George Steers & Co was a 19th century shipyard company at Greenpoint,

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, New York.

Company history

Hathorne & Steers

In 1843,

George Steers George Steers (August 15, 1819 – September 25, 1856) 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 maj ...

went into partnership with William Hathorne, under the name of Hathorne & Steers, at the foot of North First street, in

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. They designed and built several boats including the

pilot boat A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting. Pilot boats were once sailing boats that had to be fast because the first pilot to reach the incoming ship ...

''Mary Taylor,'' with a radical new design in a schooner. The firm was closed in 1849. George then went into partnership with his brothers.

James and George Steers shipyard

In 1850,

James Rich Steers James Rich Steers (October 15, 1808 – April 16, 1896) was an American yacht builder and politician. He founded the George Steers and Co shipyard with his brother, George Steers. Career Steers was born in Plymouth, England. His father, Henry S ...

and George Steers started the firm George & James R. Steers. inheriting from a naval architecture tradition. The father

Henry Steers Henry Steers (1779 in Dartmouth, England – 1850 in New York, USA) was a prominent nineteenth-century American shipbuilder of English descent, and the ancestor of a line of important businessmen in various boatbuilding and maritime construction ...

was already a naval architect in England. The company was located in Greenpoint, Long Island, New York. 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.

Henry Steers shipyard

In 1857,

, 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 The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants. Incorporators included William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett (American consul ...

List of built ships

by James and George

*1849: SS ''Pacific'' *1855: SS ''Niagara'' *1856: SS ''Adriatic'' for

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. (April 7, 1856
S.S. Adriatic.

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'' *1877: ''Massachusetts'' for the New York and Providence Line ''History of New York ship yards''
Morrison, John H., New York : Press of W.F. Sametz & Co.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:George Steers And Co American shipbuilders 1850 establishments in New York (state) Greenpoint, Brooklyn