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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938) was an American naval architect, mechanical engineer, and yacht design innovator. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 63 relations: Alexander Smith Cochran, Aluminium, Amaryllis (catamaran), America's Cup, APc-1-class transport, Arcadia Publishing, Associated Press, Bristol, Rhode Island, Bronze, Catamaran, Centennial Exposition, Charles F. Herreshoff, Charleston, South Carolina, Columbia (1899 yacht), Corliss steam engine, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Defender (1895 yacht), Dobbs Ferry, New York, Dynamo, Galvanic corrosion, Genesta, Google Books, Halsey Chase Herreshoff, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney, Helianthus III, Herreshoff 12½, Herreshoff Bull's Eye, Herreshoff Marine Museum, Internet Archive, J. P. Morgan, James Brown Herreshoff, Jay Gould, John Brown Francis Herreshoff, L. Francis Herreshoff, Larchmont, New York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical engineering, Narragansett Bay, Nathanael Greene, National Sailing Hall of Fame, Naval architecture, Philadelphia, Providence, Rhode Island, Reliance (yacht), Resolute (yacht), Safety valve, Spar torpedo, Steamboat, Steel, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. America's Cup yacht designers
  3. Engineers from Rhode Island
  4. Herreshoff family
  5. Multihull designers

Alexander Smith Cochran

Alexander Smith Cochran (February 28, 1874 – June 20, 1929) was a manufacturer, sportsman and philanthropist from Yonkers, New York.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Amaryllis (catamaran)

Amaryllis was a catamaran sailboat designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and launched in 1876.

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America's Cup

The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport.

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APc-1-class transport

APc-1-class small coastal transports were a troopship design used during World War 2 for the United States Navy (USN).

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Arcadia Publishing

Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bristol, Rhode Island

Bristol is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States, as well as the county seat.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

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Catamaran

A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.

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Centennial Exposition

The Centennial International Exhibition, officially the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876.

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Charles F. Herreshoff

Charles Frederick Herreshoff II (May 28, 1880 – January 31, 1954) was an American automobile designer and manufacturer. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and Charles F. Herreshoff are Herreshoff family.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Columbia (1899 yacht)

Columbia was an American racing yacht built in 1899 for the America's Cup races.

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Corliss steam engine

A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt III

Brigadier General Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (September 5, 1873 – March 1, 1942) was an American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman.

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Defender (1895 yacht)

Defender was the victorious United States defender of the tenth America's Cup in 1895 against challenger Valkyrie III.

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Dobbs Ferry, New York

Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States.

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Dynamo

284110) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator.

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Galvanic corrosion

Galvanic corrosion (also called bimetallic corrosion or dissimilar metal corrosion) is an electrochemical process in which one metal corrodes preferentially when it is in electrical contact with another, in the presence of an electrolyte.

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Genesta

Genesta was the unsuccessful English challenger in the fifth America's Cup in 1885 against the American defender Puritan.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Halsey Chase Herreshoff

Halsey Chase Herreshoff (born 1933) is a naval architect of production and custom yachts, sailor and former president of Herreshoff Marine Museum. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and Halsey Chase Herreshoff are American naval architects, American yacht designers and Herreshoff family.

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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family.

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Harry Payne Whitney

Harry Payne Whitney (April 29, 1872 – October 26, 1930) was an American businessman, thoroughbred horse breeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.

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Helianthus III

The Helianthus III was a yacht, built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848–1938) in 1924.

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Herreshoff 12½

The Herreshoff 12½ Footer is a one-design keelboat.

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Herreshoff Bull's Eye

The Herreshoff Bull's Eye or Bullseye, is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and first built in 1914.

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Herreshoff Marine Museum

The Herreshoff Marine Museumis a maritime museum in Bristol, Rhode Island dedicated to the history of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, yachting, and America's Cup.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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J. P. Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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James Brown Herreshoff

James Brown F. Herreshoff (1834–1930) was an American inventor and chemist with a number of American patents related to chemicals and filed in the 1900s and 1910s: a coil-stream boiler, keels used on racing yachts, sliding seats on rowboats, mercurial anti-fouling paint, an apparatus for measuring heat of gases. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and James Brown Herreshoff are Herreshoff family.

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Jay Gould

Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty.

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John Brown Francis Herreshoff

John Brown Francis Herreshoff (February 7, 1850 – January 30, 1932) was second winner of the Perkin Medal. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and John Brown Francis Herreshoff are Herreshoff family.

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L. Francis Herreshoff

L. (Lewis) Francis Herreshoff (November 11, 1890 – December 1972), was a boat designer, naval architect, editor, and author of books and magazine articles. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and L. Francis Herreshoff are American yacht designers, engineers from Rhode Island and Herreshoff family.

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Larchmont, New York

Larchmont is an affluent village located within the Town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement.

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Narragansett Bay

Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering, of which is in Rhode Island.

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Nathanael Greene

Major-General Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

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National Sailing Hall of Fame

The Sailing Museum and National Sailing Hall of Fame is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes sailing and racing by recognizing individuals who have contributed to the sport, highlighting sailing's contribution to the American culture; and demonstrating its value as a hands-on tool for teaching math and science.

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Naval architecture, or naval engineering, is an engineering discipline incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation of marine vessels and structures.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Reliance (yacht)

Reliance was the 1903 America's Cup defender designed by Nat Herreshoff.

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Resolute (yacht)

Resolute was a yacht designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters to contend the 1914 America's Cup.

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Safety valve

A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.

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Spar torpedo

A spar torpedo is a weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and attached to a boat.

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Steamboat

A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Sutton baronets

There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Sutton, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Tarantella (catamaran)

Tarantella was a sailing catamaran designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The San Francisco Call

The San Francisco Call (Post) was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California.

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Torpedo boats in the War of the Pacific

The introduction of fast torpedo boats in the late 19th century was a serious concern to navies of an era that saw a number of innovations in naval warfare, including the first torpedo boats, which carried spar torpedoes, steam propulsion and steel ships.

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USS Stiletto

USS Stiletto, a wooden torpedo boat, was launched in 1885 at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Rhode Island, as a private speculation.

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Vigilant (yacht)

Vigilant was the victorious United States defender of the eighth America's Cup in 1893 against British challenger ''Valkyrie II''.

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Westward (yacht)

Westward was an American racing yacht designed and launched by Nathanael Herreshoff on March 31, 1910.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt II

William Kissam Vanderbilt II (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.

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William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications.

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William Starling Burgess

William Starling Burgess (December 25, 1878 – March 19, 1947) was an American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and William Starling Burgess are America's Cup yacht designers and American yacht designers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yacht

A yacht is a sail- or motor-propelled watercraft used for pleasure, cruising, or racing.

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See also

America's Cup yacht designers

Engineers from Rhode Island

Herreshoff family

Multihull designers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathanael_Greene_Herreshoff

Also known as Captain Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, Herreschoff Manufacturing Company, Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Herreshoff yard, John B. Herreshoff, N.G. Herreshoff, Nat Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff I, Nathanael Herreshoff, Nathaniel G. Herreshoff, Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff.

, Sutton baronets, Tarantella (catamaran), The New York Times, The San Francisco Call, Torpedo boats in the War of the Pacific, USS Stiletto, Vigilant (yacht), Westward (yacht), William Kissam Vanderbilt II, William Randolph Hearst, William Starling Burgess, World War II, Yacht.