W. & A. Fletcher Company - encyclopedia article about W. & A. Fletcher Company.

W. & A. Fletcher Co. was an American manufacturer of marine boilers and steam engines for Hudson River Steamboats in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The company was located on Hudson St. 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, The Governor Cobb in 1906. The Fletcher Yard constructed the turbines under license from Parsons of England.

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Steamboat Days - Hudson River Steamboats

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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications.^[1]^[2]

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steam engine is an external combustion heat engine that makes use of the heat energy that exists in steam, converting it to mechanical work.

Steam engines were used as the prime mover in pumping stations, locomotives, steam ships, traction engines, steam lorries and other
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Hudson River (Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk or Muhheakantuck)

Looking upriver from the Bear Mountain Bridge

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Hoboken, New Jersey
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Location of Hoboken within Hudson County
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Country United States
State New Jersey
County Hudson

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State of New Jersey

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Nickname(s): Garden State^[1]
Motto(s): Liberty and prosperity

Official language(s) English de facto

Capital Trenton

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The General Slocum was a steamship launched in 1891. She caught fire and burned to the water line in New York's East River on June 15, 1904. More than 1,000 people died in the accident, making it New York City's worst loss-of-life disaster until the September 11, 2001
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Hendrick Hudson, a schooner-rigged screw steamer, was a warship during the American Civil War.

Henry Hudson's History

The ship was built as the commercial steamship Florida in [1859] at [Greenpoint, N.Y.
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turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788-1873) coined the term from the Latin turbinis, or vortex during an 1828 engineering competition.
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Motto
"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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