Herreshoff #192003ep [Owner Launch for Guinevere]

"Herreshoff is building four small sloops for members of the Beverly-Yacht Club, which will be raced on Buzzards Bay. Thomas W. Slocum is having a sloop of the 'S' class built by Herreshoff, the six-meter boat [Sheila #861s] from the designs of W. Sterling Burgess for Paul Hammond is planked and the launches for Edgar Palmer's new auxiliary schooner Guinivere, building at Lawley's, are completed." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, April 10, 1921, p. 59.)

"There are 4 small boats carried on deck [of Edgar Palmer's Lawley-built schooner Guinevere], built by Herreshoff at Bristol. A life boat, a gig and 2 launches. The crew's launch has a 4-cylinder Speedway and the owner's a GR Sterling.
The illustration shows the owner's launch at full speed and is a regulation Herreshoff power tender for yacht use. [See #192004es Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10838, #192005es Sailing Lifeboat for Guinevere Job10839, #192003ep Owner Launch for Guinevere, and #192004ep Crew Launch for Guinevere.]" (Source: Anon. "Guinevere." Rudder, October 1921, p. 6.)

"[Item Description:] Decided to lengthen #725s RESOLUTE's new mast by 3ft, please advise about increase of mainsail hoist, #301p MAGISTRATE engines being inspected right now but may not use her at all if we charter a steamer as tender for RESOLUTE, regarding S boats, [James] Swan informs me that the last one was completed in just over ten days, also, that Vincent is not on that job, but is doing well building 12-footers, your guess about George [Nichols] having spent $10,000 is hardly sufficient, his figures now run pretty close to $25,000, this includes a suit of sails from Ratsey, costing $10,000, Swazey picked up two orders for launches when at Palm Beach [possibly #192003ep and #192004ep, two launches for Edgar M. Palmer's schooner GUINEVERE], and expects also a house boat, all work, to be done next summer, am glad [Sherman] Hoyt seems to think VANITIE is going to clean up RESOLUTE." (Source: Emmons, Robert W. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_26850. Subject Files, Folder 7, formerly 90-95. 1920-03-04.)
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"[Item Description:] Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc. Tentative Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 1920. Tentative Comparative Balance sheet as at December 31, 1920 and 1919. Tentative Condensed Statement of Profit and Loss for Year Ended December 31, 1920. Including detailed profitabilty statements for several contracts including #367p Launch for St. Y. CORSAIR III for J.P. Morgan [loss of $20.71], #372p VASANTA for G. M. Pynchon [loss of $2,362.72], #373p ADOLAR for August Heckscher [loss of $1,277.95], #374p ALERT for Charles A. Stone [loss of $17,652.54], #375p PETUNIA for Henry L. Tiffany [loss of $2,122.67], #376p ESLOMA for William H. Vandervoort [loss of $5,244.00], #827s OHONKARA for Carll Tucker [profit of $3,257.44], 16 S-Boats [#850s ELLEN, #828s GOB, #851s MONSOON, #830s SPINSTER, #831s PAPOOSE, #832s WOODCHUCK, #833s CHEERIO, #834s WIDGEON, #835s KAJEE, #836s DAPHNIA, #837s DOODAH, #838s TEATICKET, #844s VANT, #845s SWALLOW, #846s FANO, #849s CIMA: loss of $7,548.16 (i.e. $471.76 per boat on a sales price of $2,450)], 8 Buzzards Bay Boats 12 1/2s [#829s FALCON, #839s SHELDRAKE, #840s OPITSAH, #841s MISTRAL II, #842s JABBERWOCK, #843s BULLRUSH, #847s PENGUIN, #848s DOODLE BUG: loss of $819.48], 4 small boats for yacht Edgar Palmer [GUINEVERE #192005es, #192003ep, #192004ep, #192004es: loss of $3,839.25]. [These documents found / filed with 'Tentative Financial Statements for the Period from January 1, 1923 to June 27, 1923.']" (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50660. Financial Statement. Subject Files, Folder [no #], formerly 124?. No date (after 1920-12-31).)
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"[Item Description:] Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc. Statement Of Palmer Boats Contracts 10836 [#192003ep] - 7 [#192004ep] -8 [#192004es] as at December 31, 1920, showing considerable losses" (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_59010. Financial Statement. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder [no #], formerly 254?. 1920-12-31.)
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"[Item Description:] am enclosing [HMCo] profit and loss statement for 1920, will analyse Palmer contract [#192003ep, #192004ep, #192004es], 'The showing certainly is discouraging, and the heavy loss on the Stone boat [#374p ALERT] shows what dawdling and not completing a contract on time will do. Also, I am surprised to see what a heavy loss we made on the S boats [#828s, #830s, #831s, #832s, #833s, #834s, #835s, #836s, #837s, #838s, #844s, #845s, #846s, #849s, #850s, #851s]'. [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Emmons, Robert W. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_59030. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder [no #], formerly 254?. 1921-01-14.)
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"For Guinevere, as per plan 2-101 and Rudder October 1921, p. 6 (Owner launch). Guinevere was a 195' LOA, 165' LWL three-mast schooner that had been launched on April 21, 1921 at Lawley's Yard in Neponset, Boston for Edgar Palmer." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"30'-5 1/2" x 7'-1" Owners Launch for the Palmer Yacht. R.E.W. [Apparently drawn by Ralph E. Winslow.] ASdeWH June 30, 1920. [Approved by.] Job No. 10836. Frames Spaced 3 1/2", use moulds of #277 [Isabel] in book for #276 [Launch for S. Y. Intrepid, Model 0419] but with gunwales brought in and sheer raised as in pencil in book as as per above offsets. Keel white oak 5" x 1 3/8" tapers for'd from #12. False keel white oak 2 3/8" thick. Stem white oak about 4[?]" wide. Timbers white oak moulded 1 1/8", sided as per table. Planking 5[?]/16" cedar + 5/16" full mahogany. Stern board 3/8" teak varnished. Clamps O.P. in 3 sections 1 7/8" x 2[?] 3/4" tapering to 1 7/8" x 1 7[?]/8" under forward and after decks. Deck beams generally 1 1[?]/2" x 3/4" white oak or ash, crown 6" in 9'-6". Deck 5/16" cedar + 5/16" teak, varnished. Coaming 5/8" teak 5 3/4" above deck. Water tight bulkheads 5/16" cedar + 5/16" cedar. B'H'D stiffeners 1 1/2" x 3/4" white oak spaced 9 1/2". Florring teak slats 1/2" thick x 1 1/4" wide. Floor beams 1 1/2" x 3/4". Seats, teak slats 1 1/2" x 1/4[?]", edge rail 2 1/4" x 1 [?]" [as per notes on plan 2-101]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 17, 2009.]

"This vessel's contract date was estimated from the original plan date. Plan 2-101 from which this boat was built was drawn 1920-06-30. The vessel's job number 10836 was assigned ca. 1920-06-30." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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