Lawrence & Foulks

Lawrence & Foulks
Former type Private
Industry Shipbuilding
Fate Closed
Founded 1850
Founder(s) William Foulks
Defunct 1902
Headquarters Williamsburg, later Greenpoint, United States
Products Wooden-hulled steamships and other watercraft
Services Ship repairs
Owner(s) William Foulks
Herbert Lawrence (Jr.)
Employees 150 (1865)

Lawrence & Foulks was a 19th-century American shipbuilding company based in New York. Established in the early 1850s, the company built 144 vessels of all types over the course of some fifty years, but is best known for its production of high-speed wooden-hulled steamboats and steamships. Notable vessels built by the company include the record-breaking Hudson River steamboat Chauncey Vibbard, the luxury Long Island Sound steamer Commonwealth, and the fast oceangoing steamships—later U.S. Navy gunboats—Bienville and De Soto. In addition to the domestic market, the company also built ships for service as far afield as South America and China.

Lawrence & Foulks was one of the few New York shipyards to survive the post-Civil War slump, but was either unwilling or unable to make the postwar transition from wooden to iron shipbuilding, and closed its doors around the turn of the century.

Contents

History

Origins, 1850–54

In 1850, William Foulks, a British-born ship's carpenter then aged 37, partnered with a young engineer named Humphrey Crary to build a steamboat in New York, which was named Catherine after Foulks' wife.[1] Foulks received contracts to build several more vessels over the next two years.[1][2] At this time, his shipyard was located at the foot of Cherry Street, Manhattan.[3]

By 1852, Foulks had established a partnership with Herbert Lawrence, and the company was renamed Lawrence & Foulks.[4] Lawrence, then barely in his twenties, was the son of Herbert Lawrence Sr., former co-proprietor of the prominent early New York shipbuilding firm of Lawrence & Sneden.[5] By 1854, the Lawrence & Foulks shipyard had relocated to North Fifth Street, Williamsburg[6] (now a part of Brooklyn), where it would remain for the next 17 years.[7]

Plant, equipment and labor force

While the specific plant and equipment utilized by Lawrence & Foulks is not known, wooden shipbuilding firms in this era could be established for a remarkably small outlay—as little as $11,000, and rarely more than $20,000. Tradesmen at this time mostly supplied their own tools, so a shipyard needed little more than 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.[8]

Since New York was already well served by a number of existing marine engine plants, Lawrence & Foulks, like the other New York shipyards, had no need to establish an expensive engine plant of its own, but could rely upon outsourcing for its steamship engines. Companies which would build marine engines for Lawrence & Foulks prior to the Civil War included leading firms such as the Allaire Iron Works, Morgan Iron Works, Henry Esler & Co. and the Novelty Iron Works. After the war, when many of New York's marine engine manufacturers went out of business, Lawrence & Foulks appears to have come increasingly to rely upon New Jersey's Fletcher, Harrison & Co. to meet its machinery requirements.[9]

As with other shipbuilders of the era, the size of Lawrence & Foulks' workforce could fluctuate greatly depending upon the available work. The company appears to have employed about 50 people for every ship under construction, and it was capable of building as many as four ships at once.[10]

Early years, 1850s–1860

Through the 1850s, Lawrence & Foulks built a number of steamers and other vessels for South American clients, including the 300-ton Spanish steamers General Concha and General Serrano for Cuban service;[11][12] a large steamer for the Río de la Plata;[13] and two small high-pressure riverboats for the Peruvian government destined for service on the Amazon.[14] Two 1,300-ton steamers for Californian service were also completed.[13]

In 1855, Lawrence & Foulks completed construction of the Long Island Sound steamer Commonwealth. Setting a new standard of elegance for Sound steamers, this large, lavishly outfitted steamer quickly became a favorite with the travelling public.[15][16] In 1859–60, Lawrence & Foulks built the fast oceangoing steamships De Soto and Bienville, sister ships designed for passenger-cargo service between New York and New Orleans. Both vessels were later purchased by the U.S. Navy and would serve with distinction during the Civil War as gunboats.[17][18]

American Civil War, 1861–65

With the outbreak of the Civil War, the U.S. Navy quickly purchased or chartered hundreds of ships from private steamship companies, which were needed to establish the blockade of Confederate ports and to transport troops and supplies along the Atlantic coast. The steamship companies were then obliged to return to the shipyards to replace their fleets, only to find themselves vying with the Navy which needed still more ships. The strong demand for new shipping created boom conditions for American shipyards which would last to the end of the war.[19][20] New York shipyards in this period also benefited from the Treaty of Tianjin. Ratified in 1860, the treaty gave U.S. companies increased access to Chinese waterways and ports,[21] which in turn stimulated demand for steamboats and steamships for Chinese service.[22]

In 1861-62 Lawrence & Foulks completed at least three screw steamers for U.S. companies operating in China: Flambeau, Kiang-Tsze and Sze-Chuen. The latter two were duly despatched to China but Flambeau was purchased by the U.S. Navy to serve as the gunboat USS Flambeau.[23][24][25] The company also completed a number of screw steamers for domestic American service during the war, including Isaac Smith, D. S. Miller and John L. Hasbrouck, all for Hudson River service. After a few months on the Hudson, Isaac Smith, like Flambeau, was requisitioned by the Navy for conversion into a gunboat.[23] All the above-mentioned screw steamers were powered by beam-propeller engines[23]—a transitional technology that mated the old, slow-rpm beam engine with the screw propeller by mounting the engine athwartships and gearing it up (at a ratio of one to three or more) to the propeller shaft.[26]

Another newly-built Lawrence & Foulks ship to be requisitioned by the Navy at this time was the small sidewheel steamer Thomas Freeborn. In an attack on Mathias Point, Virginia on 27 June 1861, Thomas Freeborn's commander, James H. Ward, became the first U.S. Navy officer killed in action in the war.[27]

In 1864, Lawrence & Foulks completed the Hudson River steamboat Chauncey Vibbard. Soon after entering service, the 280-foot vessel proved to be the fastest steamer on the highly competitive route from New York to Albany, making the trip in a new record time of 6 hours 42 minutes. With boilers carefully balanced to eliminate vibration, and a hull said to "cut the water as a knife blade",[28] Chauncey Vibbard helped establish a reputation for Lawrence & Foulks as America's leading designers of high-speed watercraft.[29]

Postwar slump, 1865–70

With the end of the war in April 1865, the U.S. shipbuilding industry experienced a severe downturn. The Navy dumped more than a million tons of unwanted shipping onto the market, depressing prices and leaving shipyards with no work. High postwar prices, along with a series of bitter (and unsuccessful) strikes for the eight-hour day, helped prolong the slump to the end of the decade. The slump had a devastating effect on the New York shipbuilding industry, with most of the city's shipbuilders and marine engine manufacturers going out of business in this period.[30][31]

Lawrence & Foulks was one of only four New York shipyards to survive the prolonged slump,[32] aided in part by a flurry of orders in 1864-65. Livingston, Fox & Co., preparing to resume its prewar New York to New Orleans service, ordered a total of six sub-1000 ton steamers from Lawrence & Foulks in this period, including Herman Livingston, General J. K. Barnes and the four sister ships Albermarle, Hatteras, Raleigh and Rapidan.[33] Two large 1,300 ton steamers, Vera Cruz and Manhattan, were also built in 1865 for Charles A. Whitney's American and Mexican Mail Steamship Company.[34] In 1866, Lawrence & Foulks built the 2,200-ton steamship Oregonian for Californian service[35]—probably the largest steamship ever built by the company.

By 1869 the slump had reached its nadir. Lawrence & Foulks managed to secure a couple of contracts early in the year, for the ferry Sylvan Glen and a small 100-ton steamer, but by September, only one vessel was under construction in the whole of New York.[36]

Recovery, 1871–73

The long postwar slump finally ended in 1871, as shipowners began to return to U.S. shipyards to replace their ageing fleets. In April 1871, after almost twenty years at Williamsburg, Lawrence & Foulks relocated their shipyard to the foot of Noble Street, Greenpoint,[37][7] on the site of E. S. Whitlock's former shipyard, who had retired from the business in 1865.[38] The new shipyard had a frontage of 200 feet along the river and 500 feet on land.[32]

From 1871 to 1873, New York shipyards remained busy. By this time however, the larger oceangoing steamship contracts were going to the builders of iron-hulled ships on the Delaware—to firms such as John Roach & Sons, William Cramp and Sons, and Harlan and Hollingsworth—leaving New York shipbuilders to fulfill contracts for smaller vessels such as ferries, commuter and excursion steamers, steam yachts and tugboats.[39]

Lawrence & Foulks secured a substantial number of such contracts in this period. A notable example was Sylvan Dell, a ferry built for the Harlem & New York Navigation Company. With a speed in excess of 20 mph,[40] Sylvan Dell was New York Harbor's fastest vessel in her class, and remained popular with the public for many years, eventually being dubbed "Queen of New York Harbor".[41][42][43] In 1873, Lawrence & Foulks built Jennie Stout—the first schooner built in New York since the war, and the largest three-masted schooner built there to that date.[44]

Decline and closure, 1873–1902

The brief early 1870s boom came to an abrupt end with the Panic of 1873. The subsequent recession would drag on until 1879, but by 1875 there was a widespread recognition that this time there would be no recovery for New York shipyards. Not only were the iron shipbuilders of the Delaware now dominating the contracts for larger ships, but the locus of wooden shipbuilding in the U.S. had moved to the state of Maine, where lower prices for timber, and lower wages, enabled the construction of wooden-hulled vessels as much as 20% cheaper as in New York.[31][32]

The extent of New York's decline as a shipbuilding center from 1873 is well illustrated by the fortunes of Lawrence & Foulks itself. In the 24 years from 1851 to 1875, Lawrence & Foulks built a total of 122 vessels,[12] an average of more than five per year. In the firm's remaining 25 years, from 1876 to 1901, it built only another 22 vessels, an average of less than one per year.[45] Among the latter were San Rafael and Saucelito, sister ferries built in 1877 which were shipped overland in pieces to San Francisco. After reassembly, the two vessels quickly established themselves as the fastest ferries on the Bay.[46][47]

Among the last notable steamers built by Lawrence & Foulks were Albertina, built in 1882 for the Red Bank Line, and the steam yacht Clermont for Commodore Alfred van Santvoord of the New York and Albany Line.[29] In August 1886, William Foulks fell from scaffolding while inspecting a vessel at his shipyard, suffering internal injuries. He died at home, aged 74, a few days later.[48][49] His partner, Herbert Lawrence, retired not long after, but maintained the shipyard until shortly before he died, aged 73, in 1902.[50][51] In total, the Lawrence & Foulks shipyard built 144 vessels of all types in the fifty years to 1901.[50]

List of ships

The first table below lists ships known to have been built by William Foulks, probably before his partnership with Herbert Lawrence. The second table lists ships built by Lawrence & Foulks. The two lists combined currently represent 101 of the 144 ships known to have been built by Foulks alone or by Lawrence & Foulks. In addition to the ships listed below, Lawrence & Foulks also designed the model for the Hudson River steamer Albany, but as she had an iron hull the construction contract went to Harlan and Hollingsworth.[52]

Vessels which had more than one name during their career have their later names listed below the original name, followed (where available) by a two-digit number representing the last two digits of the year in which the rename took place. In the following tables, "n/a" stands for not available (i.e. not known). For other abbreviations, see the linked notes in the table column headers.

Ships built by William Foulks, 1850–52
Name[53] Type [54] Built [55] Ton. [56] Engine [57] Ordered by[58] Intended service Notes
Catherine [1] SB 1850 n/a n/a n/a n/a Built in partnership with Humphrey Crary and named after Foulks' wife.
n/a [2] Scn 1851 76 none Mexican Govt. Mexico
n/a [2] Scn 1851 76 none Mexican Govt. Mexico
Peter Crary
Hazel Kirke
Naiad [1]		 T 1852 n/a n/a Reuben Coffin and others New York Harbor Abandoned 1919
Ships built by Lawrence & Foulks, 1852–1901
Name[53] Type [54] Built [55] Ton. [56] Engine [57] Ordered by[58] Intended service Notes
n/a [4] F 1852 500 n/a George Law New York Harbor "to run in the People's Ferry to Staten Island"
n/a [4] F 1852 n/a Allaire n/a New York "for Green Point"
n/a [4] F 1852 n/a Allaire n/a New York "for the Houston street ferry"
n/a [4] F 1852 n/a Allaire n/a New York "for the Williamsburgh ferry"
n/a [4] SS 1852 n/a Allaire "Capt. Day" Gulf of Mexico
Josephine [59]
Henry E. Bishop		 F 1852 n/a n/a Tompkinsville & Stapleton FC New York
Joseph Johnson [4][60] T 1852 240 n/a Parks & Duvall New York Harbor
n/a [13] S 1853 1,300+ n/a n/a Rio de la Plata
n/a [13] S 1853 1,300 n/a n/a California
n/a [13] S 1853 1,300 n/a n/a California
n/a [14] RB 1853 120 Fulton Peruvian Govt Amazon River
n/a [14] RB 1853 80 Fulton Peruvian Govt Amazon River
J. S. Underhill [61] T 1853 n/a n/a n/a n/a
William H. Brown [61] SB 1853 450 n/a n/a n/a
n/a [6] F 1854 n/a n/a n/a New York Houston St. ferry
Henry Munsi [62] T 1854 150 n/a A. O. Jackson n/a "Harbor towing"
Neptune [62] SB 1854 160 n/a Peter Crany Boston Harbor
Surprise [63] S 1854 456 n/a Edgar Wakeman Pacific Coast
Commonwealth SB 1855 1,732 Morgan Norwich & New London SBC Long Island Sound Destroyed by fire at Groton, CT, 1865
Corilla [64] B 1856 600 none Johnson & Lowden "for the South American trade"
John Farrow [64] SS 1856 500 n/a n/a n/a "for a New York company"
James A. Stevens [64] T 1856 100 n/a Palmer & Crary New York
n/a [64] T 1857 100 n/a Peter Crary New York
n/a [64] T 1857 100 n/a Roy, Coffin & Co New York?
n/a [64] S 1857 300 n/a "Captain Porter" New Orleans—Mobile
General Concha [12] S 1857 300 Birkbecks Spanish Govt. Cuba
General Serrano [12] S 1857? 300 n/a Spanish Govt. Cuba
n/a [65] Scn 1858 150 none Spanish Govt. Cuba For dredging Matanzas harbor
n/a [65] Scn 1858 150 none Spanish Govt. Cuba As above
n/a [65] Scn 1858 150 none Spanish Govt. Cuba As above
n/a [66] F 1859 60 n/a n/a Havana, Cuba
De Soto SS 1859 1,675 Morgan Livingston, Crocheron & Co. NY–New Orleans USN gunboat, 1861-68. Destroyed by fire south of New Orleans, 1870
Bienville SS 1860 1,558 Morgan Livingston, Crocheron & Co. NY–New Orleans USN gunboat 1861-65. Destroyed by fire at sea off Bahamas 1872, 41 killed
Thomas Freeborn [67] T 1860 n/a Allaire Richard M. Squires New York? USN gunboat 1861–65. Her commander James H. Ward was first USN officer killed in Civil War.[27]
William Foulks
Venezuela [68][69]		 S 1859 293 n/a Dallett & Bliss n/a Sold to Venezuelan Navy, 1860
Flambeau P 1861 791 Esler P. S. Forbes & Co China USN gunboat 1861-65. Grounded, wrecked at New Inlet, N.C. 1867
Isaac Smith
CSS Stono 63		 P 1861 453? Fletcher Hamilton & Smith Hudson River USN gunboat 1861-63. Captured by Confederacy 1863, renamed Stono, fate uncertain
n/a [70] P 1862 160 Polly Carey & Co. n/a
n/a [70] P 1862 160 Polly Carey & Co. n/a
n/a [70] P 1862 160 Polly Bronder & Borlis n/a
D. S. Miller [23][71]
Poughkeepsie		 P 1862 593 Fletcher Hamilton & Smith Hudson River
James F. Freeborn [72] S 1862 380 Fletcher Richard M. Squires et al
John S. Williams [71] P 1862 170 Stanton B. U. Crary New York Harbor
Paquete de Maule [73] S 1862 400 Novelty G. K. Stevenson & Co Chile Gunboat during Chincha Islands War, captured and scuttled by Spain, 1866
Kiang-Tsze [24] P 1863 1,100 Esler P. S. Forbes & Co China
Sze-Chuen [25] P 1863 1,090 Esler P. S. Forbes & Co Yangtze R., China
John L. Hasbrouck [23]
Marlboro		 P 1864 710n n/a Hamilton & Smith Hudson River Broken up, 1917
Chauncey Vibbard [74][28] SB 1864 1,158 Fletcher A. Van Santvoord Hudson River Record fast time NY-Albany 1864; lengthened, re-engined 1866; rebuilt 1880; broken up 1902
Clara Clarita [75] SY 1864 231 Novelty Leonard Jerome New York All-time steamboat speed record on Penobscot Bay. Abandoned 1908
Oriflamme [76] SS 1864 1,204 Morgan U.S. Navy Civil War Built for Civil War service but sold on completion. Scrapped on or after 1878
General J. K. Barnes [77] SS 1864 1,365 Morgan Atlantic Coast Mail SSC NY–New Orleans Sunk by hurricane off Cape Hatteras, 1878
Herman Livingston [78] SS 1864 1,314 Morgan Atlantic Coast Mail SSC NY–New Orleans Scrapped after 1878
Albemarle [79] SS 1865 871 Morgan Atlantic Coast Mail SSC NY–New Orleans Barge 1882; schooner 1883; sunk in squall 1885
Hatteras [80] SS 1865 868 Morgan Atlantic Coast Mail SSC NY–New Orleans Schooner barge, 1882
Raleigh [81] SS 1865 868 Morgan Atlantic Coast Mail SSC NY–New Orleans Caught fire and sank off Charleston, S.C. 1867, 24 killed
Rapidan [82] SS 1865 868 Morgan Atlantic Coast Mail SSC NY–New Orleans Disappeared en route to West Indies, 1886
Sleepy Hollow [83] SB 1865 n/a Secor Lower Hudson SBC
Manhattan [84] SS 1865 1,337 Morgan Amer. & Mexican Mail SSC Schooner barge, 1877; sunk 1882
Vera Cruz [85] SS 1865 1,340 Morgan Amer. & Mexican Mail SSC Struck and sank near Oregon Inlet, N.C. 1866
n/a [86] SB 1865 360 n/a n/a NY–Stamford, CT
Maspeth [87] F 1866 n/a n/a n/a New York "to be placed on the Grand and Houston street ferry"
Oregonian [35] SS 1866 2,200 Allaire Oregon SNC West coast Scrapped on or after 1886
Isaac Bell [88] SS 1868 1,500 Allaire Old Dominion SSC n/a
Sylvan Glen [89] F 1869 350 Fletcher Harlem SBC New York Scrapped 1915
n/a [36] PY 1869 100 n/a "Mr. Cheeseborough" n/a
Americus
Myndert Starin
Newark [90][91]		 SB 1870 600 Burdon Norwalk Line NY-Greenwich, CT
James G. Bennett [92] PB 1870 n/a n/a n/a New York
n/a [37] SB 1871 n/a Burdon New Bedford & Nantucket SBC NY–Nantucket
n/a [93] T 1871 n/a Reaney n/a "to replace the Phenix"
Farragut [37][94] F 1871 n/a n/a Fulton FC New York Harbor Iron hull by Continental Iron Works
Fulton [37][94] F 1871 n/a n/a Fulton FC New York Harbor Iron hull by Continental Iron Works
Harlem [95] SB 1871 n/a Fletcher Morrisania SBC
Morrisania [37] F 1871 n/a Burdon n/a New York
Sylvan Dell [96] SB 1872 440 Fletcher Harlem & New York NC New York Struck and sank, 1919
Midland [97] F 1872 n/a n/a New Jersey Midland R.
Day Star [98][99] SB 1873 n/a Burdon American SBC Long Island Sound
Amos C. Barstow [100] SB 1873 n/a n/a n/a NY-Providence
Fidelity [101][102][103] PL 1873 n/a n/a Commissioners of Charities & Correction New York Sunk in collision, East River, 1879
Jane Mosely [104] S 1873 n/a n/a Long Island RRC Long Island Sound
Jennie Stout [44][105] Scn 1873 600 none F. Alexander & Son NY-Savannah "largest three-masted schooner ever built" in New York. Sank in storm off Cape Hatteras 1875, 8 killed
Jessamine [101][102] S 1873 n/a n/a Revenue Service n/a
Governor Andrew [106][107] S 1874 503 Fletcher Boston & Hingham SBC Boston–Hingham
n/a [12] SB 1875 n/a n/a City of Boston Boston Harbor "to convey prisoners to Deer Island"
n/a [12] SB 1875 n/a n/a St. John's Guild New York Floating Hospital
Crystal Wave [108] SB 1875 700 Hubbard American SBC Long Island Sound
Fanwood [109] F 1876 1,300 Fletcher New Jersey Central RR n/a "Monster ferry"
Saucelito [110][46] S 1877 692 Fletcher n/a San Francisco Shipped overland in sections to S.F. Destroyed by fire, 1884
San Rafael [110][46] S 1877 692 Fletcher n/a San Francisco Shipped overland in sections to S.F. Collision off Alcatraz Island, 1901
n/a [111] RB 1879 n/a n/a n/a NY–Yonkers
Northampton [110] PC 1880 483 n/a Old Dominion SSC n/a Caught fire and beached at Norfolk, VA 1898
n/a [112] SL 1881 n/a Sullivan Old Dominion SSC n/a
Albertina [29][112] SB 1882 n/a Fletcher Red Bank Line
F. P. James
Bronx 02 [110]		 F 1884 445 n/a n/a n/a Broken up 1917
Jacob H. Tremper [110] SS 1885 571 n/a n/a n/a Broken up 1929
Haarlaem
Harlem 22 [110]		 F 1889 382 n/a New York & East River FC New York? Abandoned 1927
Clermont [29] SY 1892 n/a n/a A. Van Santvoord

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