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L. Y. Spear was laid down by General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 5 May 1966; launched on 7 September 1967; sponsored by the wife of Vice Admiral Schade, Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet; and commissioned on 28 February 1970.
Cable was employed by the Electro-Dynamic Company owned by financier Isaac Rice and William Woodnut Griscom.Rice was a financial supporter of inventor John Phillip Holland, whose Holland Torpedo Boat Company (the forerunner and precursor to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation) was developing a prototype submarine, Holland VI, for the United States Navy.
PT-42 was commissioned by the United States Navy and laid down on 5 May 1941 at the Elco Works of the Electric Launch Company (now Electric Boat Company) at their Bayonne, New Jersey shipyard; launched on 12 July 1941; and completed on 25 July 1941. [1]
Isaac Leopold Rice (February 22, 1850 – November 2, 1915) was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron. [1] As part of a successful career in the manufacturing industry, in 1899 he acquired the Holland Torpedo Boat Company, which was renamed the Electric Boat Company and produced submarines for the U.S. and British navies.
Spear served as president from 1942 to 1947, running the company during World War II, when it was a leading producer of submarines. He served as chairman of the board from 1947 until his death on 9 September 1950. Electric Boat changed its name to General Dynamics in 1952 under the company's new chairman and CEO, John Jay Hopkins. Honors
Holland Torpedo Boat Company was founded by John Philip Holland (1841 – 1914) in 1893.Holland was an Irish engineer-inventor, who designed and built the first practical submarine.
The USS Holland was based at New Suffolk's Holland Torpedo Boat Station from 1899 to 1905. Seven submarines built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company – Electric Boat Company were stationed at New Suffolk. Holland Torpedo Boat Station on Cutchogue Harbor was not designated a submarine base by the US Navy.
Isn't Electric Boat Company the common name? 132.205.44.134 23:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] Except that this is a corporate name, and in those cases, the tendency is to use the firm's actual name, sans "Inc," "Corp," "Plc," "Co," etc. (except for firms where that is part of common usage, such as Onex Corporation .