HMCo #818s Eaglet
Particulars
Name: EagletType: Sailing Dinghy
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1916-6-16
Construction: Wood
LWL: 12' 8" (3.86m)
Beam: 6' (1.83m)
Draft: 1' (0.30m)
Rig: Sloop
Centerboard: yes
Built for: Vanderbilt Jr., W. K.
Amount: $600.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Sailing dinghy
Current owner: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, RI (last reported 2024 at age 108)
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 number: 210Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Center
Vessels from this model:
4 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"No. 742 sailing dingy for KATOURA
removable fin keel scale 1/12 October 1914
No. [Blank] [should be 766] with cb for Harry Whitney
No. [Blank] [should be 818] for W. K. Vanderbilt Jr." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"12'8" lwl, 15'6" loa Katoura Jr., sailing dinghy of 1914 with removeable keel. Also centerboard sailing dinghies #766 and #818 of 1915 and 1916." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
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.6.146-8
Offset booklet contents:
#742s [15ft 6in sailing dinghy Katoura Jr.]
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Note: "Reference to offset booklet HH.6.146-8_01 was added by CvdL because this boat was built from the same construction plan as #742s that was specifically mentioned in it." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 24, 2021.)
Drawings
Explore all drawings relating to this boat.List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #818s Eaglet are listed in bold.
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Dwg 076-117 (HH.5.05568); Construction Dwg > 15'-10" x 6'-0" x 2'-6" to Go on "Katoura" (1914-10-19)
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Dwg 081-109 (HH.5.06201): Spars and Fittings for # 742 Katoura's Dinghy (1914-11-03)
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Images
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Further Image Information
Created by: Coolidge, A. Knight?
Image Caption: [Eaglet, a 12' 8" w. l. sailing dinghy built for W. K. Vanderbilt in 1916.]
Image Date: 1995-8-30
Collection: Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.
Image is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission
Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, www.herreshoff.org.
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: Apr
Year: 1916
E/P/S: S
No.: 0818
LW: 12' 8"
B: 6'
D: 8" [?] [sic, i.e. 1' ?]
Rig: J & M
CB: y
Amount: 600.00
Notes Constr. Record: Sailing Dinghy
Last Name: Vanderbilt, Jr.
First Name: W. R.
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)
"Eaglet was built from the same molds as #742s Katoura Jr., but had wide side decks, a centerboard and not a fin keel like Katoura Jr." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 30, 2013.)
"#818 June 26 1916. Lifting eyes 12' apart. Centerboard & lead on keel as on #766 & #767 [Centreboard 7/8 thick, oak. Lead inserted to sink. About 225 lbs lead in deadwood, with [center] at # 13 space] but rudder 2 1/2" farther forward. Air tanks at each end, after bulkhead on #21. Decked in on side 12", coaming 1 1/2" high above deck, 2 1/2" high at fwd end. Rigging & blocks as for #744 [12 1/2 footer] class. Seats & coaming mahogany. Thwart between # 17 & # 18. Tiller 2'-7" long [as per notes on drawing 76-117]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 3, 2017.)
"Eaglet's owner W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. home on Long Island was named Eagle's Nest and after World War I he acquired the 150ft LOA formerly British steam yacht Adventuress which he renamed Eagle. All this suggests that Eaglet probably is this boat's original name." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 3, 2017.)
"Lapstrake dinghy." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 30, 2017."
"Contract date June 16, 1916 as per note on HMCo-made index card for #818s in Hart Nautical Collections at M.I.T.." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 5, 2017.)
"Eaglet was acquired from Knight Coolidge by the Herreshoff Marine Museum in September 1999." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 7, 2008.)
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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