HMCo #1413s Chick

"N. G. HERRESHOFF 6 WALLEY STREET BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND February 24 1936. {1936/02/24} Dear Francis, ... The dinghy "Chick" is on moulds of Sidneys "Glory B" and built by the H.M.Co. for him recently. The H.M.Co. have a few orders and busy - in their way. ... Your affect - Father." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 12: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

• Chick (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Chick (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: Jan
Day: 1
Year: 1937
E/P/S: S
No.: 1413
Name: Chick
Rig: Frostbiter
Last Name: Herreshoff
First Name: A. G.

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 Unpublished database, ca. 2000.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.

"L.O.A.11ft 6in was taken from Maynard Bray dinghy database." (Souce: van der Linde, Claas. October 14, 2009.)

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