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For the past three or four years the shipwrights of our city have shown a laudable emulation in rivaling each other in the model and workmanship of each successive craft, until it is acknowledged over all the lakes that it you want a steamboat, propeller, or sail vessel built as she should be for speed, strength, symmetry, and capacity, you must come here to have it done. This universal credit, having been gained by being deserving of it, gives constant employment to all our shipyards, and our worthy and hardworking mechanics have gathered fame in their profession which will securely retain the confidence of vessel owners.54 In 1849, Luther Moses entered into a partnership with Thomas Quayle which lasted three years. They were located in Block 2 of the Old River Bed. After this, Moses joined with his brother, Philo, in a yard located on the Old River Bed, opposite Elm Street. From 1852 until 1858, they launched no less than twenty steamers, including the Granite State, Nile, Ogdensburgh, Westmoreland, T. U. Bradbury, Cuyahoga, Dakotah, Wenona, Mendota, Galena, and Susquehanna. Thomas Quayle of the firm Moses & Quayle (1849-1852), was born on the Isle of Man on May 9, 1811. He arrived in Cleveland in 1827, and learned the shipbuilding trade from Fairbanks Church of Huron, Ohio. He worked as a journeyman until he associated himself with John Cody in 1847. Their yard was just below the Columbus Street bridge, on the east side of the river. Here they built the brig Shakespeare in 1848. The following year Cody left for California. From 1849 to 1852, Quayle was with Luther Moses. Then, in 1854, he formed a partnership with John Martin which lasted until 1873. John Martin was born in County Antrim, Ireland, on December 15, 1824, and come to Montreal, Canada, at the age of nine. When he was fourteen, he began working in a shipyard at Montreal. In 1840, Martin moved to the shipyard of George Weeks, at French Creek, New York. When Weeks moved to Oswego, Martin went with him for an additional two years. Then Martin went to Detroit where he worked on the steamboat Wisconsin for a year. Finally, in 1844 he arrived in Cleveland where, with his fine shipbuilding background, he found employment with George Washington Jones on the Empire. After this Martin did some sub- contracting, wrecking, planking, etc. It was during this time that he did some work for Moses and Quayle. This was his first association with Thomas Quayle. Martin contracted to build the brig John G. Deshler in 1853, which provided him the necessary capital to go into business with Thomas Quayle. 36