Mendota

Mariners' Museum, Uncurated Search Results

Type: Coast Guard Cutter

Year:

Builder:

Location:

Eastern Shore
Sailing Workboats

ESSW Home

Chesapeake Shipbuilding Project

These records are found in the online catalog of The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia. Uncurated search results are presented to give researchers and interested readers an idea of whether the museum’s archives contain information about this vessel and whether it may be worthwhile to visit the museum’s catalog search page for further investigation. Uncurated results may be inaccurate or incomplete.

Search mode: Exact Name. Search phrase(s): "Mendota". Results returned: 10. Results displayed in this table: 10.

Use these buttons to send uncurated search results to your own app or text document for further research. First, check the box for any row, or click "Select All" then uncheck any rows. Then click "Show Selections". You can then copy your selections from the text box and past them into your app.

Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1		1883-1931				USS Mendota (1863-1867), double-ender.	Steamboats–United States.	Copy negative of an illustration of the steamer.	MS0091/03.02-02#1937
	2		Circa 1930	Mendota (Cutter : 1929).; United States. Coast Guard.				Bodies of water–United States.; Boats and boating–United States.; Coasts–United States.	Shows the Mendota under way, from the stern. This is a coast guard cruising cutter.	P0010/-#77
	3		Circa 1930	Mendota (Tugboat : YT-33).; United States. Navy.				Dry docks–United States.; Boats and boating–United States.; Steamboats–United States.	Shows the USS Mendota in dry dock. This is a yard tug for the US Navy, serving in Washington DC. The life rings provide the name of the vessel.	P0010/-#87
	4								NOTES: The accession 1995.34 includes 377 models built by Joseph Schmitt between 1970 and 1989. The models range in size from less than one inch to ten inches to less than one inch are a combination of scratch-built, kit-built and a combination of the two. The collection documents ships ranging from the mid-19th century up through vessels dating to the mid-1980s. It includes naval ships of the United States, Italy, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Greece and France including carriers, destroyers, and naval auxiliaries. There are battleships of the Great White Fleet (including the never-built late Iowa and Montana classes) and even one Russian ice-breaker. There are Civil War monitors, container and cargo ships, passenger liners and cruise ships, combination vessels, excursion boats, Chesapeake Bay ferries, Great Lakes and Wester River passenger and freight boats and tugs. There's even a model of Pier 53, one of the famous Chelsea Piers on the North River in New York and a lighthouse. MODEL NOTE: Furled sail at mast and gaff VESSEL INFORMATION- VESSEL NAME: MENDOTA ALL NAMES OF VESSEL: 1) MENDOTA NATIONALITY: AMERICAN HOME PORT: VESSEL TYPE: CARGO-PASSENGER STEAMSHIP OFFICIAL NUMBER: HULL NUMBER: VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 193 x 30; 709 TONS SERVICE DATES: 1857- SHIPBUILDER: SHIPBUILDER LOCATION: ENGINE BUILDER: ENGINE BUILDER LOCATION: SHIP OWNERS: SHIP LINE OR OPERATOR: D. RICHMOND CAPTAINS OR OTHER RELATED PEOPLE: MAJOR EVENTS: VESSEL HISTORY: DATE WRECKED: PLACE OF WRECKING: ASSOCIATED (RELATED?) PLACES: GREAT LAKES RELATED VESSELS:	CL24728
	5	No image URL.							VESSEL INFORMATION-- VESSEL NAME: USS MENDOTA VESSEL TYPE: wooden double-ended side-wheel gunboat SERVICE DATES: 1863- SHIP BUILDER: F.Z. Tucker BUILDER LOCATION: Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York VESSEL HISTORY: Vessel had 2-100 pounder Parrott rifles, 4-IX inch Dahlgren S.B., 2-20 pounder Dahlgren rifles, 2-24 pounder Dahlgren rifles. Vessel was sold out of service at Philadelphia on December 7th, 1876 for $18,750. Her original cost was $155,000. SHIP OWNERS: U.S. Government ENGINE BUILDER AND LOCATION: D. McLeod of South Brookyn, New York VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 205'(length) x 35'(beam) x 8'9"(draft); 974 Tons; one inclined, surface condensing engine with 58" cylinder & 8'9" stroke	CL20594
	6	No image URL.	1/23/1865	Mendota (Screw gunboat : 1864).; United States. Navy–Personnel management.		Hampton Roads (Va. : Region).			One-page document from Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles detaching Isaac Newton from “special duty” in New York to Hampton Roads. Once in Hampton Roads, Newton is to report to Admiral David D. Porter for duty on board the USS Medota.	MS0013/01-002.02#01
	7	No image URL.	1/26/1865	United States. Navy Department.; Mendota (Screw gunboat : 1864).		United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865.			Two-page letter from Isaac Newton to the Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles. The letter is in draft form and states that Newton is resigning his commission in the U.S. Navy for health reasons.	MS0013/01-002.03#01
	8								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Rigid wing sail designed for a Baker Manufacturing Company hydrofoil. The wing and flap are approximately 17 feet high. The large wing is 43-1/2" wide and 8-1/2" depth overall (at leading edge). The small flap is 20-1/8" wide and 2-1/2" depth overall (at leading edge). The wing and flap were originally covered with canvas like an airplane wing. The canvas had deteriorated over the years and had to be removed. It is currently covered with 3-mil Clysar, a clear plastic heat shrink film. Baker Mfg called this a "100-SS Rigid Sail." It was based on the cross section of a NACA 6712 airfoil modified for a flap (NACA was the predecessor of NASA and evidently developed 50 or so 4-digit versions of wing cross sections). The 4 numbers stamped on the sail are the code for chord length etc. that can be fed directly into computations for accuracy. NOTES: [Lyles Forbes, November 10, 2000] MONITOR is the world's first successful hydrofoil-stabilized sailboat, having set a speed record in 1955 of over 30mph on Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. She was part of a successful scientific research program on hydrofoils sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. MONITOR was designed and engineered by Mr. John Gordon Baker of the Baker Manufacturing Company of Evansville, Wisconsin, and donated to the museum in 1979. She measures 26 feet LOA, 5 feet beam without the foils, and 21 feet 6 inches with the foils. There are two ladderfoils forward of amidships and one ladderfoil aft used for steering and lift. There exists in the files a research review by Baker for the O.N.R. in August 1957 entitled, "The Flying Sailboat." The hull lifts clear of the water once the wind has exceeded 13 knots. She is able to clear 2-1/2 feet above the water. To keep the boat from pitching, the rear foil is coupled to the mast. As the forces on the sails increase, mechanical linkages serve to reduce the angle of attack. In order to steer, the rear foil is rotated about an upright axis, and controlled by a steering wheel in the cockpit, connected through reduction gears to the rear foil. In addition to her standard set of full-batten sails, there is also a hard-wing sail donated as well. The hard wing measures about 3 feet 6 inches from leading edge to trailing edge, and is roughly 17 feet in length. Her traditional mainsail measures about 27 feet along the luff, 30 feet along the leach, and 13 feet along the foot. The jibsail measures 14 feet 1 inch along the luff, 16 feet 4 inches along the leach and 6 feet 1-1/2 inches along the foot. None of the photographs in the file show her under sail with the hard wing, nor is there any comment about either having tested it or her performance using that configuration. Nevertheless, the wing was specifically designed for second version of MONITOR that would have used two rigid wing sails in place of the traditional mast and sail. VESSEL INFORMATION - BOAT TYPE: MONITOR, SAILING HYDROFOIL BOAT BUILT: 1958 MANUFACTURER: J. G. BAKER MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURER LOCATION: EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN BOAT DIMENSIONS: 30-0-0 (LENGTH OA), 21-0-0 (BEAM)	CL30658
	9								NOTES: The Water Cure, a large hotel-spa facility built by George P. Delaplaine and Elisha Burdick in 1854. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Reps, John William. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work: 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984, p. 4351. Deak, Gloria Gilda. Picturing America, 1497-1899. Prints, Maps and Drawings Bearing on The New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is Now the United States. From the I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection and Other Collections In the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Other Photographs of the New York Public Library. Volume I & II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988, p. 468-469, catalog 690. Stokes, I.N. Phelps and Daniel C. Haskell. American Historical Prints: early views of American Cities, etc. from the Phelps Stokes and other collections. New York: New York Public Library, 1933, p. 118.	CL19224
	10								SHORT DESCRIPTION: The hull is built of mahogany, glued together with hollow stainless steel ladder foils (two forward and one aft, in airplane configuration). The aft foil is used for steering as well as lift. The foils will lift the hull 2-1/2 feet above the water and the craft could attain speeds of over 30 knots without being affected by waves. NOTES: [Lyles Forbes, November 10, 2000] MONITOR is the world's first successful hydrofoil-stabilized sailboat, having set a speed record in 1955 of over 30mph on Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. She was part of a successful scientific research program on hydrofoils sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. MONITOR was designed and engineered by Mr. John Gordon Baker of the Baker Manufacturing Company of Evansville, Wisconsin, and donated to the museum in 1979. She measures 26 feet LOA, 5 feet beam without the foils, and 21 feet 6 inches with the foils. There are two ladderfoils forward of amidships and one ladderfoil aft used for steering and lift. There exists in the files a research review by Baker for the O.N.R. in August 1957 entitled, "The Flying Sailboat." The hull lifts clear of the water once the wind has exceeded 13 knots. She is able to clear 2-1/2 feet above the water. To keep the boat from pitching, the rear foil is coupled to the mast. As the forces on the sails increase, mechanical linkages serve to reduce the angle of attack. In order to steer, the rear foil is rotated about an upright axis, and controlled by a steering wheel in the cockpit, connected through reduction gears to the rear foil. In addition to her standard set of full-batten sails, there is also a hard-wing sail donated as well. The hard wing measures about 3 feet 6 inches from leading edge to trailing edge, and is roughly 20 feet in length. Her traditional mainsail measures about 27 feet along the luff, 30 feet along the leach, and 13 feet along the foot. The jibsail measures 14 feet 1 inch along the luff, 16 feet 4 inches along the leach and 6 feet 1-1/2 inches along the foot. None of the photographs in the file show her under sail with the hard wing, nor is there any comment about either having tested it or her performance using that configuration. Nevertheless, the wing was specifically designed for MONITOR. RIGID WING SAIL INFORMATION: Its called "100-SS Rigid Sail," and was based on the cross section of a NACA 6712 airfoil modified for a flap. NACA was the predecessor of NASA and evidently developed 50 or so 4-digit versions of wing cross sections. The 4 numbers are code for chord length etc. that can be fed directly into computations for accuracy. The sail and flap were covered with cloth "at a local airport following aircraft specifications. The bottom section was to be covered with a thin, clear plastic sheet for visibility." VESSEL INFORMATION - BOAT TYPE: MONITOR, SAILING HYDROFOIL BOAT BUILT: 1958 MANUFACTURER: J. G. BAKER MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURER LOCATION: EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN BOAT DIMENSIONS: 30-0-0 (LENGTH OA), 21-0-0 (BEAM) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Baker. "The Flying Sailboat". review for the O.N.R. August 1957; Alexander, Alan J.; Grogono, James L.; Nigg, Donald J. "Hydrofoil Sailing"; International Hydrofoil Society. Gordon Baker's Sailing Hydrofoil MONITOR website. http://www.foils.org/monitor.htm; See object file. INVENTORY: mast; boom; mainsail; jib; steering wheel; foil forward, port; foil, forward, starboard; foil, aft; one lot (4) blocks; One lot (6) blocks; Metal strip part. There are twenty-seven (27) component parts. These are items associated with this boat. Please see component parts supplemental record for additional information.	CL6375