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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cramp, Charles Henry 1828- (search)
Cramp, Charles Henry 1828- Ship-builder; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 9, 1828; son of William Cramp; received a public school education; learned the ship-building trade with his father; became a partner in the firm of William Cramp & Son, and subsequently president of William Cramp & Son Ship and Engine Building Company, the largest shipbuilding concern in the United States. From the Cramp yards have been turned out many of the best-known ships of the American naval and mercantile services. See navigation legislation.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
ls, forfeiture of the fishing bounties. On April, 1818, an act was passed closing the ports of the United States against British vessels from any British colonial port into which American vessels were not admitted. This policy, which totally failed of its object, was kept up for twelve years, and then abandoned. History of legislation. The following resume of the navigation laws of the United States, and the development of the ship-building industry under them, is contributed by Charles H. Cramp, president of the Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, Pa. When one traces the history of the navigation laws of the United States, beginning with the act of Dec. 31, 1792, which closed American registry to foreignbuilt vessels except as to prizes taken in war, down to the present time, there appears cumulative evidence that the policy had its origin in the spirit of national independence, commercial as well as political. Superficial students and shallow