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However, one of their advertisements of that year showing the charges for dry docking vessels is interesting: Schooners exceeding 25 tons, $10; every day they remain after seven days, two dollars; schooners under 25 tons, five dollars; every day after seven days, one dollar; scows, two dollars; every day after three days, fifty cents.38 The first established shipyard in Cleveland was that of Seth W. Johnson. Johnson was born in 1811 at Middle Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. He served his apprenticeship as a shipwright in New England, and arrived in Cleveland in the fall of 1834. He left almost immediately for Perrysburgh where he helped to finish the steamer Commodore Perry. In the spring, 1835, he opened a repair yard in Cleveland, but soon commenced work on the steamboat Robert Fulton. In 1836 he joined with Edward Gillmore, in Black River, to build the steamer Constellation. He then returned to Cleveland to continue his repair yard. This was located on the west side of the Cuyahoga, near the ship channel. Erastus Tisdale and Bemsley Sweet started a shipyard in 1837 and turned out the schooners Ohio (1841) and Scioto (1842). In 1844 Tisdale and Seth Johnson formed a partnership that lasted until 1863. One of their first acts was to build the first marine railway in Cleveland. Their output of vessels was not great. The only vessels actually credited to them were the schooners Trident (1847), Seaman (1848), and Vanguard (1856). Thus one must assume that they were almost exclusively in the ship-repair business. The partnership was dissolved in 1863; Seth Johnson died in 1907. In 1842, two more shipbuilding firms appeared in Cleveland. The Turner Brothers, Samuel A. and Alvin A., located at 7 Oviatte Exchange, launched the brig Burlington on April 4, 1842. In 1844 they launched the brigs Cumberland and Mayflower. These were followed in 1845 by the brig Odd Fellow: The Messrs. Turner's beautiful brig Odd Fellow was launched from their shipyard on Saturday (April 19th). The I. O. O. F. association presented the brig with an elegant suit of colors with due ceremony. The Odd Fellow was rigged ready for sea on the stocks, and the launch and ceremonies drew together quite a large assemblage.39 The Turners built their first propeller, the Lady of the Lake, in 1846, but their most famous propeller was the Northerner, launched on March 15, l851. "Success be with the Northerner, her enterprising owners and Captain B. G. Stewart, an old tar, and fit to command such a boat."40 31