Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company

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Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company was a ship building firm located in the Bronx, New York. It was formed in 1896 from the merger of the Charles L. Seabury Company, founded in 1885 in Nyack, New York, and the Gas Engine & Power Company, founded about the same time in Morris Heights, Bronx. [1] Seabury was famous for its steam yachts and Gas Engine & Power Company primary focus was in naptha-powered launches. [2]

The shipyard was located on Mathewson Road near what is today the location of Roberto Clemente State Park. Although initially, the company went by the name of Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company, after the First World War, it became known as Consolidated Shipbuilding. Consolidated Shipbuilding moved to Robert Jacobs shipyard on City Island after the Second World War and it continued to build ships until 1958. [2]

Continuing its production of luxury yachts, on July 16, 1908 Charles L. Seabury & Co's shipyard launched the "largest yacht in the world driven by motor power ... in the presence of its owner Charles Henry Fletcher". She was 111 feet over all, with a 21-foot beam, and 260 horse power and an engineering feat for luxury yachts of the time. [3]

Among other products, the company manufactured express cruisers, runabouts, yacht tenders, gas engines and alcohol ranges under the Speedway brand. [4] The factory in Morris Heights was referred to as the Speedway Shipyard. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "A BIG YACHT-BUILDING PLANT.; Seabury and the Gas Engine Company Unite Their Forces". The New York Times. 1896-06-01. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  2. 1 2 "Consolidated Shipbuilding, Gas Engine & Power, Charles H. Seabury". shipbuildinghistory.com. March 3, 2016. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ "QUEEN OF MOTOR YACHTS, The Jemima F. III., Largest in the World, Launched in the Harlem". The New York Times. New York. 17 July 1908. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "1917 Speedway Exhibit : New York Motor Boat Show, Grand Central Palace, January 27th to February 3rd / Gas Engine & Power Company and Charles L. Seabury & Company, Morris Heights, New York City". Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. 1917. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Curtis Yacht at Morris Heights". The Rudder. Vol. 35. January 1919. p. 264. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

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