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"Walks the waters like a thing of life." Capt. McQueen, ever courteous, attentive, and obliging, is well known as a skillful, experienced seaman; and we confidently predict, that the Constellation will be a particular favorite in the bright galaxy of "stripes and star", that now lights in the pathway of Commerce on our great western lakes. Much credit is due to the taste and enterprise of the master builder of the Constellation, Capt. A. Gillmore, of Charleston. The keel was laid at his ship yard in October last - launched the first of April - and already     "Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home upon the deep."83 After the launching of the Constellation, the Gillmores drop from sight until 1854 so far as launching vessels is concerned. During this time, and only during this time, Cobb and Burnell were busy launching at least seven schooners, two propellers, one bark, and one brig. Included in this number was the three-masted schooner Samuel Strong, launched in 1847, …her timbers having been selected from choice qualities and trimmed entirely free from sap. They were well salted when put together, and the Strong has a coat of metallic cement paint on her bottom and on deck.84 Another famous vessel built by Cobb & Burnell was the bark Eureka, which sailed from Cleveland to San Francisco during the gold rush days of 1849-50. Edmund Gillmore appears once again in 1854 when he built the schooner Peoria. From this date until 1868 he built several schooner-scows and schooners. The last three schooners, Fostoria (1865), W. S. Lyons (1866), and J. U. Porter (1868), were built with Scott Lyons. In 1860 while engaged in caulking the scow Cousin Mary, the center-board settled on him, paralyzing his lower limbs and making a cripple of him for the rest of his life. He later served as the township clerk and as a justice of the peace. Some vessels were built at Globeville, at about Thirteenth Street, and several at Curtiss Mill, where William Curtiss had a saw mill. There he and his son-in-law, Captain John Duff, built the scow Almira (1849), scow Amherst (1847), and scow Nimrod (1857), and the schooner Alice Curtiss (1858) . There were several other builders in Black River between 1827 and 1870, but most of them built only one or two vessels. Too, there is a 50