HMCo #1424s [Tender to #172p Truant]
Particulars
Name: [Tender to #172p Truant]Type: Columbia Power Tender
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1937
Construction: Wood
LOA: 14' (4.27m)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Lauson Type LF-826, 3.5 h.p.
Built for: Ford Motor Co.
Amount: $1,350.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: (should have been motor b number)
Current owner: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, RI (last reported 2024 at age 87)
See also:
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: 706Model location: H.M.M. Model Room North Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
Original text on model:
"Original COLUMBIA lifeboat for 499 14' [long] scale 1/12 Nov. 1899 gig for #503 506, 507 [unreadable] (cut dinghy 520 16x14 7 1/2" frames dinghy for 624 scale 10 3.4 over 16 * 10-8 [unreadable] / 529, 532, 533, 534 16x14 add-on bow changed and shear raised remeasured Dec. 4, 1909. Boats for 692 and later" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"14' lifeboat of 1899 for the cutter Columbia. Also used, with alterations to scale, mold spacing, freeboard, and with sailing rig added, for many other rowboats, sailing dinghies, and tenders. This shape became HMCo's standard for decades to follow." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Model Comment:
"Reference to model 706 was added by CvdL on speculation because it looks very much like a Columbia Life-Boat." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 6, 2020.)
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.
Drawings
Explore all drawings relating to this boat.List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #1424s [Tender to #172p Truant] 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 002-117 (HH.5.00121); Construction Dwg > Launch - IC, 14'-1" O.A., 4'-8" [B], Gasoline (1935-11-02)
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Documents
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"... Herreshoff's are designing a new steam plant and building a starboard launch for Henry Ford's Truant [#172p]. ..." (Source: Anon ("Spinnaker Liz"). "Narragansett Bay Gossip, Yachting Magazine, July 1937, p. 98.)
Images
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Anon. "Tender to Truant [#1424s.]" Photograph (cropped detail), 1941.
Further Image Information
Created by: Anon.
Image Caption: "Henry Ford and Edsel Ford Leaving the Ship Truant after Inspection, 1941." [#1424s Tender to Truant behind Henry Ford in the upper left background. Cropped detail of a photo.]
Image Date: 1941-7-10
Collection: The Henry Ford Museum, Object ID P.833.75837.L. https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/219589#slide=gs-225638, retrieved June 23, 2021.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: The Henry Ford Museum.
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Anon. "Tender to Truant [#1424s.]" Photograph (cropped detail), 1941.
Further Image Information
Created by: Anon.
Image Caption: "Ford Gives His Yacht Back to Navy. Flag raising ceremony as Henry Ford's 138 foot yacht, the Truant, was presented by the magnate to the U.S. Navy for use as a training ship. Ford purchased the ship from the Navy in 1935. The yacht was once owned by then Secretary of Navy Truman Newberry, and later by Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities." [Cropped detail of a photo. #1424s Tender to Truant on port side of the yacht and upper right corner of the cropped photo.]
Image Date: 1941-7-16
Collection: Getty Images, https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/515168278, retrieved January 14, 2021.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: Getty Images.
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
Year: 1937c
E/P/S: S
No.: 1424
Name: Ford Motor Co.
LW: 14'
Rig: Launch
Amount: 1350.00
Notes Constr. Record: Should have been motor b. number 1424
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)
"This tender was acquired by the Herreshoff Marine Museum in January 2021. Before, it had spent decades in storage in Bluffton, Indiana." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 13, 2021.)
"On display at Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport, R. I. in 2023." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 22, 2023.)
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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