"A race of shipbuilders"
Subtitle: the Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine
By: Richard E. Winslow III
Series: Publication 33
Publisher: Portsmouth Marine Society
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780915819416
Subjects: Shipbuilding industry; History; Shipbuilding; Biography; Navy-yards and naval stations; Officials and employees; Naval architects
Other titles: Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Hanscoms congregate at Eliot, Maine, 1650/1783; title: Shipbuilding at the Hanscom Yard, 1783/1848; title: Gold promotes Hanscom-built clippers and naval bases, 1848/1850s; title: William Leighton Hanscom at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1852/1859; title: The Civil War engulfs the Hanscoms: Building the Union Navy, 1860/1862; title: "Superior warfare in ships": A new union navy of iron, 1862/1865; title: "A new era in naval architecture": Isaiah Hanscom; title: At the Portsmouth Yard, 1862/1863; title: "One of our most energetic young shipmasters": Captain John Hanscom of the American merchant marine, 1835/1863; title: "I am busy from morn until night": Isaiah at the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1863/1865; title: "A true and staunch Republican": Simon Parker Hanscom, journalist and friend of presidents, 1819/1876; title: "One of the most successful naval architects": William L. Hanscom's obstructed post/Civil War career, 1866/1881; title: "The duties of constructor has [have] increased very much": Isaiah at the Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Boston Yards, 1865/1871; title: "Our commerce requires protection": Isaiah as chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1871/1875; title: "A constructor of first rate ability": Isaiah weathers the Congressional investigation storm, 1876/1880; title: "The biggest battleships show many of his ideas": Naval constructor John Forsyth Hanscom, 1842/1912; title: "Particularly well informed . . . in the construction of iron and steel vessels": Charles Ridgely Hanscom, 1850/1918; title: A promoter of aviation in Massachusetts: Laurence G. Hanscom, 1906/1941; title: Epilogue.