W. & A. Fletcher Company

W. & A. Fletcher Co. was an American manufacturer of marine boilers and steam engines for steamboats on the Hudson, in the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, and elsewhere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

They built engines for many famous Hudson River Day Line steamers and others, in both vertical walking beam and inclined compound types.

[2] As in the case with PS Washington Irving the company held the engine contract and, as with the J. P. Morgan yacht Corsair III did the installation after the launch of the hull.

[3][4] Some of the ships they fabricated engines for included the General Slocum, the Hendrick Hudson, the Adirondack and the Shady Side.

By 1921 the company had been associated with over 320 vessels ranging from tugs to ocean going ships and had operations to a repair yard with a 440 feet (134.1 m) floating dry dock.