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The Herreshoff Marine Museumis a maritime museum in
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dedicated to the history of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, yachting, and
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. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (1878–1945) was most notable for producing sailing yachts, including eight
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defenders, and steam-powered vessels. The museum, situated near
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on the grounds where the manufacturing company once stood, has a collection of over sixty boats including Nathanael Greene Herreshoff's ''Clara'', built in 1887,
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's ''Trivia'', and the 1992 IACC yacht, ''Defiant''. The Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Model Room contains over 500 yacht and steam yacht
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and the Rebecca Chase Herreshoff Library holds a collection of books and manuscripts related to the company, the Herreshoff family, and yachting. The museum also hosts symposia related to yacht design and operates a sailing school.


History

The museum was founded in 1971 by A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff and Rebecca Chase Herreshoff to preserve the accomplishments of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. In 1992, founded by
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. At the museum he and Edward duMoulin founded the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1992. Halsey is son o ...
and Edward duMoulin, the museum launched the America's Cup Hall of Fame to honor outstanding individuals of the America's Cup yacht race.


Works

Among other works, the company built Doris (Sailing yacht), which is listed on the U.S.
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.


See also

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Herreshoff family Members of the Herreshoff () family of Bristol, Rhode Island, were, among other things, notable naval architects, naval industrialists, industrial chemists, and automobile designers and manufacturers. Selected members Charles Frederick Herresho ...
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List of maritime museums in the United States List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of ...
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List of museum ships This list of museum ships is a comprehensive, sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. Replica ships are listed separately in the article on ship replicas. Ships that are not museum ships, but are still actively used fo ...


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External links


Official site
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