106 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



ary War is said to have kept twenty ship- 

 yards constantly busy and to have had 

 sixty vessels at one time on the stocks, after 

 1800 built fewer vessels but of a larger ton- 

 nage. 1 Pembroke and the other towns on 

 the North River not only employed four 

 hundred ship carpenters, 2 but were tech- 

 nical schools whose graduates were eagerly 

 sought whenever ship-building was carried 

 on. 



New Haven, Connecticut, in her three 

 shipyards employed one hundred carpen- 

 ters, 3 and Derby and New London turned 

 out many fine vessels. New York, prior to 

 the War of 1812, had three large shipyards, 

 all on the East River. Her most noted ship 

 designers were Henry Eckford, who after- 

 wards built the war ships on the lakes, and 

 Christian Burgh, the builder of the frigate 

 "President." 4 The number of vessels 



1 N. E. Gen. and Hist. Register, vol. 24, p. 279. 



2 Ship-building on the North River, p. 69. 



3 New Haven Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. 3, p. 168. 



4 Memorial History of New York, vol. iii, p. 257. 



