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tee of Webb Institute of Naval Architecture for the sixteen years prior to his death. He 
was one of the “1893” members of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 
To all of these interests he was most faithful and his counsel of great importance. He 
will be remembered by all who knew him as having been the cheerful, conservative, cour- 
teous gentleman and friend whom it was an especial pleasure to meet. 
He died of pneumonia on January 18, 1922. 
WILLIAM STEELE ROGERS 
MEMBER 
Mr. Rogers was born December 25, 1859. He entered the service of the Fall River 
Line, June 21, 1879, and remained with this line and the other lines of the New England 
Steamship Company continuously from that date until his death on October 8, 1922, a period 
of over forty-three years. After serving in various capacities on the steamers and in the 
repair shops of this company, he entered the drawing room, where he was successively 
draughtsman and chief draughtsman. He assisted in the design and construction of its 
various new vessels, among them the steamers Puritan, Priscilla, Plymouth, Providence, 
Commonwealth, Bunker Hill, Massachusetts and Old Colony. In addition to the above work 
he designed and superintended construction of various steamers built by the Boston, Re- 
vere Beach & Lynn Railroad, Nantucket Steamboat Company, and others. He became a 
member of this Society in 1910. 
CHARLES LINCOLN SEABURY 
MEMBER 
Mr. Seabury was born at Tiverton, R. I., on August 4, 1860, and at an early age 
began work in the marine store of A. B. Babbitt at Tiverton, later going to the Herreshoff 
Yacht Works at Bristol, R. I. From there he joined the Gas Engine & Power Company as 
Superintendent and Chief Engineer. This company was then builders of smali boats. Here 
he was instrumental in developing the naphtha engine, forerunner of the gasoline motor. In 
1889 Mr. Seabury established the Charles L. Seabury & Company, with William J. Parslow, 
and Jas. M. Colvin as partners, located at Nyack, N. Y., to carry on the construction of high- 
speed steam yachts. During this period of his career he produced the Seabury Safety Water 
Tube Boiler, which was and still is used where high steam pressures and quick steaming 
are required. 
In 1896 his company business was consolidated with the Gas Engine and Power Com- 
pany, at Morris Heights, N. Y., and for many years he acted as vice-president and general 
superintendent engineer of this corporation, which was the Gas Engine & Power Company and 
Charles L. Seabury & Company, Consolidated. In addition to yacht work, several torpedo 
boat destroyers and gunboats for the United States Navy were built at the yard. During 
his career, more than 2,000 vessels were designed and built, including the Embla, Kanawha, 
Hiawatha, Allegro, Vitesse, Little Sovereign, and Sovereign, the latter having a record speed 
of 40 miles per hour over the measured mile course. 
