HMCo #1267s Frost Fish [Frostfish]

"N. G. HERRESHOFF 6 WALLEY STREET BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND Feb. 21 1935 {1935/02/21} Dear Francis, ... 'Frost Fish' - Sidney's 11 1/2 ft dinghy is still at Larchmont waiting the breaking up of ice. I don't know what her fate will be. All well here. ... Your affect -Father." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 11: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

"N. G. HERRESHOFF 6 WALLEY STREET BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND July 21, 1935 - {1935/07/21} Dear Francis, ... I understand young Haffenreffer has requested [Sidney & Becky] to take Frost Fish up to Larchmont, and sail her in the elimination races for dinghys to meet the English Challangers. It is unfortunate Sidney & Becky are not at all equal to the job. ... Your affect - Father." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 11: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

"July 13, 1934. Frostbite Dinghy. #1267. 'Frostfish'. Scale of Model 1in = 1ft. Frame spaces 6in. Planking 1/4in lapstrake (allow 5/16in for molds). First mold located 12in frame outside of stem, others 18in apart." (Source: Herreshoff, A.Sidney deW. Offset Booklet HH.4.200. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, https://collections.mitmuseum.org/object/hh-4-200/.)

"Seven B class boats, three A class and one of the new Dyer D class boats raced in the Harbor and Bay Sunday afternoon. Sid Herreshoff's Frost Fish, with Mrs. Herreshoff again in the role of skipper, led the B class with eight firsts, and Mrs. Stanton Smith' s Jade captured the lead in the second place with seven seconds, and 1 third place. ..." (Source: Anon. "Sid Herreshoff's Frostfish Captures Class B Honors." Bristol Phoenix, April 9, 1934, p. 4.)

"1936. ... Fast Deal
Sidney Herreshoff's new dinghy Frostfish was sold to a Frostbiter at Port Washington. The boat had to be at Port Washington the next morning because the buyer wanted to race her in the afternoon and she had about as many gadgets as an America's Cup defender. About 10 days later, the new owner called up and wanted Herreshoff to send him a blueprint of the rig for he hadn't been able to put it together 'yet.' ..." (Source: Davis, Jeff. Yachting in Narragansett Bay. Providence, 1946, p. 76.)

"[Item Description:] Handwritten notebook titled on outer cover 'Droughting Room. Blue Prints Record' providing a list of drawings with information in columns titled 'Issued To', 'For Job', 'Date', 'Date Returned', '[Date] Destroyed', and 'Remarks'. Vessels mentioned are #1266s BELISARIUS, #1267 FROSTFISH, #395p Owner Launch for St.Y. VIKING, #1265s NITRAMON, #1204s SILVERHEELS, #1233s RAINBOW, #1276s PRIM, #1275s MITENA, #907s PLEASURE, #931s NASSAU, #711s VENTURA, #900s IRIS, #982s WATER LILY, #891s WILDFIRE, #1147s WEETAMOE, #954s MARY ROSE, #880s JOSEPHINE, #788s MANATEE, #1146s ENTERPRISE, #1212s TRONDA, #1282s 12 1/2 for H. V. Reed, #1302s Amphicraft for N. F. Ayer, #1304s Amphicraft for Charles A. Welch, #1286s 12 1/2 for Mr. Maitland Alexander, #1311s Amphicraft for Dr. Seth M. Milliken, #1313s Dinghy for #663s RAMALLAH ex-ISTALENA, #1314s HMCo Yard Skiff, #408s PELICAN, #1315s BRENDA, #396p Power Tender for FONTINALIS, #397p Power Tender for FONTINALIS, #329p CAROLA, #1318s Sailing Dinghy for Henry S. Morgan; #1316s NOVA, #1319s Tech Dinghy, #1317s MANDOO II, #405p Surfboat, #1379s Fish Class for H. M. Lautmann (MERRY HELL), #1385s TINKER TOO, and #1384s AVANTI. 23 pages were used. Undated, the dates range from October 1934 to September 1936." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Notebook. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.106. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Blue Print Record Book. No date (1934-10 to 1936-09).)
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"[Item Description:] Four sets of penciled pantograph hull sections on verso of 'N.G. Herreshoff, Bristol, R.I.' stationery. Untitled. One is set marked 'FROST FISH [#1267s]. Sidney's new model of July 13, 1934. 11ft 6in w.l.' with calculations arriving at 9.45cuft = 578lbs. A second set is marked '3rd trial. Study model 13ft o.a. 12ft 0[in] w.l. Dec[ember] 22, 1934. (Before sandpapering)' with calculations arriving at 7.84cuft = 507lbs. A third set is marked '1st trial. Study model for Dinghy. Dec[ember] 24, 1934' with calculations arriving at 7.45cuft = 476lbs. A fourth set is marked '2nd trial. Dec[ember] 26, 1934' with calculations arriving at 8.5cuft = 544lbs. On verso another four sets of penciled pantograph hull sections. One set is marked 'Study model for Dinghy to carry on trailer truck. Sail 72sqft. June 27, 1934. Scale 1/12ft. w.l.' with calculations arriving at 8.5cuft = 545lbs. A second set is marked 'Model of July 1, 1934' with calculations arriving at 7.6cuft = 487lbs plus 39lbs for 1/2in deck = 526[lbs]. A third set is marked 'Model July 4, 1934. Drawing made for strop[?]' with calculations arriving at 7.59cuft = 486lbs. A fourth set is marked 'Model of Aug[ust] 1934' with calculations arriving at 8.20cuft = 523lbs. (The second page was formerly p. 7 of a handwritten draft design rule by NGH, defining Pm as 'If it does not, assume sailing length to be ...'. This has been crossed out.) " (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_06750. Folder [no #]. 1934-06-27 to 1934-12-26.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #1267s Frost Fish [Frostfish] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Frost Fish (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Frost Fish and other Frostbite class (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.

Year: 1934c
E/P/S: S
No.: 1267
Name: Frost Fish

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.

"#193402es Frostbite Dinghy and #1267s Frost Fish are built from different models. Overlaying of plans 28-79 for #193402es and plan 28-80 for Frost Fish shows the latter to have more vertical (plumb) bow and fuller lines forward." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 25, 2019.)

"The contract date for this boat was estimated to be 1934-07-13, which is the date of its offset measurements in Offset Booklet HH.4.200. But note that Plan 28-80 from which this boat was built was drawn only on 1934-11-22." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 26, 2015.)

"Built in 155 days (contract to finished)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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