Henry Eckford was a small passenger-cargo steamboat built in New York in 1824. She was the first steam vessel in the world to be installed with a compound...
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Scottish-born American shipbuilder and naval architect Henry Eckford (steamboat), American commercial steamboat in service from 1824 to 1841; the first steam vessel...
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Henry Eckford (12 March 1775 – 12 November 1832) was a Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur who...
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military vessels for the U.S. Navy. Under the general supervision of Henry Eckford, Noah Brown was placed in charge of construction on Lake Erie, and from...
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architect. William Henry Webb was born in New York on June 19, 1816. His father Isaac trained at the shipyard of New York shipbuilder Henry Eckford before opening...
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engine believed to have been installed in a ship was that fitted to Henry Eckford by the American engineer James P. Allaire in 1824. However, many sources...
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supervised during the war by New York City naval architect and shipbuilder Henry Eckford. They rapidly built eleven warships to establish control over the Great...
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No. 181. Council for British Archaeology. October 2021. p. 11. Lloyds Steamboat Disasters Shaw 1978, p. 47. Rolt & Kichenside 1982, p. 69. Shaw 1978,...
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reputation. Brothers Adam and Noah Brown (no relation to Charles) and Henry Eckford took over the spot and, by 1819, extended the wharf along Lewis Street...
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portrait was painted by Sir Edwin Landseer and fellow Scots Sir Henry Raeburn and James Eckford Lauder. In 1824 by C R Leslie later engraved by M I Danforth...
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