William T. Hart

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Type: Schooner

Year: 1883

Builder: John Agnew Co.

Location: Alexandria

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	1	8888.0096.0000.00	documents	Lumber Industry Documents:BackgroundThe mate				Lumber Industry Documents:BackgroundThe material in this collection was acquired by purchase from various sources. It consists of two receipts, a time-keeper's book, a book listing lumber sales and shipments, a ledger of 304 pages, and a sheet found in the time-keepers book listing expenses for trips.Scope and ContentThe two receipts are dated 28 September and 30 November 1829 and refer to the receipt on board the sloops Eagle and True Guide of stated quantities of corded oak wood. In both cases the oak wood is for Justes Lowery, apparently of Hall's Landing. The only information about the vessels and Lowery is that contained in the receipts themselves. The location of Hall's Landing is not known.The book listing lumber sales and shipments by K. C. Rice of Craddockville, VA, dates from August 1916 to April 1918, and describes the transactions in detail. Craddockville is located at the head of Craddock Creek, about four miles west northwest of Belle Haven, VA. Most of the lumber, which largely consisted of 35- to 75-foot pilings or "sticks", was shipped by rail, although some was rafted. There are frequent references to Pennsylvania Railroad "car" numbers. Shipments were mostly from such Eastern Shore of Virginia points as Birds Nest Station, Nassawadox Station, Eastville Station, and Machipongo Station. Destinations included Newark and Harrison, NJ, Boston, MA, Buffalo, NY, and Mahanoy City, PA. Some of the "sticks" were sold under contract to the U. S. Government.The time-keeper's book covers the period from April 1910 through October 1910 and November 1912. It lists K. C. and John W. Rice, as well as a number of other employees. It gives the number of days worked per month. Each month is divided into two parts. Although the printed format contains a column for pay "rate per day", no rates are entered, nor is there an entry in the column for total amounts paid. The name K. C. Rice has been entered on the flyleaf at the back of the book.The ledger, which apparently is from the L. J. Houston & Co. of Stockton, MD, covers the period from January 1902 through December 1907. Stockton lies about eleven miles south of Snow Hill, MD, and about three miles north of the Virginia border. The ledger reflects monetary entries for a number of individuals and organizations whose names are shown in an alphabetical index at the front of the volume. In addition, sections of the ledger at pp. 193-209 and 302-304 list weekly rental income for 1909-1910 and1904-1906 respectively.One BoxFolder 1- Two receipts: (1) dated 28 Sept 1829 for eighteen and one half cords of oak wood received on board the sloop True Guide at Hall's Landing by W.	No image URL.	View
	2	8888.0018.0000.00	documents	Ernest Tucker (1913 - 1981) Papers (1936 - 1979)		Range, Exa 01/01/1936 - 12/31/1979		Ernest Tucker (1913 - 1981) Papers (1936 - 1979)The collection is comprised of correspondence, newspaper articles, brochures, etc., concerning Ernest Tucker's career as a boat designer and sailor. Also included are photographs of Tucker-designed boats, power and sailing boatsand Chesapeake Bay boatbuilders. The papers were donated to the Museum by his widow, Jane Foster Tucker.Biographical BackgroundErnest Tucker was born on the family estate, Hilton, in Walbrook, a northwestern section of Baltimore. He contracted polio before the age of 2 and was required to wear braces on both legs.Tucker developed a strong interest in boatbuilding and design from an early age. He built his first boat, a 12'5" sailing skiff when only twelve. He attended Johns Hopkins University, School of Mechanical Engineering, 1933-1938.In 1942:, he was employed by the Owens Yacht Co., Dundalk, as project engineer for 36' LCVP's for the Navy. After the war he designed the Owens 40' auxiliary cutter. In 1946 Tucker started at the Annapolis Yacht Yard as draughtsman (which later was sold to John Trumphy and Sons) and worked on many famous boats such as Makarra and Lenore, a famous Presidential yacht.Tucker purchased his beloved double-ended Nassau-built sloop, Half Pint, in 1945, which he used to sail the Bay until the time of his death. In 1958 he became self-employed. His designs included the Dickerson 35, 36, 40 and 41 for the William Dickerson Yard of Fishing Creek (laterTrappe). Always found on the drawings was his trademark, a flying duck. Tucker also made drawings for John Bailey of Tunis Mills, Marine Contractor.After the death of his mother, Ernest Tucker lived on a houseboat in Galesville, Md., was married in 1960, and in 1962 moved to Oxford. The designer was a good friend of C. Lowndes Johnson, noted Talbot County Comet class designer, and his wife Clara. He was a founding member of the Classic Yacht Club of America, member of the Sailing Club of the Chesapeake, and Tred Avon Yacht Club. Ernest Tucker died in August 1981.Scope and ContentThe material is divided into two parts. The first consists of biographical information and information on boats designed by Ernest Tucker. Included in the latter is the well-known series of Dickerson ketches built by DickersonBoatbuilders of Trappe, Maryland. Other designs include deadrise workboats built by Chesapeake Marine Industries of Trappe, and the famous Owens cutters.Ernest Tucker was also a recorder of many varities of sailing and power crafton the Chesapeake through the medium of the camera. Many of these boats no longer exist. Also of value are photographs of many well-known Bay boatbuilders, particularly from Dorchester County. An index of boats is available. The photographs have been divided up into broad subject categories.SubjectsBoatdesigning Boatbuilding Subject: Mrs Ernest Tucker	No image URL.	View
	3	8888.0054.0000.00	documents	THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas		Exact 01/01/1981 - 12/31/1993		THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas C.Gillmer was born in 1911 at Warren, Ohio. He became interested in ships at an early age, entering the U.S. Naval Academy and graduating in 1935. During the late 1930s he served aboard light cruisers in the Pacific and Mediterranean. During World War II he served as an instructor in naval construction, damage control, and marine engineering at the Naval Academy, eventually becoming chairman of the naval engineering department. In 1952 Gillmer wrote Naval Construction a Ship Stability, a basic text still in use in the naval architecture program at the Academy. He retired from active teaching at the Academy in 1967 and began to devote full time to the design of yachts and ship replicas. His first successful yacht design was the 1946 Blue Moon. Subsequent designs were the Southern Cross and Seawind series. He designed Pride of Baltimore 3,(1976-77), the pungy Lady Maryland (1979), and Pride 2L Baltimore 11. (1988). Most recently Gillmer prepared a study of the USS Constitution for her overhaul by the navy. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.See also Oral History tape No. 93 with transcript and list of books and articles.The manuscript collection consists of six papers:1. "Signposts Towards the Origin of Ship Design," prepared for the 5th Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, 1 October 1981.2. "Evolving Ship Design Technology As Revealed in Wrecks of Post Medieval Ships." 3rd International Symposium of Boat and Ship Archeology, Stockholm, 1982.3. "Authentic Replica Ships: Theory and Practice." International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Delphi, Greece, August 1987.4. "The Importance of Skeleton First Ship Construction to the Development of Rational Ship Design." International Symposium on Ship and Boat Archeology, Amsterdam 1988.5. "The Second Pride of Baltimore, Her Design and Construction." 9th Sailing Yacht Symposium, Annapolis 1989.6. "USS Constitution: An Assessment for Her Future." Naval History Symposium, Annapolis 1993. Subject: Thomas C Gillmer	No image URL.	View
	4	8888.0084.0000.00	documents	Hooper Strait Lighthouse Research Notes:Backgr	Plummer, Ellen K & Norman __Author	Exact 01/01/2000 -		Part of this collection is in CSC FF 60 (Engineering drawings) and CSC 16E1 (personnel rosters)Hooper Strait Lighthouse Research Notes:BackgroundIn 2000 the Museum published a history of the Hooper Strait Light Station from its inception in 1827 through its acquisition by the Museum in 1967. The history, Beacons of Hooper Strait (St. Michaels: CBMM 2000), was prepared by Norman H. Plummer based on extensive research at the National Archives, the DorchesterCounty courthouse, and the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.Scope and ContentThe collection contains Plummer's research notes largely taken at the National Archives from Record Group (RG) 26. RG 26 includes most of the federal government's records pertaining to light vessels, lighthouses, buoys and other fixed navigation aids, and tenders operated by the lighthouse services. These services included the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury and Acting Commissioner of Revenue, 1820-1852 (Stephen Pleasonton); the Light House Board, 1852-1903; the Light House Service, 1903-1910; the Bureau of Lighthouses within the Department of Commerce, 1910-1939; the US Coast Guard, 1939-present. In addition to the handwritten research notes, the collection includes a number of photocopies of letters between the keepers of Hooper Straits Lighthouse (HSLH) and the Superintendent of Lights at Baltimore; between the superintendent and the Light House Board; deeds for the lighthouse site; reports of inspection by the superintendent; logs of the HSLH.	No image URL.	View
	5	8888.0060.0000.00	documents	Feuchter Manuscript Collection	Feuchter, Louis J __Creator ||Feuchter, Walter J __Creator	1896-1992		A two part manuscript collection relating to Artists Louis J. and Walter J Feuchter. <br />The main focus is on Louis Feuchter including artwork with series two being about his brother Walter who is lesser known.	No image URL.	View
	6	1999.0002.0001.00	models	Builder's half model of Quadrant class sloop, moun	Hartge, Laurence W __Creator	Range, Exa 01/01/1952 - 01/01/1953	Hartge Yacht Yard - Galesville - MD	Builder's half model of Quadrant class sloop, mounted with two screws onto masonite back board; hull painted red and white, grey sails and red keel and rudder paitned onto backboard; in pencil "ORIGINAL/ QUADRANT/ MODEL/ WINTER/ 1952-53/ 1ST QUADRANT BUILT 1953/ L HARTGE/ 1952"; 3 holes for mounting to wall. Laurence Hartge was known for conceiving "economy yacht" style vessels to make these vessels more easily available to sailors. The Quadrant Class sloops were deemed to be Condition: Paint worn in places, surface dirt, corners of backboard chipped. Material: Wood (pine?), masonite, paint, screws. Made by donor-designer of Quadrant class sloop built by Hartge Yacht Yard.		View
	7	8888.0098.0000.00	papers	Burgess manuscript collection				This collection is housed in 24 boxes, starting on CSC 15A2 and continuing on to 15A3, 15A4, 16A1, and 16A2<CR><CR>The collection is broad in scope and content. It includes about 100 trailboards and name boards, and many other artifacts obtained from Chesapeake Bay vessels of all kinds; years of correspondence (covered in this finding aid), much of it acquiring background for and arranging the publication of his books, particularly those about the schooners Albert F. Paul and Purnell T. White; many of his photographs; and numerous clippings containing articles by and about Burgess.Among the highlights of the collection are a number of documents from the late 19th century such as invoices, receipts, and note from George P. Bailey, of Kinsale, VA, a dealer in wood, ties, etc., and the canner of the "Pride of Westmoreland" brand tomatoes and commission merchants Courtney & Kennan (see Box 17). Also, the lengthy correspondence (1946-1969) with the Baltimore Sunday Sun about articles Burgess submitted for publication, including the ""I Remember When" series (Boxes 19 & 20)	No image URL.	View
	8	1976.0042.0001.00	ships plans	20' Catboat	Kleinschmidt, J __Creator	Circa 01/01/1959 -		Plan for a 20' catboat by Charles Ferguon of Groton CT. Drawn by J. Kleinschmidt from Mystic half model. Blueline copy. Collected by Chapelle		View
	9	1969.0050.0001.00	swan decoys	Tundra swan decoy	Barnes, Samuel T __Creator ||Holly, James T __Creator	Circa 1890		Tundra Swan decoy, by Sam Barnes or James Holly of Havre de Grace. Number one of a small series of swan decoys by this maker; number three of this series is in collection of the Shelburne Museum; the second is in a private collection. Condition: Fair, repair work to neck, paint chipped from tail, crack in back repaired w/wood putty. See Decoy Magazine (March/April 2007), pp. 42-3; also Decoy Magazine (March/April 1993) pp. 9-10 for discussion of the maker of this decoy.		View