HMCo #568s [Sailing Dinghy for St. Y. Colonia]
Particulars
Type: Colonia Sailing Dinghy
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1901-7-5
Construction: Wood
LWL: 17' 3" (5.26m)
Beam: 5' 6" (1.68m)
Draft: 0' 7.75" (0.20m)
Rig: Sloop
Keel: yes
Centerboard: yes
Ballast: Lead outside
Built for: Bourne, F. G.
Amount: $375.00
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: 18
Vessels from this model:
36 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"Sailing dingy for COLONIA July 1901 1/12
Numbers 217 and 218 (1903) frame spaces 8 1/2" instead of 7 1/2" raised 1/2" stem 6" aft flared out to 5' 5" beam Model cut away forward and remeasured before #218 set up Dec. 1901
1923 (01?) sailing cutter for ROAMER 1925 sailing cutter for Rob. Tod 1926 sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"#568 17'3" loa sailing dinghy of 1901 for the cutter Colonia. Also, with modifications, #217 Maisie and #218 Carmen, 20 loa electric launches of 1901, sailing cutter for the steam yacht Roamer, sailing cutter for the schooner Katoura, and sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
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.4.132
Offset booklet contents:
#568, #217, #218, #709 (rowboat) [17' 3" w.l. sailing dinghy, 20' l.o.a. electric launches Maisie & Carmen, tender for Joyant (#191108es)].
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Drawings
![Main drawing Dwg 028-022 [076-032] (HH.5.02019)](../Images_Drawings/250px/HH.5.02019.jpg)
List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #568s [Sailing Dinghy for St. Y. Colonia] are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
- Dwg 130-082 (HH.5.10386): Sails > # 568 Sailing Dinghy for S.Y. Coloma (1901-07-14)
- Dwg 028-022 [076-032] (HH.5.02019); Construction Dwg > Sailing Dinghie [sic] # 568, 17' x 5'-1" (1901-07-16)
- Dwg 079-086 (HH.5.05895): Boom Hanging for Sailing Dinghies (1901-07-28)
- Dwg 081-002 (HH.5.06090): Spars for Sailing Dinghie (1901-07-28)
- Dwg 127-116 (HH.5.09984): Sails > Sails for # 568 Sailing Dinghy for S.Y. Colonia (1901-07-28)
- Dwg 002-020 (HH.5.00020); Construction Dwg > 20' Electric Launch # 218 and # 217, Also Launch for Bellemere (1901-12-14)
- Dwg 028-040 [076-104] (HH.5.02039); Construction Dwg > Rowboat 8'-5" O.A., 3'-9" Wide, 1'-6" Deep (1911-05-11)
- Dwg 028-049 [076-124] (HH.5.02048); Construction Dwg > 19'-3" x 5'-6" Sailing Cutter for # 772 (1916-05-31)
- Dwg 002-098 (HH.5.00101); Construction Dwg > Launch - IC, 16'-1" O.A., 5'-1"[B] (1919-05-26)
- Dwg 028-053 [076-129] (HH.5.02052); Construction Dwg > 19'-3" x 5'-6" Power Life Boat No. 1 for # 329 (1919-07-01)
- Dwg 028-062 (HH.5.02061); Construction Dwg > Sailing Dinghie [sic] for Mr. Chas. A. Goodwin on Moulds of # 568 (1926-07 ?)
- Dwg 132-000 (HH.5.10752); Sails > Sailing Dinghie Proposed for Chas. A. Goodwin (1926-07-04)
- Dwg 079-085 (HH.5.05894): Sailing Dinghies [Metal Fittings] (1936-03-11)
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.
Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"B-3-m [sic; on previous page]
No. 568.
17ft Sailing dingie[sic].
Frame spaces 7 1/2".
Planking 5/16" lapped.
Timbers 3/4" sided, 9/16" moulded.
Keel 1 3/8 deep (11/16" below garboard)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.132.] Undated, ca. July 1901. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
Archival Documents
"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan titled ''On moulds of Life [Boat] for COLUMBIA. Sheer raised 5in and stem moved aft 5in. cale 1/12in. July 10, [19]01. Not used. See other drawing for #568 [Sailing dinghy for St. Y. COLONIA]'. With list of scantlings." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0335. WRDT04, Folder 30, formerly MRDE09. 1901-07-10.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #568s [Sailing Dinghy for St. Y. Colonia] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.
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. and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Month: July
Day: 05
Year: 1901
E/P/S: S
No.: 0568
LW: 17' 3"
B: 5' 1/2"
D: 7 3/4"
Rig: J & M
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: $375.00
Last Name: Bourse?
First Name: F. A. ?
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.
Link to the Herreshoff Registry
The Herreshoff Registry, founded by Steve Nagy and later administered by Teeter Bibber, can be particularly useful for researching the provenance of Herreshoff-built sailing vessels. Permission to link to the Registry is gratefully acknowledged! Note: The Herreshoff Registry was offline in Spring of 2022. As a temporary measure here is a link to a backup file from January 2021. It is unclear how much the Registry has been updated since then.
Research Note(s)
"Sailing dinghy for the 189ft LOA steam yacht Colonia, designed by Gardner & Cox and built in Chester, PA in 1899 for F. G. Bourne." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 28, 2009.)
"Sailing Dinghie. Frame spacing 7 1/2". Planking, white cedar 5/16" full lapped. Thwarts mahogany 7/8". Foot boards cypress 3/8". Deck mahogany 5/32", cedar 5/32". All trimmings to be of mahogany. For details, see [drawing] 79-85 [rigging details]. Sailplan 130-82. July 1901 [when built]. [For:] Colonia. Steam Yacht owned by Mr. Bourne [as per notes on plan 28-22]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
"Plan 28-22 (formerly 76-32) from which this boat was built was drawn 1901-07." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 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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