. Contemporary American biography . The Chattanooga, which cost a million of dollars; the steamship Union; thelight-draught monitor Yazoo; the transports Stanton, Foote, Welles, and Porter; the double-ender Wyalusing; and other vessels costing in the aggregate $5,000,000, were built for the Gov-ernment, and many more rebuilt, refitted, or equipped. The Navy Department, which hadturned to the Cramps for aid in a most critical time, found them not only efficient and trust-worthy, but generous friends; laboring with patriotic zeal as well as business energy to assistthe projects of the Government
. Contemporary American biography . The Chattanooga, which cost a million of dollars; the steamship Union; thelight-draught monitor Yazoo; the transports Stanton, Foote, Welles, and Porter; the double-ender Wyalusing; and other vessels costing in the aggregate $5,000,000, were built for the Gov-ernment, and many more rebuilt, refitted, or equipped. The Navy Department, which hadturned to the Cramps for aid in a most critical time, found them not only efficient and trust-worthy, but generous friends; laboring with patriotic zeal as well as business energy to assistthe projects of the Government. During this period the immense activity of the Cramps estab-lishment may be inferred from the fact that, in addition to the ships named and others built forthe Government, they put afloat no less than fifty for private owners. It was then that the greatwork done by the firm contributed to the bestowal upon the Delaware of the expressive nameThe Clyde of America, which it has borne with constantly increasing worthiness, and prin-.
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