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Herreshoff #191607ep [Unbuilt High Speed Runabout Launch]

Particulars

Name: [Unbuilt High Speed Runabout Launch]
Type: High Speed Launch
Designed by: NGH
Not built, not assigned, cancelled, etc.: 1916-4
LOA: 32' 10" (10.01m)
LWL: 32' 0" (9.75m)
Beam: 10' 0" (3.05m)
Displ.: 6,666 lbs (3,024 kg)
Propulsion: Gasoline
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 #1401Model number: 1401
Model location: H.M.M. Workshop North Wall Left a

Vessels from this model:
0 built, modeled by NGH
#191607ep [Unbuilt High Speed Runabout Launch] (1916)
#191602ep [Unbuilt 50ft Patrol Boat] (1916)
#191606ep [Unbuilt 70ft Patrol Boat] (1916)

Original text on model:
"Model by NGH about 1913 [sic. 1916?]
Suggestion for high speed launch" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

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

Main drawing Dwg 005-171 (HH.5.00385) Explore all drawings relating to this boat. Explore castings relating to this boat (if available).

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  1. Dwg 005-171 (HH.5.00385): General Arrangement > Preliminary for 33' Runabout Launch, 33' O.A. (1916-05-31)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde (see individual drawing's info for more information about these).
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

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Archival Documents

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