User:Gatoclass/SB/Perrine, Patterson & Stack

Perrine, Patterson & Stack was a mid-19th century shipbuilding company based in Williamsburg, New York. The company built wooden-hulled ships of all types, but is probably best remembered for a number of notable steamships built in the early 1850s. The company existed for only a few years before the proprietors decided to go their separate ways; of the three former partners, only Thomas Stack subsequently built a substantial number of vessels under his own name.

History
Perrine, Patterson and Stack was established in about 1845 by William Perrine, Ariel Patterson and Thomas Stack. Perrine, a retired ship's captain, was senior partner in the firm, Patterson was his brother-in-law, and Stack was a young shipbuilder who had served his apprenticeship in the renowned New York shipbuilding company Brown & Bell. The shipyard of the newly formed company was located at the foot of North 2nd Street, Williamsburg (now a borough of Brooklyn).

While the plant and equipment of Perrine, Patterson & Stack is not known, wooden shipbuilding firms in this era could be established for a relatively small outlay&mdash;as little as $11,000, and rarely more than $20,000. Tradesmen at this time mostly supplied their own tools, so a shipyard needed only a waterfront property large enough to hold a timber yard and a slipway or two, a derrick to lift heavy components, a large crosscut saw and a few other tools. Since New York was already well served by a number of existing marine engine plants, Perrine, Patterson & Stack could additionally avoid the expensive outlay of an engine plant of its own, relying instead on outsourcing for its steamship engines, from well-known companies such as the Allaire Iron Works, Morgan Iron Works and Hogg & Delameter.

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 * bark olivia elwell 1851
 * hornet havre steamer
 * 500 men, j williams yard 1851. Also Eagle (?), Pennsylvania, Canada, Argo.
 * lafayette ad, image
 * lafayette franklin report
 * pennsylvania, others, taking over williams yard, foulks formerly a journeyman shipbuiler -fulton
 * historical sketch of fulton ferry book with list -htrust
 * 1852 launches griffiths inc. minnesota -htrust
 * william h harbeck -npc destroyed by fire 1850s
 * perine apr 1846
 * de witt clinton apr 1848 mystic58
 * six ferries for grand street ferry, jasper, etc
 * ticonderoga, tobago? capes & allison
 * various 1851
 * lafayette trial trip engines
 * cataract 31 oct 1851
 * thomas stack married 1851
 * favorita launch
 * uncle same "similar model to brother jonathan". allaire
 * uncle sam launch sep 1852
 * detailed description of ericsson
 * princeton 1848 -mystic58
 * st. marys brig 1845
 * eclipse schooner freeman & co 1852 -mystic58
 * commodore steamer 1000t -mystic58


 * fire 1849 -fulton


 * lady franklin description 1850? -fulton


 * 1851 second most prolific -nyt
 * 1853 ferries with names, others -fulton
 * 3 unnamed 1846 -htrust
 * lady franklin, arctic, san francisco, bro. jonathan, hornet, clipper -htrust
 * ticonderoga, philadelphia, bark jasper, six ferryboats, 1x 1185t ship 1850 -htrust
 * established 1845 -htrust
 * partner names eagle


 * james daniel leary a nephew book
 * 1848 andrew foster eagle
 * early years perrine etc 1848-9, stack's yard 1,000 employees etc eagle
 * fire 1849, ship ticonderago? eagle
 * 1849 ship eagle
 * 1847 ship enterprize eagle


 * 1850 ship arctic eagle
 * 1850 third largest builder -book
 * 1852 3 ferryboats nyt
 * ericsson pps jan 1853 nyt
 * partners split, own businesses book
 * 1850 ship eagle
 * 1852 ss uncle sam nyt
 * 1853 2 steamers, 1 clipper 1 barque nyt
 * dissolved jul 1853 -fulton
 * aug 1853 split into two firms, yankee blade, old and new yard locations, nyt


 * oct 1853 own yard, yankee blade others nyt
 * stack takes over yard -fulton


 * active, r. porta, schooner 150t, texas -fulton
 * perine, bola de oro, jackson st ferry 180t, new york others 1846 -ca
 * mamlouk 1847 -npc
 * niagara onalaska ferries 1849 -gbook
 * city of williamsburg 1852, niagara, onalaska cudahy p. 441, 433.
 * martha 1852 cudahy p. 442.
 * greenpoint 1852 cudahy p. 443.
 * star of the west, arctic, lady franklin, san francisco 1850 -web
 * 2x barks, 1x brig, 1x clipper 1853 -nyt
 * ada swift 1852 -nyt and 3x 500t ferries -nyt


 * mount calvery, greenpoint, city of williamsburg ferries 1852 -fulton
 * sep 1851 cataract -fulton


 * st charles capt sagory, tonnage, andrew foster tonnage two others -fulton


 * yankee blade, heloise, wide awake, velocity curtis & co, brig for mm freeman -fulton


 * uncle same description -fulton


 * brig favourita freeman & co feb 1852 -fulton


 * clipper schooner rapid, sep 1851 -fulton


 * philadelphia original owner, dimensions -fulton


 * ino advert 1851 -fulton


 * schooner for mcready, 10 ton steamer, brig hanover for b blanco, bark for elwell all 1851 -fulton


 * star of the west nice description black ball line? -fulton


 * heloise 1855 passage quickest on record -fulton


 * ericsson machinery removed -fulton


 * flying cloud launch, uncle same fastest -fulton


 * uncle sam launch -fulton


 * 1848 bark texas wakeman july -fulton


 * r porta details -fulton


 * ericsson other builders -fulton


 * feb 1846 150 ton schooner n. perine other builders -fulton


 * ericsson other builders -fulton


 * ferry canada 1851 -fulton


 * ferry, brig 300 tons, "pennsylvania" (probably philadelphia), west pt foundry, other builders -fulton


 * perine patterson launches 1854 -fulton


 * wide awake launch -fulton


 * antelope launch -fulton


 * city of pittsburg description -fulton


 * schooner a l mcready, 320 ton brig for freeman, also capes and allison ships inc. virginia sep 1851 -fulton


 * uncle same trial trip -fulton


 * stack retires about 1867, leary keeps name until about 1886 -fulton