News
HMM News
August 6, 2020
The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America's Cup Hall of Fame welcomes Peter Montgomery and Ed Baird to the America's Cup Hall of Fame as inductees for the Class of 2021.
July 17, 2020
Read on for details about when and how you can visit, what we are doing to keep visitors safe, and July opening hours
June 11, 2020
Update - RELIANCE and a large collection of artifacts have returned to HMM from Germany!
May 28, 2020
Follow up questions from last week's live tour and interview at HMM
The Current
Winter 2017 /2018 2019 - 2017 in review, updates on the collection, the STEAM program, and winter lectures.
Upcoming Events
Postponed: In this presentation, Ms. Katz and Dr. Rhode will talk about three of the most important episodes in pre-modern Indian maritime history.
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After reading a very short article in the Bristol Phoenix about a Prudence Island, our curator, Evelyn Ansel, is lead to consider a very specific moment in time and spend a lot more time digging in the archives! She headed back into the Herreshoff vault to create a two-part series into the origins of the Marconi rig on HMCo. boats.
This week, the first part explores that party on Prudence Island, the RESOLUTE (HMCo. #725) syndicate, RELIANCE (HMCo. #605), America’s Cup, WWI, band leaders and firefighters, radio towers, and the NY50 class (specifically CAROLINA II, HMCo. #721 and GRAYLING, HMCo. #715 ).
Next week we’ll discuss what happened next: Marconi rigs and HMCoI.
Read the full article ➡️ buff.ly/3hZanjv
Photo of Reliance from the Library of Congress and Photo of Grayling SPNEA from Historic New England, Stebbins collection
This Week in Herreshoff History: We remember the Hurricane of 1938 – photos from our archive and links to some incredible historic footage from the actual hurricane – and discuss winter storage and maintaining the ways at HMCo.
Step back in time with us ➡️ herreshoff.org/2020/09/this-week-in-herreshoff-history-september-24/
This Week in Herreshoff History: We remember the Hurricane of 1938 – photos from our archive and links to some incredible historic footage from the actual hurricane – and discuss winter storage and maintaining the ways at HMCo.⠀
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Step back in time with us via the link in our profile. ⠀
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The health and safety of our patrons and staff means the world to us. Because of the continuing risk of Covid-19, we have decided to reimagine the 2020 Reliance Gala into a virtual event. ⠀
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This event will take place on December 10th, 2020. A detailed event program and online tickets will be available soon. We look forward to gathering together our community, even if only virtually. ⠀
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Please join us for an exciting, thoughtfully curated, celebratory hour! Stay tuned at herreshoff.org ⠀
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#Herreshoff #Gala #VirtualEvent #HerreshoffMarineMuseum
A new perspective on the lines of the R-Boat thanks to @BlockIslandSteve in this month's IYRS Classic Yacht Regatta held in Newport, Rhode Island. ⠀
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Gamecock(@gamecocksailing) a 1925 Herreshoff R-Class Racing Sloop owned by Peter McClennen. McClennen enjoys the camaraderie of classic yacht ownership especially among the local fleet of smaller day-sailors. "It is my dream to see even more boats and events on the water to keep this momentum and camaraderie going."⠀
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Photo: @BlockIslandSteve
This Week in Herreshoff History: A sneak preview of next week’s “From the Vault” post about this mystery boat and a clambake on Prudence Island. We also learn about the founding of the HMCo. fire brigade and get a visit from the steam yacht IOLANDA with the help of a few little Herreshoff launches.⠀
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Can you identify in the comments below:⠀
- The vessel and the year from the Prudence Island Clambake? (1st photo)⠀
- Which HMCo. vessel appears on the fire brigade badge? Hint: the badge is from 1904!) (2nd Photo)⠀
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“The museum did such a great job this year. On one hand, it was odd not having the events, but on the other hand, this really brought out the pure nature of sailing," - Peter McClennen about this year's Herreshoff Classic Regatta.⠀
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Results and a recap of the events can be found on our website (link in profile).⠀
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📸: Jens Lange of Baltic Boatworks⠀
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This week in Code Flag Lima news! We highlight a recent artifact acquisition at HMM - a beautiful cast signal bell assembly from the 1910s, a debate over Rhode Island style clam chowder and a broadside from the Rocky Point - that’s #1871 friends, not #1971 - a little Labor Day history, swimming off the pier (again) and one last celebration of the successful 1920 America’s Cup defense by RESOLUTE. As always, head on over to Herreshoff.org/Lima/ to learn the story behind each of these wonderful images!
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