About: Isaac C. Smith

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Isaac C. Smith (1797 – March 15, 1877) was an American sail and steamboat captain, shipbuilder, sparmaker and entrepreneur. A longterm resident of Ossining, New York (then known as Sing Sing), Smith began his career working aboard Hudson River sloops, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He also built watercraft and worked as a sparmaker. In the mid-1830s, Smith was the initiator of a steamboat line from Ossining to New York City, supervising the construction of two steamboats for the line and taking command of the first.

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  • Isaac C. Smith (1797 – March 15, 1877) was an American sail and steamboat captain, shipbuilder, sparmaker and entrepreneur. A longterm resident of Ossining, New York (then known as Sing Sing), Smith began his career working aboard Hudson River sloops, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He also built watercraft and worked as a sparmaker. In the mid-1830s, Smith was the initiator of a steamboat line from Ossining to New York City, supervising the construction of two steamboats for the line and taking command of the first. In 1849, Smith opened a shipyard in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he built a wide variety of vessels, from small sloops to steamboats to large, full-rigged ships. In 1853 he was joined in this venture by his son J. Malcolm Smith, the firm then being renamed Isaac C. Smith & Son. About 30 ships were built at this yard before it closed in 1855 due to a nationwide shipbuilding slump. In all, Smith is said to have built about 100 ships through the course of his career, the best known of which was the 1600-ton Hurricane, reputedly the most extreme clipper ever built. Smith was also a devout Methodist and contributed to the construction of five churches of that denomination in his native town, for which he was known as "the father of Sing Sing Methodism". (en)
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  • 1797-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1877-03-15 (xsd:date)
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  • engine manufacturer. Abbreviations as follows: Birbeck = Birbeck's iron works; Phoenix = Phoenix Iron Works; West Street = West Street Foundry. All engine manufacturers were based in New York. Fields in this column with a dash denote that the vessel had no engine. Fields left blank indicate that the engine builder is unknown. (en)
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  • name of ship. Where a ship had more than one name in the course of its career, the later names are presented in chronological order, with each name followed by a two-digit number representing the last two digits of the year in which the rename took place . Names followed by a "y" are yard names. (en)
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  • American (en)
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  • Shipbuilder (en)
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  • Sail and steamboat captain (en)
  • Sparmaker (en)
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  • ship tonnage. In some cases, tonnages may only be approximate as they are sourced to reports in contemporaneous periodicals made prior to the ship's official measurement. (en)
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  • ca. 1810 to ca. 1860 (en)
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  • year of ship launch. Ships are listed by date of launch, with the exception of the unnamed ship built for W. W. De Forrest & Co. in 1851, and the 1853 steamboat Rockland, for both of which only the year of launch is known. (en)
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  • Isaac C. Smith (1797 – March 15, 1877) was an American sail and steamboat captain, shipbuilder, sparmaker and entrepreneur. A longterm resident of Ossining, New York (then known as Sing Sing), Smith began his career working aboard Hudson River sloops, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He also built watercraft and worked as a sparmaker. In the mid-1830s, Smith was the initiator of a steamboat line from Ossining to New York City, supervising the construction of two steamboats for the line and taking command of the first. (en)
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