W. & A. Fletcher Co. was an American manufacturer of marine boilers and steam engines for Hudson River Steamboats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Originally Fletcher, Harrison & Co., the company was located on Hudson Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. They built engines for many famous Hudson River Day Line steamers and others, in both vertical walking beam and inclined compound types.
Some of the ships they fabricated engines for included the General Slocum, the Hendrick Hudson and the Adirondack. They also built the engine for the first turbine-propelled commercial ship built in the United States, Governor Cobb in 1906. The Fletcher Yard constructed the turbines under license from Parsons of England.
W. & A. Fletcher Co. was merged with five other New York based shipbuilding/ship repair companies to form United Dry Docks, Inc. in February 1929.[1]