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Halsey is son of Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff and Rebecca Chase Herreshoff and the grandson of the famous Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.
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Halsey is son of Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff and Rebecca Chase Herreshoff and the grandson of the famous Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.
As several before him in the Herreshoff family he studied Naval Architecture. At Webb Institute of Naval Architecture he finished a bachelor"s degree and later a master"s at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Naval architect, Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1960-1963; instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1963-1968; vice president, Herreshoff & Kerwin, Boston, 1963-1983; president, Herreshoff Designs, Boston, Bristol, Rhode Island, since 1972; president, Halsey C. Herreshoff Inc., Bristol, since 1967; president, Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, since 1977.
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Town councillor, Bristol, 1982-1986, 96—. Town administrator, Bristol, since 1986. President Bristol Museum Association, 1980-1982.
Crew member, navigator American's Cup Races, 1958, 74, 80, 83. Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1955-1959. Member Society Naval Architects Marine Engineers, Professional Engineers Society, New York Yacht Club.