Herreshoff #188303es [Large Boat for #400s Consuelo]
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Particulars
Type: Albatross Sailboat
Designed by: NGH
Launch: 1883
Construction: Wood
LOA: 10' 3" (3.12m)
Rig: Gaff
Sail Area: 49sq ft (4.6sq m)
Centerboard: No centerboard
Built for: Herreshoff, N. G.
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.
Images
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Stebbins, Nathaniel L. "Large Boat for #400s Consuelo [#188303es.]" Photograph (cropped detail), negative no. 2585, 1889.
Further Image Information
Created by: Stebbins, Nathaniel L.
Image Caption: Consuelo's large boat (in the background; cropped detail of a larger photo of Consuelo by Stebbins).
Negative Number: 2585
Image Date: 1889-8-19
Published in: Rudder March 1899, p. 68. (Also in: Palmer, Henry Robinson. "The Herreshoffs and Their Boats." New England Magazine, July 1895, p. 528.)
Collection: Historic New England (SPNEA) Collection, GUSN 277543.
Image is copyrighted: No
Model
Model number: 121
Vessels from this model:
23 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"No. 94 rowboat 1882-83 and many more 1887-88-89-90 and more
ALBATROSS JR." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Comment:
"Reference to Model 121 was added by CvdL because all other yacht tenders built by HMCo at the time were also built from this model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 13, 2019.)
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.
Documents
Archival Documents
"[Item Description:] Penciled note 'Bills payable' on recto. On verso penciled tabulated financial data titled 'Statement. Deposits in Dec[ember] 31st 1883' and containing what appears to be a calculation of NGH's net worth at the time. Including dollar valuations of various bank accounts, shareholdings in HMCo (125 shares valued at $12500) and two railroads, 'Amount invested in Love Rocks to date $9773.39', 'Estimated value of yacht CONSUELO [#400s] and small boats [#188302es, #188303es] $3000', 'Estimated value of catamaran LODOLA [#187903es] $700', 'Estimated value of Ice Boat and RIVIERA [#187406es] $90', 'Tools $120.00', 'Books, Furniture, etc. $500', '2 Patents, Catamaran and Regulator $100.00', '1/2 Patent Regulator $0.00'." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_65240. Note. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder 182?, formerly 133?. 1883-12-31.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #188303es [Large Boat for #400s Consuelo] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.
Supplement
Research Note(s)
"This boat was added to the HCR due presence of a sailplan in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Colleection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum 'for Conseuelo's small boat. 1886'. The boat is also shown hanging from the port side of Consuelo's davits. Measurements of a Stebbins photo with this tender suggest an LOA of 11ft 6inMost or all small boats built by HMCo at the time were Albatross rowboats built from plan 28-1 and from Model 121, leading to the assumption that this was also the case for this yacht tender. But note that no boat for Consuelo is mentioned on that plan (others are). It is not clear if this boat was built in 1883 together with Consuelo or in 1886 when the above mentioned sailplan was made." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 13, 2019.)
Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.
Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné.
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