HMCo #1380s Scup
Particulars
Name: ScupType: Fish Class Marconi
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1937-6-3
Construction: Wood
LWL: 16' (4.88m)
Rig: Marconi Sloop
Keel: yes
Built for: Newlock, F. D.
Amount: $1,500.00
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.)
Model Comment:
"Reference to Model 716 was added by CvdL because this is apparently a Fish Class." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 13, 2009.)
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 #1380s Scup are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
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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 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)
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Documents
Other Modern Text Source(s)
"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 final two Herreshoff Fish boats [#1379s and #1380s] were built in June of 1936 and 1937. These boats were likely trimmed with mahogany." (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 1920 and earlier HMCo Index Cards at the MIT Museum
- 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.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Month: Jun
Day: 3
Year: 1937
E/P/S: S
No.: 1380
Name: Scup
LW: 16'
Amount: 1500.00
Last Name: Murdock
First Name: F. D.
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)
"The absence of any plan references for #1380s Scup suggests that she was built from other existing plans for a 16' LWL vessel. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that #1380s Scup was a 16' Fish Class." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 13, 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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