Samuel Hartt

In 1853 Hartt served as chief of the navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair.

, rather than continuing to make extensive repairs on old ones—the expense of which often amounts to nearly the cost of new.

"Hartt died in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in 1860 and was buried in Brooklyn, New York at Green-Wood Cemetery.

He was married to Mary T. Tolman, and they had several children, including Samuel Tolman Hartt (1816-1859) who was also a prominent naval shipbuilder located at the Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and who died there in 1859.

Samuel T. Hartt built the USS Powhatan, one of the last and largest paddle frigates.

USS Michigan , the first ironclad warship of the U.S. Navy, was built by Hartt in 1843