For nearly a century Philadelphians proudly pointed to Cramp's, the shipyards that made the slow-moving Delaware the "Clyde of America." When William Cramp founded the shipyard in 1830, he built fleet wooden clippers, helped make the U. S. one of the world's greatest seafaring nations. In the Civil War, Cramp's helped turn the tide for the Union with ironclads and monitors.
In the Spanish-American War, Cramp's built most of the famous White Squadron, including Admiral Sampson's flagship, the New York. U. S. men-of-war (many were of original Cramp design) made Cramp's world-famous....
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