HMCo #976s Andy Gump

Particulars

Construction_Record_Title.jpgName: Andy Gump
Later Name(s): Louise
Type: Warwick Fish Class
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1925-11-17
Delivered: 1926-4 ?
Construction: Wood
LWL: 16' (4.88m)
Rig: Marconi Sloop
Keel: yes
Built for: Read, Malcolm E.
Amount: $1,900.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Warwick Neck Class
Current owner: Private Owner, Cushing, ME (last reported 2009 at age 83)

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 #976s Andy Gump 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 091-169 (N/A): Rigging & Block List 16'-0" Class (1925-06-08 ?)
  7. Dwg 128-091 (HH.5.10216): Sails > Fish Class # 972 16 ft. Marconi (1925-09-01)
  8. Dwg 074-043 A (HH.5.05329); Bronze Turnbuckles (1927-03-07)
  9. Dwg 148-000 (HH.5.12237): General Arrangement > Fish Class, Herreshoff 16 Footer [Internal Arrangement] (ca. 1931)
  10. 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

"[1926-07-10] Sat 10: Took a fine sail in Alerion with Ann & Agnes to Warwick to see race of 16 footers [Warwick Fish Class #939s to #941s and #972s to #977s] in Westbay. Strong S breeze and choppy." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1926. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

Other Contemporary Text Source(s)

"Many yachts are being laid up at the Herreshoff Company's yards at Walker's Cove. ... Three boats of the Warwick Class, Tomboy [#975s], Andy Gump [#976s] and Aunt Eppie [#941s] are to be hauled out, having arrived the first of the week. ..." (Source: Anon. "Many Yachts Being Laid Up For Winter. Herreshoff Company and S. C. Wardwell Busy Storing Boats At the Yards in This Town." Bristol Phoenix, October 5, 1928, p. 1.)

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.)

"20ft 9in HERRESHOFF FISH CLASS SLOOP. Hull #976. 60% restored in 1981. 7' dinghy, 3.6 Mercury outboard, and many extras. $7.000. Ledyard. CT 203-887-3436." (Source: Anon. [Classified Ad.] Wooden Boat #65, July / August 1984, p. 149.)

"... About 40 Fish Class sloops were built at the Herreshoff Company between 1916 and 1925. In 1925, a fleet of 7 boats, all named after popular cartoon characters, was delivered to members of the newly organized Warwick Country Club at Warwick Neck, RI. These boats carried the increasingly popular marconi rig. The Warwick Neck Class was sold to a group in Cold Spring Harbor, NY when their owners moved up to the Burgess designed Atlantic sloops." (Source: Herreshoff Marine Museum Chronicle, Fall 1989, p. 3.)

"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.)


Supplement

From the 1931 HMCo-published Owner's List

Type: J & M
Length: 16'
Owner: Read, Malcolm E.

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

From the 1930s L. Francis Herreshoff Index Cards at the Herreshoff Marine Museum
  • 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.
From the 1953 HMCo Owner's List by L. Francis Herreshoff

Name: Andy Gump
Type: 16' J & M
Owner: Malcolm E. Read
Row No.: 29

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.

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

Month: Nov.
Day: 17
Year: 1925
E/P/S: S
No.: 0976
Name: Andy Gump
OA: 16'
Rig: J & M
K: y
Amount: 1900.00
Notes Constr. Record: Warwick Neck Class.
Last Name: Read
First Name: Malcolm E.

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)

"Restored by Artisan Boatworks in 2003." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 1, 2016.)

"Ownership info from Steve Nagy's Herreshoff Registry." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 18, 2009.)

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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