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Bristol & Providence ships built

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Shipbuilder William Henry Webb installed the largest engines built in the US to date, capable of transporting 1200 passengers into state-of-the-art sister ships, Bristol & Providence.

Established, 1866
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1883
The Bristol is one of the ships shown passing under the newly completed Brooklyn Bridge.

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The steamboat Bristol, built in New York by William H. Webb in 1865–1867.

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1866
Casting the mammoth cylinder of either Bristol or Providence—probably Bristol—at the Etna Iron Works

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The steamboat Providence, built in New York in 1865–1867 by William H. Webb.

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A lithograph of Bristol (foreground) passing her sister Providence at midnight on Long Island Sound

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