Consolidated Yachts
{{Short description|Marine service provider and former shipbuilder in New York}}
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Consolidated Yachts is a former shipbuilder and ({{As of|2021|lc=y}}) present-day marine service company located on City Island in The Bronx, New York City.
History
The company was founded as the Gas Engine and Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company in 1896 after the merger of the Charles L. Seabury Company (founded in 1885 in Nyack, New York) and the Gas Engine & Power Company (founded about the same time in Morris Heights, Bronx).{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/06/01/archives/a-big-yachtbuilding-plant-seabury-and-the-gas-engine-company-unite.html|title=A BIG YACHT-BUILDING PLANT.; Seabury and the Gas Engine Company Unite Their Forces.|date=1896-06-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-29|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Seabury was famous for its steam yachts; the Gas Engine & Power Company's primary focus was on naptha-powered launches.{{cite web|url=http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/6yachtsmall/consolidated.htm|title=Consolidated Shipbuilding, Gas Engine & Power, Charles H. Seabury|date=March 3, 2016|website=shipbuildinghistory.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192822/http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/6yachtsmall/consolidated.htm|archive-date=March 3, 2016|access-date=December 29, 2019}} Among other products, the combined company manufactured express cruisers, runabouts, yacht tenders, gas engines and alcohol ranges under the Speedway brand.
{{cite web|date=1917|title=1917 Speedway Exhibit : New York Motor Boat Show, Grand Central Palace, January 27th to February 3rd / Gas Engine & Power Company and Charles L. Seabury & Company, Morris Heights, New York City|url=https://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/library/793275B3-1FB3-42AC-9694-186011766887|access-date=21 January 2020|website=Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake}} The manufacturing facility in Morris Heights was referred to as the Speedway Shipyard,
{{cite magazine|date=January 1919|title=Curtis Yacht at Morris Heights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA264|magazine=The Rudder|volume=35|page=264|access-date=21 January 2020}}
and it stood along Mathewson Road, near what is today the location of Roberto Clemente State Park. On July 16, 1908 Charles L. Seabury & Co's shipyard launched the "largest yacht in the world driven by motor power ... in the presence of its owner Charles Henry Fletcher". She was 111 feet over all, with a 21-foot beam, and 260 horse power and an engineering feat for luxury yachts of the time.{{Cite web
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| title =QUEEN OF MOTOR YACHTS, The Jemima F. III., Largest in the World, Launched in the Harlem
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| newspaper = The New York Times
| location = New York
| date = 17 July 1908
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After the First World War the company rebranded itself as Consolidated Shipbuilding. It was heavily involved in the production of small yachts and military vessels, employing as many as 3,000 skilled tradespeople to that end.{{Cite web|title=Asbestos Exposures at Consolidated Shipbuilding, Bronx New York|url=https://www.levylaw.com/asbestos-exposures-consolidated-shipbuilding-bronx-new-york/|url-status=live|access-date={{today}}|website=Levy Konigsberg, LLP|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207103250/https://www.levylaw.com/asbestos-exposures-consolidated-shipbuilding-bronx-new-york/ |archive-date=2021-12-07 }} Upon the conclusion of World War II, the company moved from Morris Heights to the former Robert Jacobs shipyard on City Island, and it continued to build ships until 1958.
File:GEPC Launch Advert.gif|Advertisement for naptha-powered launches in the 1891 American Yacht List
File:Jemima F III (3) yacht.jpeg|The Jemima F., III, built by Charles L Seabury Co.
File:Sanborn V. 13 Plate 08 publ. 1900.jpg|Map of the Charles L. Seabury Company facilities in Morris Heights, Bronx
Yachts built
- SY 'Kanahwa' (1899) 475 ton luxury steam yacht for John P. Duncan converted in 1917 to create USS PiquaThe Steam Yachts by Erik Hofman ISBN 0-8286-0040-6
World War II shipbuilding
- tugboats
- {{USS|Montezuma|YT-145|3}}, {{USS|Hoga|YT-146|3}}, {{USS|Tazha|YT-147|3}}, {{USS|Wenonah|YT-148|3}}
- YT-364 ... YT-367, YT-388 ... YT-393, YT-520, YT-532 ... YT-545
- DPC-81 ... DPC-92, ST-752 ... ST-757, ST-769, ST-771
- 51 of 343 {{sclass|PC-461|submarine chaser}}s
- {{USS|PC-483||2}} ... {{USS|PC-487||2}}, {{USS|PC-503||2}}, {{USS|PC-504||2}}
- {{USS|PC-600||2}} ... {{USS|PC-603||2}}, {{USS|PC-1191||2}} ... {{USS|PC-1210||2}}
- {{USS|PC-1237||2}} ... {{USS|PC-1240||2}}, {{USS|PC-1264||2}}, {{USS|PC-1265||2}}
- {{USS|PC-1546||2}} ... {{USS|PC-1559||2}}
References
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Category:Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States
Category:Defunct manufacturing companies based in New York City
Category:Companies based in the Bronx
Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1908
Category:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1958
Category:1908 establishments in New York City
Category:1958 disestablishments in New York (state)
Category:Defunct companies based in New York City
Category:Morris Heights, Bronx
Category:American companies established in 1908