Morgan Iron Works
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The Morgan Iron Works was a 19th-century manufacturing plant for marine steam engines located in New York City, United States. Founded as T. F. Secor & Co. in 1838, the plant was later taken over and
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Steam sloop-of-war USS Wachusett
USS Dolphin, focus of a bitter political battle between John Roach and the U.S. Navy
Lawrence & Foulks
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Lawrence & Foulks was a 19th-century American shipbuilding company based in New York. Established in the early 1850s, the company built 144 vessels of all types over the course of some fifty years, bu
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…Pacific Mail SSC VB 2 50 10 Scrapped, 1868 St. Louis 1854 J. A. Westervelt 1621 Pacific Mail SSC VB 2 50 10 Dismantled at Panama, 1878 Commonwealth 1855 Lawrence & Foulks 1732 Norwich & New London SBC VB 1 76 12 Destroyed by fire at Groton, CT, 1865 "[T]he great boat of Long Island Sound in the '50s." Island Home 1855…
SS De Soto, built by Lawrence & Foulks in 1859. She served as USS De Soto during the Civil War.
A beam-propeller engine. Lawrence & Foulks built a number of ships powered by such engines during the Civil War.
Chauncey Vibbard, built in 1864, was the fastest steamboat on the Hudson
The "remarkably handsome" ferry Sylvan Dell, built by Lawrence & Foulks in 1872