George Steers and Co

George Steers & Co was a 19th century shipyard company at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York.

Company history

Hathorne & Steers

In 1843, George Steers went into partnership with William Hathorne, under the name of Hathorne & Steers, at the foot of North First street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They designed and built several boats including the pilot boat Mary Taylor, with a radical new design in a schooner. The firm was closed in 1849. George then went into partnership with his brothers.[1][2]

James and George Steers shipyard

In 1850, James Rich Steers and George Steers started the firm George & James R. Steers. inheriting from a naval architecture tradition. The father Henry Steers was already a naval architect in England.[3][4] The company was located in Greenpoint, Long Island, New York.[5][6][7]

They designed in 1851 the America for John C. Stevens to win the Queen's Cup at the annual regatta of the London Royal Yacht Club. She cost about $23,000.

George Steers died on September 25, 1856. Jack Strickland, supervisor of the construction of the yacht America, was a foreman of the Steers shipyard.[8]

Henry Steers shipyard

In 1857, Henry Steers, the son of James Rich Steers and the grandson of Henry Steers, started his shipyard in Greenpoint, Long Island, New York. He designed and built most of the boats of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.[9]

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

List of built ships

by James and George

by Henry Steers
  • 1857: Charles H. Marshall
  • 1859: Hu Quang, Che Kiang and Foh Kein
  • 1865: SS Arizona January 19, 1865
  • 1867: SS Great Republic for Pacific Mail Steamship Company
  • 1869: SS America[11]
  • 1877: Massachusetts for the New York and Providence Line [12]

See also

References
  1. Neblett, Thomas R. (2009). Civil War Yacht. Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing & Enterprises. pp. 36–45.
  2. Coffin, Roland Folger (1885). The America's Cup. Michigan: C. Scribner's sons. p. 6.
  3. Obituary record, April 19, 1896, The New York Times
  4. Harper's magazine, Volume 65, Harper's Magazine Co., 1882
  5. A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census, John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young, Publisher E. Young, 1868
  6. "The America Disaster", The New York Times, October 11, 1872
  7. History of New York ship yards, John Harrison Morrison, Press of W.F. Sametz & Co., 1909
  8. DEATH LIST OF A DAY, NY Times, August 3, 1898
  9. A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop
  10. "The shiplist GGGrandPa's Scrapbook". Archived from the original on 2007-08-15. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
  11. "The America Disaster", The New York Times, October 11, 1872
  12. History of New York ship yards, Morrison, John H., New York : Press of W.F. Sametz & Co.
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