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  2. Alexander Robertson & Sons - Wikipedia

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    The yard started building high-spec tenders for the owners of luxurious steamships which were launched further up the River Clyde. 1898 First large steam-powered boat, the 59 ft (18 m) wooden screw-driven schooner, Ernani. 1901 Alexander starts buying shore property in Sandbank to stop other boat yards being built. 1905

  3. Matthew Turner (shipbuilder) - Wikipedia

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    Matthew Turner was born in Geneva, Ohio on June 17, 1825, the fourth child of George Turner and Emily Atkins. George Turner owned a sawmill on the shores of Lake Erie and later launched his first ship, the sloop Geneva, in 1839, to ship lumber and building stone.

  4. Yard (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    The yard exists to allow square sails to be set to drive the ship. The top edge of the sail is 'bent on' (attached) to the yard semi-permanently. Clewlines and buntlines are led along the yard and from there to the mast and down to the deck. These allow the bottom of the sail to be hoisted up to the yard, so the sail is effectively folded in two.

  5. List of U.S. National Historic Landmark ships, shipwrecks ...

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    Ohio 14 January 1986: The USS COD Submarine Memorial is a National Historic Landmark and is docked in Cleveland, Ohio. 26: Columbia (excursion steamer) Michigan 6 July 1992: 27: Constellation: Maryland 23 May 1963: 28: USS Constitution: Massachusetts 19 December 1960: Boston National Historical Park: 29: Delta Queen (river steamboat) Louisiana ...

  6. Santa Maria Ship & Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Santa Maria in 2008. The Santa Maria Ship & Museum was a museum ship in downtown Columbus, Ohio.The craft was a full-size replica of the Santa María, one of three ships Christopher Columbus used in 1492 during his first voyage to the Americas.

  7. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Crosby Boat Yard: Massachusetts: Provincetown: Whydah Museum: Massachusetts: Quincy: United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum: Massachusetts: Salem: Peabody Essex Museum: Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine: Y Massachusetts: Salem: Salem Maritime National Historic Site: Y Massachusetts: Scituate: Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum ...

  8. Jeffboat - Wikipedia

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    The Jeffboat yard built a third nostalgic paddlewheeler, the City of Evansville, which was put into service as the Casino Aztar riverboat casino. [ 2 ] A union decertification petition was circulated in 2016, but employees voted 649 to 190 to retain Teamsters Local 89 as their union.

  9. PS Alice Dean (1863) - Wikipedia

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    PS Alice Dean, which had a capacity of 880 tons, was a side-wheel, wooden-hulled packet steamer. It was launched from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, in 1863, running a scheduled route between Cincinnati and Memphis, Tennessee. Its captain was James H. Pepper.