Matches in DBpedia 2015-04 for { ?s ?p "Reaney, Son & Archbold was a short-lived 19th-century American iron shipbuilding company located on the Delaware River at Chester, Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1859 by Thomas Reaney (formerly of the firm Reaney, Neafie & Levy) but it was undercapitalized from the outset, and like many other American shipbuilding companies, fell victim to the shipbuilding slump that followed the American Civil War. Notable ships built by the company included the Passaic class monitors USS Sangamon and USS Lehigh, and the Casco class monitor USS Tunxis. It also built the sidewheel steamer Samuel M. Felton, which was the fastest ship on the Philadelphia-Wilmington route for some years. After the yard went into receivership in 1871, it was purchased by John Roach, who would subsequently transform it into America's largest, most modern and most productive shipyard from the 1870s through the mid-1880s."@en }
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- Reaney,_Son_&_Archbold abstract "Reaney, Son & Archbold was a short-lived 19th-century American iron shipbuilding company located on the Delaware River at Chester, Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1859 by Thomas Reaney (formerly of the firm Reaney, Neafie & Levy) but it was undercapitalized from the outset, and like many other American shipbuilding companies, fell victim to the shipbuilding slump that followed the American Civil War. Notable ships built by the company included the Passaic class monitors USS Sangamon and USS Lehigh, and the Casco class monitor USS Tunxis. It also built the sidewheel steamer Samuel M. Felton, which was the fastest ship on the Philadelphia-Wilmington route for some years. After the yard went into receivership in 1871, it was purchased by John Roach, who would subsequently transform it into America's largest, most modern and most productive shipyard from the 1870s through the mid-1880s.".