John Roach (shipbuilder)
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John Roach was an American industrialist who rose from humble origins as an Irish immigrant laborer to found the largest and most productive shipbuilding empire in the Reconstruction Era United States, John Roach & Sons.
John Roach (shipbuilder)
Engines for the mammoth ironclad USS Dunderberg and a number of other warships were supplied by the Etna Iron Works during the American Civil War.
The experimental screw frigate USS Tennessee. Roach's engine refit for this vessel led to allegations of corruption.
As part of his campaign to gain control of Pacific Mail, Jay Gould vilified Roach as an inefficient shipbuilder dependent upon government subsidies.
Allaire Iron Works
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The Allaire Iron Works was a leading 19th-century American marine engineering company based in New York City. Founded in 1816 by engineer and philanthropist James P. Allaire, the Allaire Works was one of the world's first companies dedicated to the construction of marine steam engines, supplying the engines for more than 50% of all the early steamships built in the United States.
The Steam packet Chancellor Livingston entering the harbour of Newport
Artist's impression of Savannah
A side-lever engine built by the Allaire Iron Works in 1849 for the transatlantic steamer Pacific
Transport magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt gained control of the Allaire Works in 1850