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In 1853, Robb built the 567-ton clipper ship Frigate Bird for C. H. Cummings & Co., of Philadelphia. [3] The Bird traveled to Australia under the command of Captain Perry C. Cope. [ 13 ] On August 24, 1853, the 1,200-ton sidewheel steamship Tennessee was launched from the John A. Robb shipyard for the Baltimore and Southern Packet Company's ...
Liberty ship production was a primary goal of the yard. [ citation needed ] The shipyard also constructed 21 Cimarron -class oilers from 1938 to 1946. Once part of a chain of 17 shipyards operating under BethShip , the Sparrows Point Shipyard was the only location remaining by 1990.
The upper yard was sold to AME/Swirnow in 1983. The site now holds Ritz Carlton and Harborview communities next to Baltimore Museum of Industry. [18] [19] Bethlehem Fort McHenry Shipyard, Baltimore. The lower yard on Locust Point peninsula, it was sold to General Ship Repair in 1983. Now some Port of Baltimore terminals. [20]
The ship was headed to Sri Lanka when it lost power shortly after leaving Baltimore and struck one of the bridge’s support columns, collapsing the span and sending six members of a roadwork crew ...
If Grace Ocean seeks such protections, Brennan explained, the company would need to file a petition in federal court and post a bond equivalent to the firm’s valuation of the ship.
In 1837 he founded a company to provide smithwork especially to shipbuilders, from premises in Anderston. In 1847 his younger brother, John Inglis (1819–1888), joined him, who had learned the craft of marine engineering and whose practicable skills added another dimension to the company. Together they founded the company A. & J. Inglis in 1847.
(Reuters) -The state of Maryland on Tuesday filed civil claims against the owner and operator of the cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, killing six people and paralyzing ...
The following year he moved to Portland, and set up the Zidell Machinery and Supply Company, selling equipment and supplies to the region's expanding industrial base. Shortly after the end of World War II, in 1946, Sam Zidell's son Emery, who now headed the business, purchased the shipyard of Commercial Iron Works in Portland and turned it into ...