Master Shipbuilders

George Greenman, Clark Greenman, and Thomas S. Greenman, sons of Westerly, R.I., shipbuilder Silas Greenman, were master shipbuilders who established their first yard at the head of the Mystic River in 1827 and moved to this point in 1838, where they continued operations until 1879. During those 52 years they built 94 ships and steamers. Three times in succession, from this site, they launched the largest vessel yet constructed in Connecticut, earning a reputation in national shipping circles for honest workmanship and superior design. Here they laid the massive keels of the David Crockett and other noted clipper and packet ships, and their outstanding contribution to the nation’s growth and wellbeing helped inspire the founding of an association dedicated to preserving the principles by which they lived and made their achievements possible.

Mystic, Connecticut · United States