. History of New York ship yards. rs. The ex-tension of our coastwise commerce with steam vessels atthis period was a factor of much interest to the local 98 NEW BRA IN SHIPBUILDING. shipyards, as the larger number of these vessels werebuilt at New York. Then to increase the business stillfurther there was a lively competition going on betweenthe several established lines and outside interests on theHudson river, and the demand for four or more years wasvery great for high speed passenger steamboats of largesize, several of which made long runs on the river inrecord time that is even of intere
. History of New York ship yards. rs. The ex-tension of our coastwise commerce with steam vessels atthis period was a factor of much interest to the local 98 NEW BRA IN SHIPBUILDING. shipyards, as the larger number of these vessels werebuilt at New York. Then to increase the business stillfurther there was a lively competition going on betweenthe several established lines and outside interests on theHudson river, and the demand for four or more years wasvery great for high speed passenger steamboats of largesize, several of which made long runs on the river inrecord time that is even of interest at this dav, and all ofthem built at New York. So we see there was a steadyhum of the broad axe in our shipyards not many yearsprior to its first stage of decline. Referring to the high speed steamboats of the Hud-son river, built during this period of intense rivalry onthe river at New York City shipyards, it will be of interestto refer to some incidents in the career of the Em-pire, built by William H. Brown in 1843, and the. Thomas Powell by Lawrence & Sneeden in 1846,vessels that were well known on the river at the facts referred to are those lately published in theScientific American Supplement in a series of papers bythe writer on The Development of Armored War Ves-sels and Armor Plating in the United States, where hesays: What gave our naval architects, as well as , the first practical demonstration of the value of theprinciples of high speed and strength of a vessel todestroy an enemys vessel by forcible contact was that ofthe occasion of a light-built river steamboat running intoa solid-built pier in the City of New York, with compara-tive slight injury to the vessel. It was in the early morn-ing of April 25, 1845, that the steamboat Empire ofTroy/ of the New York and Troy line was coming down NEW ERA IN SHIPBUILDING. 99 the Hudson river, and when opposite the upper part ofNew York City during a fog on the river, ran into the endpier of the new doc
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