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Detail - Hull 1181

Status:FOUNDRecent Update:2019.01.17
 
Original Name:OspreyCurrent Name:Osprey
Hull No:1181Home Port:Newport, RI
Contracted By:Sheldon Whitehouse, Esq.Current Owner(s):Sheldon Whitehouse
Contract Date:10/1936Owner Since:2008
Class:S ClassSail Number:8
Sub-Class:Fleet:Narragansett Bay
Original Rig:J&MYacht Club:ILYC
Current Rig:
Original Price: Restored By:
LOA:27 ft. 6 in.Maintained By:
LWL:20 ft. 6 in.Notes:
Beam:7 ft. 2 in.
Draft:4 ft. 9 in.
Designer:NGH
Other Resources:HCR
Gallery / Galleries:
 
Provenance:

OwnerYearsLocationBoat NameSail No.
Sheldon Whitehouse1935 - 1940Newport, RIOsprey8
John Nicholas Brown1944Newport, RITarrantella 
Edward B. Tiffany1945 - 1946Narragansett BayOlita18
Henry Walsh1947 - 1949Narragansett BayJocelyn18
Green1956 - 1957Long Island, NYTonic18
Herbert L. Jamison1957 - 1966Long Island, NYNereid28
Bradford Smith1966 - Rye, NYNereid28
Richard L. Seamans Narragansett Bay 38
Frank McGonagle1973 - 1978Coles River, RINereid38
Malcolm Davidson1979 - 1963Narragansett BayNereid38
Ramsley1965 - 1989Taunton River, MA  
Mike McCaffrey1989 - 2008Newport, RIOsprey8

Senator Whitehouse re-acquired this boat for his family in 2008. It was once owned by his grandfather.





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