Samuel Moore Pook (August 15, 1804 – December 2, 1878) was a

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

-based American

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and father of

Samuel Hartt Pook Samuel Hartt Pook (January 17, 1827 – March 30, 1901) was a Boston-based American naval architect and son of Samuel Moore Pook (1804-1878), the noted clipper ship naval architect. Clipper ships Pook designed several very fast clippers, ...

, the noted

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. In 1861, at the outbreak of the

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, Pook designed the

City class ironclad The Pook Turtles, or City-class gunboats to use their semi-official name, were war vessels intended for service on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. They were also sometimes referred to as "Eads gunboats." The labels are ap ...

s for

James B. Eads Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmar ...

. The

s, also known as "Pook Turtles" due to their distinctive shape, were the backbone of the naval flotilla deployed by the

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on the

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during the

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External links

The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pook, Samuel M. American naval architects 1804 births 1878 deaths People from Boston