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Quayle and Martin maintained a yard on the south side of the channel of the Old River Bed, just east of the old Willow Street bridge. The yard was so close to the Willow Street Bridge that the bridge was damaged by waves when the bark C. J. Kershaw was launched on July 4, 1857. The late 1850's were good to Quayle and Martin. They turned out several vessels each year, with such intriguing names as Gold Hunter, Middlesex, Star of Hope, Lady Franklin, Saranac, Parana, Howell Hoppock, and Darley. Shipbuilding was rapidly reaching a climax in Cleveland: There is scarcely a vacancy in the shipyards this season (1857). Almost every portion of the river front is occupied beginning at Main st. A number of buildings on Old island, near Willow st. bridge, are being used by shipbuilders.55 Quayle and Martin, as well as other builders, began to take on an inter- national flavor as they began to build vessels for possible trade with Europe. Such was the case with the schooner Dean Richmond (1856) and barks C. J. Kershaw (1857), Ravenna (1861), Howell Hoppock (1862), and Etowah (1863). In 1860 the Russian government sent out a corps of engineers to visit world shipyards to obtain all possible information for future expansion. On May1st of that year they visited Quayle and Martin to obtain models and information on shoal water vessels and tugs.56 In 1863, when the Atlantic & Western Railroad decided to build a depot, and the Mahoning Railroad extended their facilities to the region surrounding the Old River Bed, Quayle and Martin moved their shipyard to the Scranton Flats area, locating on the east side of the river, between the Seneca Street bridge and the bridge of the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad. That would place them today just north of the Central Viaduct, on an extension of Stones Levee. From this yard the firm continued their tremendous construction pace. Most of Alva Bradley's fleet of wooden vessels was built here, including the Ahira Cobb, Alva Bradley, Leonard Hanna, and Camden. Among others, Quayle and Martin also built the propellers Dean Richmond (1864), Ironsides (1864), Michael Groh (1867), B. W. Blanchard (1870), Joseph S. Fay (1871), Fayette (1872) and Selah Chamberlain (1873). They also built the finely modelled tugs Satellite, Montauk (1864), Thomas Quayle, Sweepstakes (1867), Compound (1868), and James H. Martin (1869). Then, on April 15, 1873, John Martin died. Thomas Quayle brought his sons, Thomas F. and George L., into the firm, now called Thomas Quayle & Sons. At about this same time, another of Thomas's sons, William H. Quayle, formed a partnership with Thomas F. Murphy. 37