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SS John Randolph Marker, at City Hall
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: January 2008
Caption: SS John Randolph Marker, at City Hall
Additional Description: This tablet commerates
The "John Randolph"
the first iron vessel seen in American waters
Riveted together and launched here in 1834, the plates having been made by John Laird of Birkenhead, England, and shipped to this port in sections
Built for Gazaway B. Lamar, Banker and Cotton Merchant of Savannah.
The same great iron shipbuilder John Laird built in 1862 the Confederate Cruiser "ALABAMA"
Submitted: January 24, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p14559
File Size: 0.204 Megabytes

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