HMCo #943s Raggedy Ann

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: Raggedy Ann
Type: Warwick Fish Class
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1925
Construction: Wood
LWL: 16' (4.88m)
Rig: Marconi Sloop
Keel: yes
Built for: N/A [R. F. Haffenreffer III?]
Amount: N/A

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 #716Model number: 716
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
409 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"12 1/2' Buzzards Bay boy class 24 boats 1915 scale 1/10 size three [sic, i.e. four? #806, #813, #815, #817?] boats 1916
16' w.l. Oyster Bay "Fish Class" 23 boats 1916 scale 1/12 size sections 1/13 lengths 3 1/2 added at bow on deck" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"12'-1/2' lwl Buzzards Bay 12 1/2-class of 1915, HMCo's most popular creation with some 360 boats produced. Also, with change in scale and proportionally longer bow, the Fish class sloops of 1916 and beyond." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Related model(s):
Model XA2-1_01 by NGH (1914?); sail
Buzzards Bay 12 1/2
Model XA2-1_02 by NGH (1914?); sail
Fish Class


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.6.146-6

Offset booklet contents:
12 1/2-footer class, Fish class (Cape Cod Shipbuilding Embargoed)

Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)

Drawings

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List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   HMCo #943s Raggedy Ann are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 074-043 (HH.5.05328); Bronze Turnbuckles (1904-04-12)
  2. Dwg 025-089 (N/A): # 788 Class Lists (1915-01-29 ?)
  3. Dwg 076-123 (N/A); Sewanhaka 16' Class 788 Class (1916-01-26 ?)
  4. Dwg 081-117 (HH.5.06209): Spars for Seawanhaka, 16 ft. Class (1916-02-18)
  5. Dwg 074-062 (HH.5.05350): 12 and 16 lbs Anchors (1916-03-04)
  6. Dwg 096-156 A (HH.5.08114): Sails > No. 788 Class 16 Footers with Leg O' Mutton Rig (1925-03-14)
  7. Dwg 096-156 B (HH.5.08115): Sails > Herreshoff 16 Foot Fish Class (1925-03-14 ?)
  8. Dwg 091-169 (N/A): Rigging & Block List 16'-0" Class (1925-06-08 ?)
  9. Dwg 074-043 A (HH.5.05329); Bronze Turnbuckles (1927-03-07)
  10. Dwg 148-000 (HH.5.12237): General Arrangement > Fish Class, Herreshoff 16 Footer [Internal Arrangement] (ca. 1931)
  11. Dwg 130-000 (HH.5.10541): Sails > [Herreshoff Fish Class Marconi] (ca. 1934-10)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.

Documents

Nathanael G. Herreshoff

"[1926-07-31] Sat 31: NE [wind], overcast. Take a sail to West Bay to see racing from Warwick, with Ann & Agnes. Wirth [Munroe] goes in Haffenreffers 16 footer [#943s Raggedy Ann?]. Quite cold." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1926. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

Other Contemporary Text Source(s)

"... The first of the Herreshoff 12 1/2 footers or (Bull's Eye) to be launched this year was the Gremlin [#???s], which in the absence of its youthful skipper's sailing the seas to Europe, has been put into shape by father and mother Pardee, and we hope will be sailed by them.
Second overboard in this class was Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller's Papoose [#1173s] which has been in storage for about seven years and thus will be an addition to this year's fleet. Other 12 1/2 launched to date are Raven [#???s], Van Tingley; Bevis [#???s], Tony Corey; Raggety Ann [#943s???], Virginia Haffenreffer; Remora [#1092s], Stanley Livington; Minx [#1376s], Halsey Herreshoff; and Rhode Island Red [#1476s], Mrs. Halsey DeWolf. Also the Bristol Yacht Club's 12 1/2 footer, Cock Robin [#???s], is overboard." (Source: Anon ("See Weed"). "Ship Shape 'n Bristol Fashion." Bristol Phoenix, July 1, 1949, p. 3.)

"... In the 12 1/2 footer class those launched lately include Admiral Gilbert Hoover's 'Helena' [#???s], Jance Carr's 'Fishhawk' [#1460s], Nat and Halsey Herreshoffs 'Minx' [#1376s], Virginia and Jean Haffenreffer's 'Raggerty Ann' [#943s???], and Walter DeWolfs 'Sigma', recently purchased from Robert Loosley and formerly named 'Moro' [#759s]. ..." (Source: Anon ("See Weed"). "Ship Shape 'n Bristol Fashion." Bristol Phoenix, June 27, 1950, p. 2.)

Other Modern Text Source(s)

"1929. ... The class of Herreshoff 16-foot waterline knockabouts at the Warwick Country Club was sold, most of them to Cold Spring Harbor, to make way for 13 new German-built Atlantic Class sloops. ..." (Source: Davis, Jeff. Yachting in Narragansett Bay. Providence, 1946, p. 43.)

"The first 16 footers were designed and built by N. G. Herreshoff in 1916 for the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay, Long Island. ... The next fleet of boats was a group of three built for the Warwick Country Club of Warwick Neck R.I. These boats were delivered for the 1925 sailing season. They sold for $1750. ... Six additional boats joined the WCC fleet in the 1926 season. Once again, the price increased, this time to $1900. The nine boats of the WCC fleet were marconi rigged, with moulded oak sheer strakes and were named for cartoon characters. They were trimmed with oak also." (Source: Meyer, Richard. "Herreshoff 16 Foot Class History." (History written on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Fish Class.) Norwell, Massachusetts, January, 1991. In: http://www.herreshoffregistry.org/doc/Fish_History_Meyer.pdf, retrieved August 19, 2010.)

"The Warwick Neck fleet only sailed actively for a short time before the members decided to replace the boats with the larger and faster Starling Burgess designed Atlantic class. Upon replacement, many of the marconi Warwick Country Club (WCC) boats went to Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. From that point the boats began to lose their fleet identity and become harder to trace." (History written on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Fish Class.) Norwell, Massachusetts, January, 1991. In: http://www.herreshoffregistry.org/doc/Fish_History_Meyer.pdf, retrieved August 19, 2010.)

"Willard Gardner has bought Fritz Haffenreffer's Raggedy Ann ... [Note: There is no proof that this is a reference to #943s Raggedy Ann or even a reference to a boat of the Herreshoff Fish class. All that is known is that the HMCo in a list of its customers published in 1931 wrote that R. F. Haffenreffer, 3rd was the owner of the Herreshoff-built 20ft 6in boat Raggedy Ann, and that Raggedy Ann is mentioned in the Construction Record as number #943s. Gardner was from Touisset, R.I.]" (Source: Anon. [Title?] Yachting, Vol. 74, 1943, [p. 106?].)


Supplement

From the 1931 HMCo-published Owner's List

Name: Raggedy Ann
Type: J & M
Length: 20'6"
Owner: Haffenreffer, R. F., 3Rd

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

From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray

Year: 1925
E/P/S: S
No.: 0943
LW: 16'
Rig: J & M
Notes Bray: Name "Ragedy Ann" has been erased.

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)

"Note that the Construction Record only records Raggedy Ann with a question mark for this boat. It does not record an owner, thus leaving a question if it was really built. Her name, Raggedy Ann, suggests that #943s was a Warwick Fish Class, which all carried cartoon character names. This is further confirmed by a list of HMCo customers published by HMCo in 1931 which lists R. F. Haffenreffer 3rd as the owner of Raggedy Ann with a length of 20ft 6in, the length indicating that she was a Fish Class. Raggedy Ann was sailed by Harley W. Stowell out of Cold Spring Harbor according to newspaper records of 1931 and 1932 such as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of August 10, 1931 (p. 20) and July 24, 1932 (p. 27). In 1943 Willard Gardner was reported by Yachting Magazine to have bought 'Fritz Haffenreffer's Raggedy Ann'. At this time it is difficult to reconcile this note with the fact that Haffenreffer had been listed as the boat's owner as early as 1931 at a time when she was sailed by Harley Stowell." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 29, 2016.)

"Note also that the Bristol Phoenix of July 1, 1949 (p. 3) and June 27, 1950 (p. 2) mentions a 12 1/2 footer Raggetty Ann, owned by Virginia Haffenreffer. It is well possible that this 12 1/2-footer was acquired after the sale of the Fish Class of the same name." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. June 17, 2016.)

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