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Thomas Edward Quayle was the oldest of the three brothers, and probably the mainstay of the company. He was born at Newburgh, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, on July 26, 1836. Thomas led an adventurous life. In 1858 he sailed as supercargo on board his father's bark, the D. C. Pierce, on a voyage from the lakes to England. He later commanded the Pierce and entered the grain trade, sailing throughout the Mediterranean-Black Sea area. In 1861, while on a voyage from Cuba for England, the Pierce was so severely damaged that she was brought into Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs. Captain Charles Gale, another noted Lake captain, joined Quayle to carry out the necessary repairs. As the work was being completed the Civil War broke out. The Pierce was scuttled by Confederates and her crew was imprisoned. Through influential friends Gale was released and several days later Quayle and the rest of the crew escaped. They made their way to the Union frigate Minnesota, then lying off Hampton Roads. Quayle enlisted in the Union Navy as a master's mate. He finished out the War on board the gunboat Whitehead, one of the blocking squadron off Pamlico Sound. At the end of the War Thomas Quayle returned to Cleveland where he worked in his father's shipyard. In 1865 he married Captain Gale's daughter, Anna. In 1892, when the shipyard was discontinued, Thomas Quayle retired. He died at Cleveland on August 15, 1896. George L. Quayle who was born in Cleveland in 1842, served as a private in the 84th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and in the 7th Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War. After returning to Cleveland he, too, went to work in his father's shipyard. When the firm closed its doors, George, who was experienced in many phases of vessel construction, accepted the job of manager with the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company in Cleveland. He was also a director of the Wilson Transit Company and served for several years as president of the Dry Dock Association of the Great Lakes. He retired from active participation in the shipbuilding scenes about 1898. In 1872, Stephen F. Langell and William H. Radcliffe formed a partnership and started a shipyard in the Old River Bed, at the foot of Taylor Street (West 54th Street). Langell was formerly the yard foreman for Elihu M. Peck. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1829 and came to the United States in 1835. Eventually his family moved to Cambridge, Ohio, and Langell arrived in Cleveland in 1847. The firm of Radcliffe and Langell built the schooner Genoa (1873) and the propeller Havana (1874). In 1875 they built two tugs, the John Miner and the Triad. 78