In 1843, George Steers went into partnership with William Hathorne, under the name of Hathorne & Steers, at the foot of North First street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They designed and built several boats including the pilot boatMary Taylor, with a radical new design in a schooner. The firm was closed in 1849. George then went into partnership with his brothers.[1][2]
James and George Steers shipyard
In 1850, James Rich Steers and George Steers started the firm George & James R. Steers. inheriting from a naval architecture tradition. The father Henry Steers was already a naval architect in England.[3][4] The company was located in Greenpoint, Long Island, New York.[5][6][7]
They designed in 1851 the America for John C. Stevens to win the Queen's Cup at the annual regatta of the London Royal Yacht Club. She cost about $23,000.
George Steers died on September 25, 1856. Jack Strickland, supervisor of the construction of the yacht America, was a foreman of the Steers shipyard.[8]
Henry Steers shipyard
In 1857, Henry Steers, the son of James Rich Steers and the grandson of Henry Steers, started his shipyard in Greenpoint, Long Island, New York. He designed and built most of the boats of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.[9]
↑A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census, John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young, Publisher E. Young, 1868
↑ 6,06,1"The America Disaster", The New York Times, October 11, 1872
