The Moses H. Grinnell was a 19th-century pilot boat built in 1850 for the New York maritime pilots. She was designed by the yacht designer George Steers. The Grinnell was the first pilot boat to featu
Schooner Moses H. Grinnell in Stowing Sails off Fairhaven by William Bradford, 1858.
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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 ma
Moses H. Grinnell (pilot boat)
…The Moses H. Grinnell was a 19th-century pilot boat built in 1850 for the New York maritime pilots. She was designed by the yacht designer George Steers. The Grinnell was the first pilot boat to feature a fully developed concave clipper-bow, which was to become the New York schooner-rigged pilot boat's…
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