User:Gatoclass/SB/Lawrence & Sneden
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Shipbuilding |
Founded | 1816 |
Founders |
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Defunct | 1851 |
Fate | Dissolved |
Successors |
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Headquarters | , |
Key people |
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Products | Steamboats and other watercraft |
Services | Ship repairs |
Number of employees | 150 (1847) |
Company overview
[edit]Lawrence & Sneden was established in Corlears Hook, Manhattan, in 1816 by two young ships' carpenters from Palisades, New York,[a] Herbert Lawrence and Benjamin Sneden. Both men came from large and well-established Palisades families, and Benjamin's Sneden's father and grandfather are both known to have had an association with shipbuilding. The Lawrence & Sneden shipyard was located on the East River in a block approximately bounded by Water, Cherry and Corlears Streets.[b]
Lawrence & Sneden was one of only a handful of New York shipbuilding companies of its era to specialize in steamboat production, the yard only occasionally venturing into the production of sailing vessels. Like other New York builders of steam vessels in this period, Lawrence & Sneden did not invest in its own steam engine manufacturing plant—a technology requiring a large capital outlay—but instead relied on the city's existing network of marine steam engineering plants, such as the Allaire Iron Works, Phoenix Works, West Point Foundry and others for its machinery needs.[c]
The shipyard is said to have provided employment for a substantial number of Palisades residents, particularly in lean times when alternative employment was scarce. Relatives of the founders also found employment there, including Jonathan Lawrence IV, Herbert's stepbrother, who is known to have worked for the firm for some years, and Benjamin Sneden's oldest son Benjamin Jr., also a qualified shipbuilder. Samuel Sneden, Benjamin Sr.'s younger son, may also have worked and/or trained at the yard at some point during his father's co-proprietorship. Members of the Gesner family—related to the Snedens by marriage—are also known to have worked at the yard, with diarist Nicholas Gesner sometimes acting as a solicitor for the proprietors. The company had 150 employees in 1847.
Benjamin Sneden retired in 1842, his partnership with Herbert Lawrence being formally dissolved on 2 May, but the Lawrence & Sneden shipyard continued in operation, trading under its original name, with Herbert Lawrence remaining as (apparently sole) head of the firm. Lawrence retired on 1 May 1845 and was succeeded in turn by Samuel Sneden, Benjamin Sr.'s younger son, and William H. Lawrence,[d] the two continuing the business for another six years, during which time some of the yard's most celebrated steamers were built.
In 1851, the partnership between Samuel Sneden and William Lawrence was dissolved, with Lawrence nominated to settle the company's affairs. Dissolution of the partnership brought to a formal end the Lawrence & Sneden company after some 35 years of operation. Samuel Sneden subsequently opened a shipyard of his own, Samuel Sneden & Co., across the river at Greenpoint, where he continued to build steamboats—both alone and in partnership with E. S. Whitlock—into the 1860s. Thomas F. Rowland eventually gained control of this yard and renamed it the Continental Iron Works, where in 1861 the world's first monitor warship, USS Monitor, was built.
The abandoned former Manhattan shipyard of Lawrence & Sneden, meanwhile, was leased in 1852 by Herbert Lawrence Jr.—son of the defunct yard's co-founder—who was joined a few months later by William Foulks to establish Lawrence & Foulks, another specialist steamboat-building firm which would build about 150 vessels, initially at the Manhattan yard and later at Williamsburg and Greenpoint, over the next four decades.
Notable vessels
[edit]Lawrence & Sneden had "a high reputation as builders", with steamboats built by the company often noted for their speed, elegance and robustness of construction. The company's steamers had a particularly strong presence along the New England coastline, on New York's Hudson and East Rivers and in New York Harbor, but vessels were also built for clients providing services along the entire Atlantic Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as for Cuban and South American service. At least one of the company's steamboats went to China—shipped in a disassembled state aboard a merchant vessel. Lawrence & Sneden is known to have sometimes taken a part share in the vessels it built for clients.
The first known vessel built by Lawrence & Sneden, the steamboat Bellona, played a role in an important Supreme Court case. The vessel was ordered by wealthy plantation owner Thomas Gibbons, who planned to use it to trigger a Supreme Court challenge to the Fulton-Livingston monopoly, that gave the latter exclusive right to operate steamboats in the waters of New York. In the subsequent case, Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled in Gibbons' favor, confirming that the United States Congress had the sole power to regulate interstate commerce. This decision broke the monopoly and led to rapid technological advances in steamboat design, as well as greatly improved steamboat services in and around New York.
Another notable early steamboat built by Lawrence & Sneden was Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help). This vessel was the first in the world to be powered by a compound steam engine (built by the Allaire Iron Works of New York). In spite of its much greater economy of operation however, the compound engine was not widely adopted for steam navigation for almost another fifty years, due in part to the high steam pressures needed to operate such engines efficiently, which with the relatively primitive boiler technologies of the day, were typically considered to unacceptably raise the likelihood of catastrophic boiler explosions.
Some of the fastest and most celebrated early steamboats to operate on the Hudson River were built by Lawrence & Sneden. The most notable of these was Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help), a "crack" steamboat capable of speeds in excess of 22 miles per hour (35 km/h). It was said of her that no steamboat "of her [cylinder] inches" ever matched her speed.[3] Another exceptionally fast vessel originally built for Hudson River service was Curtis Peck, built in 1842. This vessel, however, only operated for a short time on the Hudson before being transferred to the James River, Virginia, where twenty years later, while operating as a Confederate dispatch boat during the American Civil War, she was still considered a contender for fastest boat on the waterway.
Several large and fast New England steamers were also built by the company, including Bay State (1847), the Fall River Line's first vessel, which was reputedly the fastest steamboat of her day on Long Island Sound. Bay State's slightly larger near-sister vessel, Empire State (1847), was also a fast vessel and considered one of the most elegant steamers on the Sound. An earlier vessel built by Lawrence & Sneden for New England service, Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help) (1836), was, when new, the largest and reportedly fastest steamboat in New-York-to-New-Haven service, and one of the largest on the Sound. She had the added distinction of being described—albeit unflatteringly—by Charles Dickens in his book American Notes. Connecticut, built by Lawrence & Sneden in 1848, was the largest steamboat ever to operate on the Connecticut River.
Lawrence & Sneden-built steamers also had a reputation for longevity. Chief among these was Norwich. Built in 1836 as a passenger steamer, she found her niche as a towboat on the Hudson River, in which capacity she operated for more than 70 years. By 1909 she was believed to be the oldest operating steamboat in the world. The exact date of her demise is not established, but is thought to be about 1917. Some other Lawrence & Sneden steamers with long service lives included Belle (60 years), Canonicus (45 years) and Connecticut (42 years), with several others having service lives in the vicinity of 40 years.
Production table
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Name(s)[e] | Type[f] | Yr. [g] |
Ton. [h] |
Engine [i] | Ordered by[j] | Intended service | Ship notes; references |
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Bellona | Steamboat | 1817 | 116 | Allaire | Thomas Gibbons | New York—New Jersey | Cornelius Vanderbilt's first long-term steamboat command. Vessel used to trigger landmark Gibbons v. Ogden monopoly case. |
Petersburg | Steamboat | 1819 | Petersburg SBC | James River | [4] | ||
Pitt Convention | 1822 | 56 | — | A sailing vessel of unspecified type.[5] | |||
Henry Eckford | Steamboat | 1824 | 153 | Allaire | Hudson River | [6][7] World's first steamer with a compound engine. | |
Linnaeus | Steamboat | 1824 | 92 | Allaire | I. & J. Peck | East River | [8] |
Fanny |
Steamboat | 1825 | 126 | Allaire | John Douglas et al | Long Island Sound | Abandoned 1844.[9][10] |
Emerald | Steamboat | 1826 | 246 | Thomas Gibbons | New York—Phil. | Out of documentation 1856;[11] abandoned by 1857.[12] | |
Napoleon | Steamboat | 1830 | 169 | Allaire | [13] | ||
Creole | Ship | 1831 | 542 | — | Louisiana & NY Line | East Coast | Largest ship in Louisiana–New York service on debut; sailing tramp from 1833.[14] |
William Seabrook | Steamboat | 1831 | 228 | Allaire | W. Seabrook et al | Southeast Coast | [15] |
Schooner | 1832 | 150 | —— | [16] | |||
Flushing | Steamboat | 1832 | 185 | [17] | |||
King Philip | Steamboat | 1832 | 169 | West Point | Fall River Iron Works Co. | Narragansett Bay | [18] First steamboat with a steam whistle.[19] Destroyed by fire, Jersey City, 1867.[20] |
New England |
Steamboat | 1833 | 262 | West Point | Connecticut River SBC | Long Island Sound | Double boiler explosion, 15 killed, 1833.[21] Sunk in collision off Maine coast 1838.[22][23] |
William Gibbons |
Steamboat | 1833 | 294 | Allaire | NY & Charleston SPC | East Coast | [k] Ran aground and sank at New Inlet, South Carolina, 1836.[25] |
American Eagle | Steamboat | 1834 | 186 | East River | [17] | ||
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Steamboat | 1834 | E. De Noyelles et al | Hudson River | Caught fire and sank in Hudson River, one killed, 1850.[l] | ||
Steamboat | 1835 | 175 | Allaire | James P. Allaire | New York—New Jersey | [17] Out of documentation 1881.[9] | |
Highlander |
Steamboat | 1835 | 313 | West Point | Powell, Johnson & Wardrop | Hudson River | [6][27][28][29][30] Fast steamboat for her day. Dismantled 1866.[31] md |
New Haven |
Steamboat | 1835 | 343 | Allaire | New Haven SBC | Long Island Sound | [6][32][33][34] First steamboat on L. I. Sound powered by walking beam engine. Abandoned 1877. m d |
Statesman | Steamboat | 1835 | 128 | Hudson River | [35] | ||
Caroline | Steamboat | 1836 | 177 | [17] | |||
Comet | Steamboat | 1836 | 80 | East River | [17] | ||
Fairfield | Steamboat | 1836? | [36] | ||||
Steamboat | 1836 | 524 | Allaire | New Haven SBC | Long Island Sound | [6][32][33][34] Largest and reportedly fastest steamer in New York – New Haven service when new, and one of the largest on the Sound. Towboat 1850s, abandoned 1875.[37] | |
Norwich |
Steamboat | 1836 | 346 | Phoenix | New York & Norwich SBC | [6][38][39][40][41] Reportedly the world's oldest active steamboat by 1917. Abandoned 1924.[42] m d | |
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Steam ferry | 1836 | 145 | Birbeck | New York & Brooklyn SFC | East River | [43] One of first two sidewheelers on Fulton Ferry route.[44] |
Star | Steamboat | 1836 | 102 | East River | [35] | ||
Steamboat | 1836 | 159 | Hudson River | [35] | |||
Telegraph |
Steamboat | 1836 | 243 | Smith, Hulse & Odell | Hudson River | [35][45][46][47] Lost 1870.[22] | |
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Steamboat | 1837 | 290 | Isaac P. Smith et al | Hudson River | [17][48][49] Burned and rebuilt 1840; burned and rebuilt 1841; condemned 1866 after boiler explosion.[50] [2] | |
Belle | Steamboat | 1837 | 430 | [17] Broken up 1897.[51] | |||
Echo | Steamboat | 1837 | 102 | [17] | |||
Columbus | Steamboat | 1838 | 370 | [52] | |||
Hornet | Steamboat | 1838 | 429 | [6] | |||
Huntress | Steamboat | 1838 | 350 | Phoenix | [39][52][53] engine dims[3] | ||
Neptune |
Steamboat | 1838 | 746 | Allaire | Southern SPC | East Coast | m [6][15][54] Robustly built for seagoing service but still "not a true steamship", though initially used as such by her owners. USNQMD 1846. Wrecked by gale while at anchor, 1846.[55] heyl |
Brig | 1840 | 300 | — | [56] | |||
Express |
Steamboat | 1841 | 275 | A. B. Stone; W. W. Coit | Hudson River | Lost off North Point, Maryland, 1878.[57] | |
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Steamboat | 1842 | 446 | Elijah Peck | Hudson River | [58][59] Confederacy patrol and flag-of-truce boat, 1861–62. Sunk as blockship in James River, 1862.[60][61] | |
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Steamboat | 1842 | 308 | Allaire | Long Island Sound | [62] | |
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Steamboat | 1843 | 500 | Phoenix | Sanford Independent Line | New England | [63] Sank in storm off Chincoteague, Virginia, 1857.[64] image from morrison -htrust |
Hero | Steamboat | 1844 | 500 | Allaire | Hudson River | [65] | |
Bradford Durfee | Steamboat | 1845 | 333 | Fall River Iron Works Co. | Narragansett Bay | [m] Dismantled 1883.[67] | |
Edwin Lewis | Steamboat | 1845 | 178 | Eatontown SBC | New York—New Jersey | [68][69] | |
Governor | Steamboat | 1846 | East Coast | Foundered off Carolina coast, 1861.[n] | |||
Metamora |
Steamboat | 1846 | 282 | Fulton | Hudson River | [71] "Lively" vessel and a leading day boat on the Hudson, late 1850s. Later a towboat. Broken up, Port Washington, New York, 1884.[72][73] m | |
Steamboat | 1846 | 585 | Secor | T. Powell, H. Ramsdell | Hudson River | [74][75][29] Fast and popular vessel.[76] Broken up Port Ewen, 1878.[77] | |
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Steamboat | 1847 | 650 | Eastern Eastport SBC | Boston—Saint John | [78][o] Largest and most popular steamer in Boston–St. Johns service in her day. Broken up 1874. heyl | |
Bay State |
Steamboat | 1847 | 1600 | Allaire | Bay State SBC | Long Island Sound | [80] Fastest vessel on L. I. Sound, 1847–mid-1850s. Lengthened 1854; converted to barge 1864.[81][p][83][84] |
California |
Steamer | 1847 | 500 | Allaire | N.O. & Mobile Mail Line | Gulf of Mexico | [78][85] |
Steamboat | 1847 | 1691 | Allaire | [78] [81][86][87] | |||
Habanero | Steamboat | 1847 | 400 | Dunham | Hernandez & Brugon | Cuba | [78][88] |
John Hart | Steamboat | 1847 | 300 | [78] | |||
Connecticut |
Steamboat | 1848 | 1129 | Secor | Connecticut River SBC | Long Island Sound | [89][90] Broken up after boiler explosion, 1890.[11][91] |
Tah Wah | Steamboat | 1849 | R. B. Forbes & Co. | China | Disassembled after construction and shipped to China for reassembly.[92][93] | ||
Canonicus | Steamboat | 1849 | 434 | Allaire | Fall River Iron Works Co. | Narragansett Bay | USNQMD 1862–66; burned and sank, Port Richmond, New York, 1894.[67] -heyl |
Ocean | Steamboat | 1849 | 658 | M. Sanford et al | New England | Exploded, beached and burned after collision, 1854. heyl | |
Storm | Tugboat | 1849 | B. & B. F. Betts | New York | [94] | ||
Tabaga | Steamboat | 1849 | 300 | Cuba | [95] | ||
Tempest | Tugboat | 1849 | B. & B. F. Betts | New York | [94] | ||
Susquehanna | Barge | 1850 | 359 | Hudson River | [96][97] | ||
Steamboat | 1850 | George Law & Co. | Panama | [98] | |||
Florida | Steamer | 1850 | 800 | James L. Day | [96] | ||
Lavandier | Steamboat | 1850 | Cuba | [99] | |||
Gordon | Steamship | 1851 | 500 | Phoenix | Brooks & Barton | East Coast | [97][96][100][101][102] [4] |
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Steamship | 1851 | 500 | Phoenix | Brooks & Barton | East Coast | [97][96][100][101][102] Confederate gunboat 1861; captured by USN and used as gunboat, 1862–64. USAQMD 1864; returned to merchant service 1866. Broken up 1883.[103] [5] |
North America | Steamship | 1851 | 1440 | Morgan | Independent Line | California | [96][100][104][105][106] Stranded south of Acapulco, Mexico, 1852.[107] |
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| || Osiris || Steamboat || align="center" | 1838 || align="right" | 145 || Allaire || || || [10] [q]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Then known as Snedens Landing.
- ^ Early sources describe the shipyard as located at or near the foot of Water Street, while later sources describe it as situated at the foot of Cherry or Grand Streets. An 1851 source describes the area between Corlears Street (west of the waterfront) and Grand Street as "occupied chiefly by the ship-yard of Lawrence & Sneden, and Pease & Murphy's foundry".[1] Corlears Street, which no longer exists, ran south from Grand Street, parallel with modern-day Jackson Street and about halfway between it and the waterfront.[2] The various sources basically describe a block of land along the waterfront approximately bounded to the south and north by Water and Cherry/Grand Streets respectively and by Corlears Street to the west.
- ^ See production table.
- ^ The author has been unable to establish the identity of William H. Lawrence or his familial relationship to Herbert Lawrence. The most likely candidate would appear to be Herbert's stepson William H. Lawrence, son of Herbert's half-brother Jonathan Lawrence IV.
- ^ Name of ship. Where a ship had more than one name in the course of its career, the names are presented sequentially, with the last two digits of the year in which the name change took place displayed, where available, after the name. Names followed by a "(y)" are yard names.
- ^ Type of vessel. The generic term "steamer" is used in this column where it is not clear from the sources whether the vessel was a steamboat or a steamship.
- ^ Year of ship launch, where available, otherwise year of completion.
- ^ Ship tonnage. Tonnages will be in either tons burthen or gross register tonnage. Sources rarely indicate which form of tonnage is being employed.
- ^ Engine manufacturer. Abbreviations as follows: Allaire=Allaire Iron Works; Birbeck=Alexander Birbeck; Dunham=H. R. Dunham & Co.; Fulton=Fulton Iron Works (alternatively known as Pease & Murphy); Morgan=Morgan Iron Works; Phoenix=Phoenix Foundry (alternatively known at various times as James Cunningham & Co.; Cunningham & Hall; Belknap, Cunningham & Co.; and Hogg & Delamater); Secor=T. F. Secor & Co.; West Point=West Point Foundry. All manufacturers were based in New York City with the exception of the West Point Foundry which was located at Cold Spring, New York.
- ^ Individual or business entity that ordered the ship. Abbreviations in this column include: SBC—Steamboat Company; SPC—Steam Packet Company; SFC—Steam Ferry Company.
- ^ [24] The source names Samuel Sneden as the builder but Sneden was not yet a builder in his own right.
- ^ [26] The source states that "many jumped overboard and were drowned" in the incident; however, contemporaneous newspaper records state that one person was drowned.
- ^ [66] The source erroneously identifies the builder as "Brown, Lawrence & Sneeden" and the steamboat's name as "Bradford".
- ^ [70] The source states that Samuel Sneden was the builder; however, he was still a partner in Lawrence & Sneden at the time and had yet to establish his own shipyard.
- ^ [79] The source erroneously names the builder as "Lawrence & Son".
- ^ [82] The source states that Samuel Sneden was the builder; however, he was still a partner in Lawrence & Sneden at the time and had yet to establish his own shipyard.
- ^ Ship built by Bishop & Simonson according to Heyl. Heyl 1959, II, [118]
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[edit]- ^ "The Eastern Battery" (PDF). New York Daily Tribune. 1851-08-13. p. 4.
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- ^ Emerson 1949. pp. 120, 176.
- ^ "For Sale" (PDF). New York Evening Post. 1828-03-17. p. 3.
- ^ a b c d e f g Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 96.
- ^ Stanton, Samuel Ward (June 1912). "History of the First Century of Steam Navigation: Chapter XX". Master, Mate and Pilot. Vol. 5, no. 1. New York: The American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots. p. 17. hdl:2027/nyp.33433069075087.
- ^ Swede 2010. p. 45.
- ^ a b Ryder, F. Van Loon (1965-04-29). "2 Little Sidewheelers: The Fanny and the Frank". Greene County News.
- ^ Heyl 1956. p. 85.
- ^ a b Jacobus 1956. p. 112.
- ^ "Emerald". Master, Mate and Pilot. V (8). New York: The American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots: 358. Jan 1913. hdl:2027/nyp.33433069075087.
- ^ Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 135
- ^ Fairburn 1945–55. pp. 1145–46.
- ^ a b Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 266
- ^ "Vessels Building" (PDF). Morning Courier and New York Enquirer. 1832-12-19. p. 1.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 95
- ^ Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 58.
- ^ Dayton 1925. p. 187.
- ^ Borden 1957. p. 36.
- ^ Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 79.
- ^ a b Jacobus 1956. p. 114.
- ^ Heyl 1956. p. 155.
- ^ Heyl 1953. pp. 445–46.
- ^ Baughman 1968. p. 16.
- ^ Green 1886. pp. 213–15.
- ^ Reynolds 1906. p. 514.
- ^ Morrison 1903. p. 158.
- ^ a b Dayton 1925. p. 397.
- ^ Dayton 1925. pp. 43–44.
- ^ Stanton 1964. 5. p. 18.
- ^ a b Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 65.
- ^ a b Morrison 1903. p. 349.
- ^ a b Dayton 1925. p. 109.
- ^ a b c d Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 97.
- ^ Norwalk Historical and Memorial Library Association 1901. p. 248.
- ^ Stanton 1962. 2. p. 15.
- ^ Reynolds 1906. p. 517.
- ^ a b Treasury Dept. 1838. p. 69.
- ^ Morrison 1903. p. 328.
- ^ Dayton 1925. pp. 84–86, 162.
- ^ Stanton 1962. 2. p. 11.
- ^ "Steam Ferry Boats, &c. For Sale at Auction, By Wm. R. Dean" (PDF). New York American. 1839-05-14. p. 3.
- ^ Cudahy 1990. p. 423.
- ^ "Notice is Hereby Given". The Evening Post. New York. 1837-07-15. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Sale of a Steamboat" (PDF). Daily Troy Budget. Troy, New York. 1841-07-20. p. 2.
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- ^ Morrison 1903. pp. 163–65.
- ^ Dayton 1925. p. 47.
- ^ Green 1886. pp. 213–214.
- ^ Jacobus 1956. p. 66.
- ^ a b "Ship Building in New York" (PDF). Morning Herald. New York. 1840-01-14. p. 2.
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- ^ Morrison 1903. p. 484.
- ^ Stanton 1963. 3. p. 7.
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- ^ "Launches Yesterday". The New York Herald. 1842-03-31. p. 2.
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- ^ Silverstone 1989. p. 243.
- ^ "Curtis Peck (side wheel steamer)". Naval History and Heritage Command. United States Navy. 2014-04-15.
- ^ Heyl 1964. pp. 221–24.
- ^ "Ship Building". The New York Herald. 1843-01-19. p. 2.
- ^ Heyl 1953. p. 341.
- ^ Heyl 1964. pp. 171–72.
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- ^ Monmouth County 1949. p. 38.
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- ^ Stanton 1964. 5. p. 26.
- ^ Murdoch, George W. (1938-06-10). "Hudson River Steamboats No. 40—The Metamora". The Kingston Daily Freeman. Kingston, NY. p. 4.
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- ^ Dayton 1925. pp. 195–96.
- ^ a b Morrison 1903. pp. 309–12, 326.
- ^ Dayton 1925. pp. 195–96.
- ^ American Lloyd's Universal Register of Shipping 1870. Steamers: p. 3.
- ^ Stanton 1962. 2. p. 22.
- ^ "City News" (PDF). New York Evening Express. 1847-09-13. p. 1.
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- ^ a b c Silka, Henry (2006). "Shipbuilding and the Nascent Community of Greenpoint, New York, 1850–1855" (PDF). The Northern Mariner. Vol. XVI, no. 2. The Canadian Nautical Research Society. p. 21.
- ^ "No title" (PDF). Daily Albany Argus. New York. 1850-01-18. p. 2.
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- ^ Baughman 1968. p. 243.
- ^ Morrison 1909. p. 110.
- ^ "Acapulco: Particulars of the Loss of the Steamship North America". The New York Times. 1852-04-01.
- ^ Heyl 1964. pp. 171–72.
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- Borden, Philip D. (1957). Steamboating On Narragansett Bay. Rhode Island: Steamship Historical Society of America. pp. 35–36.
- Cudahy, Brian L. (1990). Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor. New York: Fordham University Press. p. 423. ISBN 0823212459.
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- Green, Frank Bertangue (1886). History of Rockland County. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. p. 213.
- Jacobus, Melancthon W. (1956). The Connecticut River Steamboat Story. Hartford, CT: The Connecticut Historical Society.
- Monmouth County (1949). The Township of Ocean: Commemorative Book Published for the Centennial Celebration August 1949. p. 38.
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- Morrison, John Harrison (1909). History of New York Ship Yards. New York: Wm. F. Sametz & Co. p. 110.
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[edit]- empire state image -htrust
- 11/Jamaica NY Long Island Farmer/Jamaica NY Long Island Farmer 1833-1838/Jamaica NY Long Island Farmer 1833-1838 - 0792.pdf curtis peck part ownership -fulton
- Samuel Sneden, of the sixth American generation, son of John Sneden, was a boat builder, and is said to have invented the centre board for sailing craft, and early in the nineteenth century he built at least one steam-boat. He married Maria Verbryck -archive
- says many snedens and gesners worked at yard, sourced to "nicholas gesner diaries, 1838-43mm" but can't find in diary -ancestry
- creole launch -f
refs
[edit]- herbert lawrence ancestry -palisades a bit about shipyard -palisades archive link[16]
- some genealogy -web possible retrieve
- high reputation -htrust
- 1847 employees -htrust
- area between grand street and corlears street "occupied chiefly by the ship-yard of lawrence & sneden" 1851 -fulton
- yard "head of water street" 1842 -fulton
- "head of cherry street" 1846? l. empire state -fulton es burned, restored "near the foot of grand street" -fulton es burned description -fulton
- l&f ft. cherry 1853 -htrust
- 1837-40 launches -fulton
- 1847 launches -fulton
- list of ships built in new york 1823-1840 -fulton
- sneden obit -fulton
- lawrence & sneden ship 1822 -fulton 1828 paper -fulton
- part owners of belle -fulton
- gesner diary -web
- established 1816 herbert lawrence partner first boat Bellona for Vanderbilt -htrust
- firm dissolved july 1851 -fulton
- balance dry dock 1849 -fulton
- thomas powell long service etc -htrust
- lawrence retires 1845
ships
[edit]- bay state built 1847 -npc first ad -npc vanderbilt challenge june -npc
- 1833 schooner -npc
- home? neptune -npc
- edwin lewis 1845 -fulton
- huntress some details -fulton huntress columbus also williams -fulton
- penobscot image -htrust
- empire state image -web
- 300 ton brig 1840 -np
- warren 1834 -web
- china steamer unnamed 1836 -fulton
- neptune launch 1837 -fulton
- t powell fast boat 1846 -fulton launch date -fulton
- 1850 n. america launch, yard "foot of cherry street" -fulton
- other ships, also j williams other builders -npc jt williams obit 1879 -npc
- emerald -htrust
- n america launch 1850 -fulton second time -fulton
- 1845 clist bradford 1845 -fulton
- new haven some details -fulton
- two steamers 183? -fulton
- connecticut fanny frank engines, history -web
- $40,000 ship to run on east coast 1842 -fulton
- creole ship 1831, also bergh -fulton
- 1832? schooner and steamer -fulton 1832 -fulton
- 1830-32 steamer -fulton
- telegraph built 1836 -fulton and tonnage -fulton
- ferry relief, others 1836 -fulton
- unnamed 1842 -fulton
- habanero 1847 -fulton
- admiral 1847? "steamship" -fulton
- empire state 1848 some details -fulton detailed description -fulton launch, "head of cherry street" -fulton restores 1849, "near foot of grand street" -fulton
- 1849 small steamer for china -fulton
- tabaga 1849 -htrust
- north america 1850, other yards -fulton
- president boston -web
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