George Steers was a designer of yachts best known for the famous racing yacht America. He founded a shipyard with his brother, George Steers and Co, and died in an accident just as he was landing a major contract to build boats for the Russian Czar.
George Steers
Interior of George Steers' model room, as it appeared at the time of his death in 1856, showing labelled models of ships and yachts designed or built at the yard
America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing trophy.
The yacht America
America was built on the lines of Mary Taylor (1849)
America 1851, by James Bard
America model in Musée de la Marine.