An edition of "A race of shipbuilders"
(2013)
"A race of shipbuilders"
the Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine
by Richard Elliott Winslow
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Shipbuilding industry, History, Shipbuilding, Biography, Navy-yards and naval stations, Officials and employees, Naval architectsPeople
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"A race of shipbuilders": the Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine
2013, Portsmouth Marine Society
in English
0915819414 9780915819416
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Table of Contents
The Hanscoms congregate at Eliot, Maine, 1650/1783
Shipbuilding at the Hanscom Yard, 1783/1848
Gold promotes Hanscom-built clippers and naval bases, 1848/1850s
William Leighton Hanscom at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1852/1859
The Civil War engulfs the Hanscoms: Building the Union Navy, 1860/1862
"Superior warfare in ships": A new union navy of iron, 1862/1865
"A new era in naval architecture": Isaiah Hanscom
At the Portsmouth Yard, 1862/1863
"One of our most energetic young shipmasters": Captain John Hanscom of the American merchant marine, 1835/1863
"I am busy from morn until night": Isaiah at the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1863/1865
"A true and staunch Republican": Simon Parker Hanscom, journalist and friend of presidents, 1819/1876
"One of the most successful naval architects": William L. Hanscom's obstructed post/Civil War career, 1866/1881
"The duties of constructor has [have] increased very much": Isaiah at the Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Boston Yards, 1865/1871
"Our commerce requires protection": Isaiah as chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1871/1875
"A constructor of first rate ability": Isaiah weathers the Congressional investigation storm, 1876/1880
"The biggest battleships show many of his ideas": Naval constructor John Forsyth Hanscom, 1842/1912
"Particularly well informed . . . in the construction of iron and steel vessels": Charles Ridgely Hanscom, 1850/1918
A promoter of aviation in Massachusetts: Laurence G. Hanscom, 1906/1941
Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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