HMCo #978s Starling
Particulars
Name: StarlingType: Fish Class Marconi
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1925
Delivered: 1926
Construction: Wood
LWL: 16' (4.88m)
Rig: Marconi Sloop
Keel: yes
Built for: Rockwell Jr., C. B. [(R. F. Haffenreffer)]
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Warwick Fish Class. R. F. Haffenreffer 10/18/26. Insured from Sept 9/26.
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: 716Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
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
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
List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #978s Starling are listed in bold.
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Dwg 025-089 (N/A): # 788 Class Lists (1915-01-29 ?)
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Dwg 076-123 (N/A); Sewanhaka 16' Class 788 Class (1916-01-26 ?)
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Dwg 081-117 (HH.5.06209): Spars for Seawanhaka, 16 ft. Class (1916-02-18)
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Dwg 074-062 (HH.5.05350): 12 and 16 lbs Anchors (1916-03-04)
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Dwg 128-091 (HH.5.10216): Sails > Fish Class # 972 16 ft. Marconi (1925-09-01)
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Dwg 148-000 (HH.5.12237): General Arrangement > Fish Class, Herreshoff 16 Footer [Internal Arrangement] (ca. 1931)
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Dwg 130-000 (HH.5.10541): Sails > [Herreshoff Fish Class Marconi] (ca. 1934-10)
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
Other Modern Text Source(s)
"... 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.)
Supplement
From the 1931 HMCo-published Owner's List
Name: Starling
Type: J & M
Length: 16'
Owner: Rockwell, C. B., Jr.
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: Starling
Type: 16' J & M
Owner: C. B. Rockwell
Row No.: 655
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
Year: 1925
E/P/S: S
No.: 0978
OA: 16'
Rig: J & M
K: y
Notes Constr. Record: Warwick Neck Class.
Last Name: Rockwell, Jr.
First Name: C. B.
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.
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