrant, if possible, and the two are expected to meet in several races off Newport and Marblehead during the coming season.
Mariette, which, like Vagrant, is an auxilliary, made her trial under power over the measured course in Bristol Harbor exceeding a speed of ten miles an hour by three-quarters of a mile. Then she was sent under sail with a good fifteen-knot breeze blowing from the southwest up Narragansett Bay with every stitch of canvas except her fore-topsail set, making the run to Newport in time that was satisfactory both to her owner and designer, both of whom were on board.
Some of those who saw the trial think she is a bit faster in stays than the Vagrant, though she is rather lighter in rig as a whole. Running up the bay before the wind she passed everything afloat, and Captain Sherlock then hauled the sheets in and gave her a chance at a broad reach, running her up to Ohio Ledge and then returning to the harbor. She is getting her tuning-up this week and will go East for a few trial races before coming to Newport Harbor to meet Vagrant." (Source: Anon. "Mariette Is Tried Out. Yacht Designed as Rival for Vanderbilt's Vagrant Shows Speed." New York Times, June 22, 1916, p. 13.)

"The Mariette, the new schooner built by Herreshoffs for J. Fred Brown, after successful trials off Bristol sailed for New London last Tuesday. Rainy weather in the past two weeks kept back the finishing of this yacht considerably and for nearly 10 days before she left the builder's yard. Mr Brown lived aboard." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, June 25, 1916, p. 58.)

"... Although J. Fred Brown's auxiliary schooner Mariette was taken by her owner to the races at New London, the yacht had to return to Bristol for the final finishing. This work has been completed and the Mariette has left Herreshoff's fully completed and rigged. ... " (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, July 9, 1916, p. 51.)

"... All the work on J. Fred Brown's new schooner Mariette has not been completed by Herreshoff; as the yacht was in Bristol Harbor all of last week having the finishing touches applied. ... " (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, July 16, 1916, p. 50.)

"Fred Brown's auxiliary schooner Mariette, which was launched at Herreshoff's nearly two months ago, has not come east of Cape Cod, as her owner is having trouble in obtaining and retaining aboard the schooner a crew, owing to the large demand for hands in the coastwise shipping." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, July 30, 1916, p. 39.)

"The schooner Mariette, owned by J. Fred Brown of Boston, which has yet to make her first appearance in home waters, is again at Herreshoff's, having finish and repairs made on deck and in the cabins." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, August 20, 1916, p. 48.)

"... J. Fred Brown's auxiliary schooner Mariette has finally left Herreshoff's yard, as she sailed from Bristol last Monday [August 28, 1916] afternoon for a three week's fishing cruise on the banks. When the schooner returns from this cruise it is expected that she will make port at Boston. ... " (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, September 3, 1916, p. 54.)

"J. Fred Brown's auxiliary schooner Mariette is the largest of the local yachting fleet in commission this Summer. Like the schooner Enchantress, the Mariette has been commissioned under a short rig so that she can he handled with a small crew. Last Sunday afternoon the schooner paid a visit to Marblehead." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, August 12, 1917, p. 50.)

"J. Fred Brown's 50-foot auxiliary schooner Mariette, built in 1916 by Herreshoff, is probably the largest of the Massachusetts Bay yachting fleet in commission this season. The schooner was at Marblehead last Sunday, but unlike last season the Mariette has not been used under shortened rig." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, June 16, 1918, p. 49.)

"The auxiliary schooner Mariette, built in 1916 by Herreshoff's for J. Fred Brown of Boston, arrived at Herreshoff's last Sunday to be laid up during the Winter months. The schooner had just returned from a long offshore cruise." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, November 2, 1919, p. 54.)

"The fact that J. Fred Brown's auxiliary schooner Marietta [sic, i.e. Mariette], tied up alongside Herreshoff's shops, was housed over, allowed repairs and overhauling to progress throughout the Winter months. This work is now completed, and the Marietta is to be rigged for early commissioning this season." (Source: Anon. "Notes From The Week's Log." New York Times, March 28, 1920, p. 8.)

"Interesting is the development toward schooner class racing this season, as heard at Herreshoffs'. There are two fast two-stickers already at Bristol, including the new racer Ohonkara, built for Carl Tucker of New York and launched last February. Also the Mariette, practically of the same design, owned by J. Fred Brown of Boston, is at the yard fitting out. The two schooners are lying close to each other. Both being made ready for the first race of the season, in which it is expected the Vagrant, built at Bristol for Vice Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt in 1913, will be a contender." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, April 4, 1920, p. 53.)

"... The schooner Marietta, owned by J. Fred Brown of Boston, moored since last Fall at the Herreshoff dock, is emerging from her Winter covering, under which many improvements and repairs were made. The yacht will be in stream and ready for her sails before the yachting season begins. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes From The Week's Log." Boston Globe, May 2, 1920, p. 61.)

"... Changes in Ownership, Etc. ... Mariette (J. F. Brown), Charles L. Perrin has half interest; ..." (Source: New York Yacht Club (publ.). Yearbook 1922, Addendum following page 44.)

"Work of fitting out J. Fred Brown's 80-foot waterline auxiliary schooner Mariette, one of the first yachts on which work was started this Spring at Lawley's has been held up. In the last two weeks for a now foremast. When the crew started to scrape the foremast it was found to be quite badly weakened by dry rot, necessitating a new stick." (Source: Anon. "Notes From the Week's Log." Boston Globe, May 13, 1923, p. 65.)

"Commodore Nathaniel F. Ayer, whose former schooner Queen Mab [#698s ex-Vagrant I] won for him many prizes in the club's cruises of the last few seasons, will not be able to take part in racing this season, as his new schooner Lynx V, built from the designs of George Owen by Niccolo Martinolich at Lussinpiccolo, Island of Lussin, on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriactic, has not arrived on this side of the Atlantic.
The blue flag of Commodore Ayer for the cruise will be flown from the mainmast head of J. Harry Brown's 80-foot waterline auxiliary schooner Mariette, a sister yacht to Harold Vanderbilt's Vagrant [#719s]. The Mariette has been loaned to Commodore Ayer by Capt Brown for the cruise." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen. Eastern Y.C. Cruise to Maine Coast." Boston Globe, July 4, 1926, p. B51.)

"Although enrolled in the Eastern Yacht Club fleet for the last dozen years under the colors of Jacob Frederick Brown of Boston, the 80-foot waterline auxiliary schooner Mariette will next season fly the well-known private signal of the Crowninshield family of the North-Shore, as she has been sold by Mr Brown to Frank B. Crowninshield through the agency of John G. Alden.
Mariette, under the Brown colors of a red and blue swallow-tail with a white 'B,' has been for many Summers one of the best known of the larger schooner yachts of the Massachusets Bay fleet. Besides being very familiar to the yachtsmen of the bay, the Mariette also was well known to the skippers and crews of the fishing fleet, as Mr Brown made many trips to the fishing banks aboard the schooner for deep sea fishing. Also at times the schooner was rigged with a pulpit and sailed off-shore for a week or more after swordfish.
Mariette was built by Herreshoff in 1916, for Jacob Frederick Brown, the molds of Commodore Harold F. Vanderbilt's famous Vagrant [#719s], that was commissioned three years previous, being used. In fact Vagrant, Ohonkara [#827s], owned by Carll Tucker, and Mariette, were built from the same design, but owing to various amendment to the American rating rule, made between the building dates of the schooners, all rate different.
The Mariette is 109 feet over all, 80 feet waterline, 23 feet 9 inches beam, 14 feet 10 inches draft, and had a new four-cylinder Speedway engine installed in 1921 for auxiliary power. Under the colors of her former owner the Mariette made Hull her home port, out hereafter Marblehead will be the home anchorage of the schooner, as Frank Crowninshield has his Summer home at Peachs Point." (Source: Anon. "Mariette Changes Ownership. Well-Known Schooner Purchased by Frank B. Crowinshield." Boston Globe, October 30, 1927, p. A62.)

"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.05837 (079-026). Blueprint rig detail plan titled '#529 [New York 70] Class. Bowsprit & topmast end Cones. Feb[ruary] 3, 1900'. (Other boats referenced on this plan are #532s, #533s, #534s, #590s, #657s, #719s, and #772s)." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item WRDT06_01220. Folder [no #]. 1900-02-03.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.11637 (141-115). Blueprint framing plan with plan view and inboard profile titled 'Construction Plan for #772 [MARIETTE]. Scale 1/4in = 1ft. Oct[ober] 26, 1915'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0115. WRDT08, Folder 11, formerly MRDE02. 1915-10-26.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled note listing prices for 70 footers of the #529s class, #658s IROLITA II, #698s VAGRANT I, #719s VAGRANT II and ISTALENA of the #663s class followed by what may be cost estimates for 'Dub[?] VAGRANT 2nd', '91 o.a., 66 w.l., 20 beam = power' and 'Dub[?] MARIETTE [#772s] + power'. Undated, the latest of these boats, MARIETTE was built in 1916." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (?) (creator). Cost Estimate. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_03270. Folder [no #]. No date (1916 or later ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] As lately there has been talk about changing the rule for rating measurement for yachts and, if changed, to make it a 'sail area rule', I have tabulated some of the data on file with the Race Committee and enclose a copy thinking that it might be of interest. [NP] The tabulation shows the relationship between RM and the square root of sail area, as well as between racing length and the cube root of displacement. From the tabulated figures it would seem that rating measurement might be determined directly from the square root of sail area, as shown in column headed 'X', which is about 0.85 for sloops and 0.78 for schooners, provided a consistent relationship was maintained between L (see column Y) and also between the square root of sail area divided by the cube root of displacement (see column Z). [NP] As displacement is an element troublesome to determine, it would seem as if it might be possible to use Coefficient times (LWL x beam x draft), in place of displacement. She Coefficient is shown in the column headed 'Coef.' which is approximately 0.16 for sloops and 0.18 for schooners. [NP] The product of dividing the square root of sail area by the cube root of displacement is shown in column '2', and the result is approximately 5.3. [NP] It would seem from a study of these figures that a simplified rule might be obtained.
[Incl. blueprint table titled 'Relation between R.M. and sq-rt(S.A.) & L, also between sq-rt(S.A.) & cube-rt(D) in Racing Formula for Rating Measurement for Sloops New York Yacht Club. September 1919. H. de B. Parsons, 22 Williams Street, New York.' and providing comparative data for N.Y.Y.C 30 (New York 30 Class), #709s JOYANT, ALEDA, NAHMA, JOSEPHINE, ALICE, DORELLO, #685s KALINGA (ex-ADVENTURESS), MEDORA, DORELLO II, N.Y.Y.C 40 (New York 40 Class), N.Y.Y.C 50 [New York 50 Class), #666s AVENGER, #694s SHIMNA, #625s DORIS, N.Y.Y.C 65 (New York 65 Class).]
[Incl. blueprint table titled 'Relation between R.M. and sq-rt(S.A.) & L, also between sq-rt(S.A.) & cube-rt(D) in Racing Formula for Rating Measurement for Schooners New York Yacht Club. September 1919. H. de B. Parsons, 22 Williams Street, New York.' and providing comparative data for Sound Schooner Class, VENONA, MILADI, SIMITAR, AMORILLA, #698s QUEEN MAB (ex-VAGRANT I), TIMANDRA, FLYING CLOUD, RADIANT, #663s IROLITA (ex-ISATLENA), TAORMINA, KATRINA, PRINCESS, IRIS, MURIEL, #719s VAGRANT, #772s MARIETTE, SAVARONA, ARIEL, SEA FOX, ENDYMION, #435s CORONA (ex-COLONIA), INVADER, ENCHANTRESS, #706s ELENA).]
[Incl. envelope postmarked Oct 2 (1919) and labeled in pencil by NGH 'Letter from H. deB Parsons about sailarea rule'.]
[Incl NGH reply:] Your very interesting letter of 2nd inst came while I was away on a little cruise, and since my return I have been so very busy that I have not found time to make a study of the tables you inclosed.
There are some good reasons for using sail area as a foundation for rating and I have been much interested in the scheme for several years, and, in fact, spent considerable time in the winter of 1914-15 in making a thorough study of the subject and formulating rules and restrictions necessary with using the sail area rating.
Your study considers existing racing yachts which, with only few exceptions were built since the present measurement rule went into effect. In my studies I also condiered the possible modifications in form and proportions that would arise under the sailarea rating.
To prevent abnormal and unwholesome types being constructed, I found it absolutely necessary to make restrictions or limitations in a number of elements, to wit over all length, and cube root of displacement, in relation to square root of sailarea, freeboard in relation to mean length ((oa+l2)/2), draft up water in relation to square root of sail area but modified in larger sizes for conveniences[?] of navigation.
So by[blank?] in safeguarding the sailarea rating I found it was necessary to take practically the same number of measurements as we do now. Therefore the gain in making a change from our present formula (C * ((L*sq-rt(S) / cube-rt(D)) to (K * sq-rt(S) is a doubtful one.
The problem of getting the most speed with least driving power or crew, would be an interesting one, but if it becomes necessary to enact restrictions & limitations to keep yachts in wholesome form you are really driving designers to work to stereotyped proportions.
If a few slight changes were made in our present [Universal] measurement rules and our present formula (C * ((L*sq-rt(S) / cube-rt(D))used without any limitations it would be good enough for universal adoption and without time limit as it has already been well tried out." (Source: Parsons, Harry DeBerkeley (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_72930. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F05, formerly MRDE15. 1919-10-02.)
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"[Item Description:] Seven mimeographed pages with race results of the Cruise of the New York Yacht Club of 1922. Races: Astor Cups off Newport, R.I. on August 2d, 1922. 1st Run Newport to Mattapoisett on August 3, 1922. 2dt Run Mattapoisett to Vineyard Haven on August 4, 1922. 3rd Run Vineyard Haven to Provincetown on August 5, 1922. 4th Run Provincetown to Gloucester on August 7, 1922. 5th Run Gloucester to Marblehead on August 8, 1922. Among the finishers were schooners #719s VAGRANT II, #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I, #663s IROLITA ex-ISTALENA, #827s OHONKARA and #772s MARIETTE, New York 50s #721s CAROLINA, #711s ISTALENA ex-VENTURE, #720s ACUSHLA ex-HARPOON and #717s BARBARA, New York 40s #776s ROWDY, #777s ZILPH, #804s SQUAW, #774s MISTRAL, #779s SALLY ANN ex-JESSICA, #781s PAMPERO and #773s MONSOON ex-MAISIE, New York 30s #629s COUNTESS ex-MAID OF MEUDON, #648s MINX, #632s ALICE ex-TABASCO, #640s BANZAI, #637s ORIOLE and #630s LENA ex-PINTAIL, as well as cutter #586s BUTTERFLY ex-NELLIE." (Source: NYYC (creator). Race Results. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_72340. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F01, formerly MRDE15. 1922.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Typewritten calculations marked in upper margin 'Mr. N.G.H.:] Estimate: Cost Of Schooner Like OHONKARA
OHONKARA (827) [#827s] cost [Material] 50415. [Labor] 51162.
MARIETTE (772) [#772s] cost Material 29567. [Labor] 22248.
Estimated that material at 1922 prices will cost 87 1/2% of that used in 1919-20 44100.
1922 Labor cost is 82% 41900.
O[ver]Head] @ 62 1/2%. 26200.
[Sum] 112200.
15% Profit. 16825.
[Sum] 129025.
Extra for refrig, plant and extra elec[tric] plant. Extra power allowance. 5000.
Say $135,000 for price plus tax.
Tax 13.500.
Total $148,500. [These calculations were probably made during the negotiations for the contract for #891s WILDFIRE]." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.. (creator). Cost Estimate. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDED1_00290. Folder [no #]. 1922-09-11.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Printed pamphlet titled 'Racing Rules. New York Yacht Club. 1924'. Incl. a printed 'List of yachts, the measurements of which are on file with the Race Committee. July, 1924.
Schooners
D 7 FLYING CLOUD
D 10 IROLITA [#663s ex-ISTALENA]
C 5 MARIETTE [#772s ]
E 14 NOMAD
F 22 NORKA
C 2 OHONKARA [#827s ]
D 8 PRINCESS [#658s ex-IROLITA II]
E 9 QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I]
E 16 SHAWNA
C 12 SONNICA
C 7 VAGRANT [#719s ]
FF 1 WANDERER IX
D 22 WILDFIRE [#891s ]
Fifty Class
N.Y. 52 ANDIAMO [#716s ex-SAMURI]
N.Y. 55 CAROLINA [#716s ]
N.Y. 53 IROQUOIS II [#721s ]
N.Y. 54 MYSTIC [#715s ex-GRAYLING]
N.Y. 56 SPARTAN [#716s ]
Forty Class
N.Y.Y.C. 8 BANSHEE [#782s ex-PAULINE]
N.Y.Y.C. 2 COCKATOO [#775s ex-DOLLY BOWEN]
N.Y.Y.C. 12 IRIS [#777s ex-ZILPH]
N.Y.Y.C. 6 MISTRAL [#782s ]
N.Y.Y.C. 7 PAMPERO [#775s ]
N.Y.Y.C. 9 ROWDY [#777s ]
N.Y.Y.C. 3 SALLY ANN [#779s ex-JESSICA]
N.Y.Y.C. 10 SHAWARA [#782s ]
THIRTY CLASS
N.Y. 18 ADIOS [#647s ex-ANEMONE]
N.Y. 1 ALERA [#647s ]
N.Y. 7 ALICE [#632s ex-TABASCO]
N.Y. 15 BANZAI [#647s ]
N.Y. 8 CAROLITA [#633s ex-CARLITA]
N.Y. 4 COUNTESS [#629s ex-MAID OF MEUDON]
N.Y. 14 FIJI II [#639s ex-CARA MIA]
N.Y. 5 LENA [#630s ex-PINTAIL]
N.Y. 12 MINX [#638s ex-NEOLA II]
N.Y. 11 ORIOLE [#637s ex-ORIOLE]
N.Y. 13 PHANTOM [#648s ex-MINX]
0 Class
L.O. 1 GEORGIA
L.O. 4 GREY DAWN
L.O. 5 MAISIE
L.O. 3 NIMBUS
Various Classes
N 2 ALICE
N.Y. 58 BARBARA [#717s ] (Aux. Sloop)
P 1 BUTTERFLY [#586s ex-NELLIE]
M 15 LADRONE [#634s ex-SUZETTA III] (Aux. Yawl)
N.Y. 51 REVERY [#720s ex-ACUSHLA] (Aux. Yawl)
M 6 VENTURA [#717s ]
K 3 WINSOME [#717s ] (Aux. Ketch)'.
Of 49 yachts listed (including 11 NY30s, 8 NY40s and 5 NY50s plus 2 NY50s and 1 NY70 out of class) 37 or 75% were designed and built by Herreshoff." (Source: New York Yacht Club (creator). Printed Pamphlet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_01830. Folder [no #]. 1924.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§22: #772s MARIETTE Trial Run best speed 8.54kn (1916-06-18)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator) and Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_04280. Folder [no #]. 1911-06 to 1926-05.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled notes:] Job # 16650. 1/19/29.
For using figures in No 698 [#698s WESTWARD] Book for making model of OHONKARA [#827s] at scale of 1/4in = 1ft.
For transverse measurements take 2/3 of book readings on a 1/2in scale.
Frame spaces corresponding to those in the book have been laid out on the drawing of MARIETTE [#772s] ([Drawing] 1-57).
The keel is 3in deeper than the book figures, or 4in deeper using the scale of the model.
The stern is changes as per drawing (1-57)." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.098. Design notes. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Administrative - Notes. 1929-01-19.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #772s Mariette even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Taglang, Jacques. Mariette and the Herreshoff Schooners. Two vols. Eynesse, 2010.
  Vessel biographies, large-scale sail and lines plans reproduced from original HMCo plans. The definitive book on Herreshoff schooners.
• Crowninshield, F. B. The Log of Cleopatra's Barge II. 1928-1942. Privately printed, Boston, 1948.
  Cruise account of Cleopatra's Barge ex-Mariette. Photos.
• Bray, Maynard. "Herreshoff's Mariette." Maritime Life and Traditions #21, Winter 2003. p. 42-54. (2,643 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Vessel history. Detailed technical discussion of rivetted steel construction. Plans. Photos.
• Valent, Ron and Mike Hanyi. "A Day's Racing on Mariette." Maritime Life and Traditions #21, Winter 2003. p. 45-57. (610 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Race report.
• Taglang, Jacques. "Mariette and the Magic of Herreshoff." Classic Boat Magazine, October 2010, p. 28-34. (669 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Vessel history. Plan. Photos.

• Mariette (HMCo-made index card)
• Mariette (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: Marietta
Type: Schooner
Length: 80'
Owner: Brown, J. F.

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

• Mariette
• Cleopatras Barge ex-Mariette
• 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: Mariette
Type: 80' aux. schooner; later known as "Cleopatra's Barge"
Owner: Jacob F. Brown
Year: 1916
Row No.: 409

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: Oct.
Day: 07
Year: 1915
E/P/S: S
No.: 0772
Name: Mariette
LW: 80'
Rig: Schooner
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 75,000.00
Last Name: Brown
First Name: J. F.

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.

"At least parts of Mariette's interior were built by Irving & Casson A. H. Davenport Co. as per a note on drawing 141-118 (HH.5.11640) from 1916-03-14. Founded in Boston as Irving & Casson in 1875 and merged in 1914 with A. H. Davenport Company the firm was a renowned maker of furniture and interiors, including for chapels at Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh and, in the 1950s, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The firm went out of business in 1974 as per a Wikipedia entry. Historic New England maintains a Irving and Casson – A. H. Davenport Co. Archive and calls the firm one of the country’s most successful all-purpose design firms: 'From its showrooms in Boston and New York, the firm served business magnates such as Henry Clay Frick, F. W. Woolworth, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and George Eastman as well as middle-class clients. Prominent architects such as H. H. Richardson; McKim, Mead, and White; Peabody and Stearns; and Little and Brown hired the firm to execute many of their designs. Notable commissions included 225 pieces of furniture for the Iolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, during the early 1880s as well as work for the 1902 White House renovation.' The Historic New England collection includes Irving & Casson orderbooks (GUSN-302011, GUSN-302012 and GUSN-302013) which list among hundreds of other customers 'Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Brown' and 'J. Fred Brown', possibly for work on Mariette." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. Quoting Historic New England and Wikipedia. April 28, 2021.)

"[Was loaned by her owner to the U.S. Coast guard and performed submarine search duty as a Coast Guard Coastal Picket Patrol in 1942 with the registration number CGR-2048.]" (Source: Wilbur, John. Private Email Communication with Evelyn Ansel, Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum, January 2022.)

"Built in 229 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $328/day, 1276 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Sail area 7093sq ft from pencilled note on plan 1-57." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. June 2, 2014.)

"Displacement (4565 cubic feet) from pencilled note on plan 1-57. Note, however, that Mariette's 1922 measurement certificate by EYC measurer Everts Burther indicated her displacement to be 5118 cu.ft. as 'certified by the designer'." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 5, 2014.)

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