Charles D. Mower Collection
Abstract
Mower's original drawings for yachts in power and sail, including sloops, yawls, cat boats, schooners, ketches, cutters, and power launches. Some one design classes are included, as well as vessels published as "How To Build" designs in Rudder magazine.
Dates
- Creation: 1897 - 1939
Restrictions on Access
Available for use in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library
Biography of Charles D. Mower
Born in 1875, Charles Drown Mower of New York was a noted yacht designer and author, and was at one time design editor of the Rudder magazine and a contributing author to Motor Boating magazine. From 1895 to 1899 he studied yacht design with Arthur Binney and later Bowdoin B. Crowninshield. In 1911 he began a partnership with Thomas D. Bowes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During World War I he served as a lieutenant commander in the Construction Corps, Naval Reserve. After the war, Mower worked alone and in partnership as Mower and Humphries Ltd. He was also a chief naval architect at Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, New York, and in 1937 was associated with the office of Nelson & Reid, Inc. He was official measurer of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, the Cruising Club of America and the New York Yacht Club. Charles D. Mower died in 1942.
Extent
433 sheet(s) (representing 107 designs)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Charles D. Mower Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Subtitle
- An Inventory of the Collection at the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Mystic Seaport
- Author
- Beth Russell
- Date
- October 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- This collection inventory was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Revision Statements
- October 2024: Updated to EAD3
Repository Details
Part of the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library Repository
G. W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
112 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic Connecticut 06355 United States
860.572.5367
collections@mysticseaport.org