Herreshoff Yachts: Seven Generations of Industrialists, Inventors, and Ingenuity

by Richard V. Simpson

Overview

From 1893 to 1920, Bristol's Herreshoff clan designed and built so many undefeated America's Cup sailboats that enthusiasts refer to the era as The Herreshoff Period. In this intimate portrait, Simpson tackles the achievements of a New England dynasty that has attained the pinnacle of sailing fame and success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596293069
Publisher:	History Press, The
Publication date:	07/24/2007
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	542,470
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Richard V. Simpson is a native Rhode Islander who has always lived within walking distance to Narragansett Bay; first in the Edgewood section of Cranston and in Bristol, where he has lived since 1960. A graphic designer by trade, he has worked in advertising, printing, display and textile design studios. After retiring in 1996 from a twenty-nine-year Federal Civil Service career with the U.S. Navy in Newport, he began a second career as an author of books on subjects of historical interest in Rhode Island's East Bay, with his principal focus on Bristol. This is Richard's sixteenth published title and the third with America's Cup yachts as its subject. He continues as a contributing editor for the national monthly Antiques & Collecting Magazine, in which eighty-five of his articles have appeared, a position he has enjoyed since 1985. Bristol's famous Independence Day celebration and parade has also been the subject of Richard's pen. His 1989 Independence Day is the singular authoritative book on the subject, and his many anecdotal Fourth of July articles have appeared in the local Bristol Phoenix and the Providence Journal.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Halsey C. Herreshoff     7
Acknowledgements     9
Introduction     11
Divining the Herreshoff Name     15
Nineteenth-century Connections     19
John Brown Herreshoff (1841-1915)     25
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848-1938)     33
Twentieth-century Connections     45
Shipshape 'n' Bristol Fash'n     55
Genealogy of the Gloriana     57
The Gloriana's Victory was Captain Nat's Triumph     61
Herreshoff's Swift Sailors     67
The J Boats (1930-1937)     73
The Herreshoffs and the Motorcar     81
The Reliance, Winner of the America's Cup in 1903     87
The Coil Boiler     91
Torpedo Boats     93
Foreign Government Craft     113
The NC-4     117
Transitions     127
Gleanings     131
Herreshoff Marine Museum and America's Cup Hall of Fame     141
Appendix     147
Notes     149
Bibliography     151
About the Author     155