HMCo #1164s Louise Ann

"Herreshoff 18-24 Sailboats
Length over all 23 1/2 ft.
Length, water line 18' 9"
Beam 6' 3"
Draft 1' 11"
Sail area approximately 270 square feet. Keel and frame, white oak.
Planking: Cedar, single, fastened with brass screws.
Deck: Cedar, covered with canvas and painted.
Ballast: Lead, approximately 1580 lbs. moulded to form and securely bolted to keel with bronze bolts.
Centerboard: Oak.
Centerboard Trunk: Of bronze, welded to avoid the possibility of trouble from worms and leaking.
Metal Fittings: All of bronze to Herreshoff patterns.
Spars: Mast, hollow, others solid, all clear spruce.
Rig: Leg-o-mutton jib and mainsail with winches for both halyards.
Equipment: Herreshoff anchor, cable, mooring line, pump, bucket, sponge, mop, boat hook, compass, lantern, fog horn, lead and line, 2 life preservers, boom crotch, mainsail and jib covers, reefing line and stops.
This is a flush deck water tight or self bailing cockpit type boat designed by Mr. Herreshoff for use where a larger and faster boat than the 12 1/2 and 16 footers is desired, in which he has incorporated the semi-sharp and flaring forward section which enables these boats to perform satisfactorily in choppy waters, and has modeled longer, straighter under water lines with sufficient ballast to give proper sail carrying power for speed. Safety has been provided for by the flush deck and water tight cockpit, and this type of construction also gives most ample deck room.
The shallow draft of less than two feet enables these boats to be used in many places where there has been no satisfactory Class before, and all the previous objections to centerboard type have been avoided by the bronze Centerboard casing with all welded joints. The boat can sail to windward without the centerboard, to get into or out of harbors in shallow water, and the centerboard has been made sufficiently strong so that it is not likely to be damaged by accidental grounding when down.
White topside, green bottom and tan deck with bright trim is the standard finish but other colors optional if specified before boat is built." (Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931, p. 50.)

"The A. Sydney DeW. Herreshoff Room at the Herreshoff Marine Museum was formally dedicated Sunday afternoon, marking another important milestone in the history and tradition of Herreshoff boat-building in this town. Also, an important part of the program was the acceptance by the museum of the 30-foot sloop Bambino [#616s], donated by Louis B. Off, of Linwood, N.J.
Presided over by Halsey C. Herreshoff, the ceremonies were attended by a large crowd of invited guests, all of whom were greatly impressed with the display of items relating to the accomplishments of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. ... The museum is located in part of one of the buildings formerly used by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., at 18 Burnside Street, near the corner of Hope. In his remarks at the dedication Mr Halsey Herreshoff said that the site was where J. B. Herreshoff once had his home. ...
Among the gifts and contributors to the museum are the following: Power boat THANIA [#248p ex-Toddy Wax] by Daniel A. Newhall; Sloop BAMBINO by Louis B. Off; Launch '240' [#240p] by Gordon B. MacPherson; Sloop MIST II [#1164s ex-Louise Ann] by William L. Taggart, Jr.; Marlin Class Sloop [apparently #1421s] by John R Bumstead; Cat Yawl CYGNET [#1203s] by Capt Paul Hammond; Dinghy by A Sydney DeW. Herreshoff; Rowboat by Halsey C Herreshoff II; 1878 Steam Engine [apparently 2 1/2" & 4 1/4" x 5" built between 1881 and 1885] by Fred Simmons; Triple Expansion Engine by John Francis Brown; Capstan and Steering Stand from RESOLUTE by Isaac B Merriman Jr; Photographs by Mr and Mrs Paul A Darling; Bell used by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co, by Anthony A Nunes and Isaac B Merriman Jr; Herreshoff Steam Engine and Boiler [2 1/2" x 3 1/2" from 1891], by Henry Luther and Mrs Wirth Munroe. ..." (Source: Anon. "Herreshoff Mueseum Dedicated." Bristol Phoenix, August 18, 1977, p. 4.)

"MIST II
HERRESHOFF 18-24 CLASS MOUNT HOPE SAILING SLOOP
MIST II is a flush deck, self-bailing cockpit boat designed by N. G. Herreshoff in 1931 for those customers who wanted a larger and faster boat than the 12 1/2 and 16 footers. She has an oak centerboard in a bronze centerboard casing and the planking and deck are of cedar on oak frames. MIST II is ballasted with 1530 pounds of lead. When her construction was completed, she was used for promotional service In Bristol Harbor and was named LOUISE ANN. She was purchased in 1931 by Mr. William L. Taggart of Grand Rapids, Michigan and has only had one owner.
Donated by William L. Taggart in 1976.
LOA 23'6"
LWL 18'9"
B 6'3"
D 1'11"
#1164
1931"
[Acc. No. 76.1164]" (Source: Anon. [Text to accompany display of Mist #1164s at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.] Bristol, ca. 2005.)

"[Item Description:] Article titled "Another Gaff-Headed Cruising Schooner with Many Good Features' pasted on yellow paper preprinted with 'The Appended Editorial Comment is from the April Issue of Yachting. The Quality Magazine of the Boating Field'. Text begins with: 'On this and the following page are shown the plans of a fine-looking gaff-headed cruising schooner which combines a good turn of speed with fine cruising accommodations. She is from the board of the W. Starling Burgess Corporation, and will be built soon at Herreshoff's Yard, at Bristol. Her dimensions are: l.o.a. 51ft5in; l.w.1. 38ft; beam 13ft1in; draft, 7ft 7in; displacement, 52,760 lbs.; sail area, 1220 sq. ft. in the four lowers.' [No such boat was ever built by HMCo.] With hand-written note 'Have similar design made up for out 18-24 boat. C.W.H[affenreffer].' [A reference to #1164s Louise-Ann, built in 1930.]" (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.059. Advertisement. Box HAFH.6.2B, Folder Gaff-Headed Cruising Schooner 51 Foot. No date (1930 ???).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Penciled calculations titled '#1164 [Louise Ann]
Day sailing Boat.
Displacement and Center of Buoyancy'." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.033. Calculations. Box HAFH.6.1B, Folder Hull No. 1164 [sic]. No date (1920-02 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Penciled calculations titled '#1164 [Louise Ann]
Day sailing Boat.
Lead Calculation'." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.033. Calculations. Box HAFH.6.1B, Folder Hull No. 1164 [sic]. No date (1920-02 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Cover of a folder] [Verso:] Day Sailing Boat. #1164. Louise Ann. E. Migliori [sic. Most all of the contents of this folder (Obj. No. HH.6.033 at MIT Museum relates to #193006es Unbuilt Day Sailing Boat which subsequently was developed into the smaller #1164s Louise Ann]. [Recto:] March 12 - [19]30 Diagonal Curves & Sections taken by Mr. Alder to shop.
March 24 [- 1930] Same drawings taken back to draw'g room.
Note.
This Folder Contains:
a) Mr. Nath. G. Herreshoff's letter Dated Feb. 16 '30
b) Mr. Nath. G. Herreshoff's sections
c) Preliminary figuring from structural wood
d) (1-2) Displacement Computation (Deadwood after Lead keel) & Line of Buoyancy
e) Chart of centroid of area in a trapezoid." (Source: Anon (Nystrom, Charles G. G?) (creator). Note. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.033. Box HAFH.6.1B, Folder Hull No. 1164 [sic]. 1930-03-12.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan titled 'Whirlwind model [#193004es] 1/4in size. Summer of 1930'. With calculations arriving at a sail area of 1658sqin and calculations to determine the sail area for rating (1742sqin) and the rating (36.2in). With note 'Jan[uar]y 1, 1932. Rig to be cut down by shortening mast 6in and cutting off foot of sails. Mainsail … 960sqin. Jib 408sqin. Total 1368sqin. By rule ... 1438[sqin]. Rating ... 33[in]'. On verso is another sailplan of a centerboard sliding-gunter sloop [#1164s LOUISE ANN] marked 'Not used' in red pencil and showing forestay and mast to be moved aft (?) by 9in. With sail area calculations 'Actual. M[ain]s[ail] ... 180sqft. Jib ... 46[sqft]. [Total] 226[sqft]. Rule Ms ... 184sqft. J[ib] ... 50[sqft]. [Total] 234[sqft]'. Compare this plan with HMCo Plan HH.5.10484 (130-172 A) 'Sail plan for day sailing boat #1164 18ft-7in l.w.l. (1930-08-00)' where the forward moved forestay is penciled. " (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE02_04840. Folder [no #]. Summer of 1930.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Four-page advertisement brochure titled 'Herreshoff 18-24 Sailboat' showing a photo of #1164 LOUISE ANN on its title page. With marconi rig sail plan, deck plan, section and profile, particulars, and short description 'This is a flush deck water tight or self bailing cockpit type boat designed by Mr. Herreshoff for use where a larger and faster boat than the 12 1/2 and 16 footers is desired, in which he has incorporated the semi-sharp and flaring forward section which enables these boats to perform satisfactorily in choppy waters, and has modeled longer, straighter under water lines with sufficient ballast to give proper sail carrying power for speed. Safety has been provided for by the flush deck and water tight cockpit, and this type of construction also gives most ample deck room.
The shallow draft of less than two feet enables these boats to be used in many places where there has been no satisfactory Class before, and all the previous objections to centerboard type have been avoided by the bronze Centerboard casing with all welded joints. The boat can sail to windward without the centerboard, to get into or out of harbors in shallow water, and the centerboard has been made sufficiently strong so that it is not likely to be damaged by accidental grounding when down.
White topside, green bottom and tan deck with bright trim is the standard finish but other colors optional if specified before boat is built.' With slightly altered layout also used in promotional booklet 'Herreshoff Yachts' of 1931." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Advertisement Brochure. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.102. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Advertisement - 18ft- 24ft Sailboat. No date (1931 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Spreadsheet listing original contracts (from 1923 to 1940) by HMCo in the collection of HMM (apparently from the gift of Everett Pearson). Listed boats are: #380p, #381p, #388p, #389p, #391p, #392p, #393p, #395p, #886s, #933s, #934s, #954s, #955s, #962s, #983s, #999s, #1002s, #1017s, #1054s, #1055s, #1057s, #1074s, #1078s, #1122s, #1125s, #1130s, #1131s, #1147s, #1152s, #1153s, #1154s, #1156s, #1157s, #1164s, #1170s, #1173s, #1174s, #1175s, #1175s, #1176s, #1177s, #1179s, #1180s, #1191s, #1192s, #1193s, #1195s, #1196s, #1198s, #1199s, #1200s, #1201s, #1202s, #1203s, #1206s, #1207s, #1208s, #1209s, #1210s, #1211s, #1212s, #1213s, #1214s, #1215s, #1216s, #1217s, #1218s, #1219s, #1220s, #1222s, #1224s, #1236s, #1226s, #1227s, #1228s, #1230s, #1232s, #1234s, #1237s, #1238s, #1240s, #1241s, #1243s, #1244s, #1245s, #1246s, #1247s, #1248s, #1249s, #1250s, #1251s, #1252s, #1253s, #1254s, #1255s, #1256s, #1257s, #1258s, #1259s, #1260s, #1261s, #1262s, #1263s, #1264s, #1265s, #1274s, #1275s, #1277s, #1279s, #1280s, #1281s, #1282s, #1283s, #1284s, #1285s, #1286s, #1287s, #1302s, #1303s, #1315s, #1508s." (Source: Rickson, Norene (creator). Table. Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection Item LIB_4220. HMM Library Rare Books Room (HMCo Contracts), Folder [no #]. No date (2010s ?).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #1164s Louise Ann even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. [Contract for #1164s Louise Ann, 18-24 Class.] Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection. Bristol, RI, June 17, 1931. (664 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum. Original building/sales contract. Vessel description, scantlings, payment terms, delivery date.

• Louise Ann (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Louise Ann (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.

Month: Mar.
Day: 12
Year: 1930
E/P/S: S
No.: 1164
Name: Louise Ann
OA: 24
LW: 18
Rig: J & M
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: 1800 lb. lead
Notes Constr. Record: N.G.H. design.
Last Name: Taggart
First Name: Wmn.

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.

"[See also:] Sketch of models, sections - Correspondence from NGH (2/16/1930) - Displacement lists - List of lead calculations. In: Technical and Business Records pertaining to the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Series VI, Folder HH.6.33 (Hull No. 1164), Box HAFH.6.1B." (Source: Hasselbalch, Kurt and Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin: Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997, p. 63-79.)

"Only one boat of the planned 18-24 class, Louise Ann, was ever built by HMCo." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. Feburary 1, 2010.)

"Cost $2,500 from original contract in collection of Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 15, 2015.)

"An original contract in the collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum dated 'seventeenth day of June, 1931' to W. L. Taggart, Esquire, of Grand Rapids, Michigan states a date of delivery 'on or about June 20, 1931'. Note that Louise Ann had already been built by the time this contract was written." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 15, 2015.)

"Main Sail Area 199 sqft. Jib Sail Area 61 sqft. [Sum] 260 sqft." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Handwritten note on sailplan 130-172 B (HH.5.10485) from September 1930. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Sail area 270sq ft mentioned in original contract in the collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 14, 2015.)


"Displacement 3120 lbs." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Penciled note on construction plan 076-169 (HH.5.05602). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Ma.)

"Donated in 1976 by William L. Taggart to the Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 8, 2012.)

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