William H. Brown (shipbuilder)

He later established the William H. Brown shipyard at the foot of Twelfth Street, on the East River in New York City.

After Brown retired from shipbuilding in 1853, Englis opened his own shipyard at the foot of East 10th Street, New York under his own name.

On November 15, 1850, Brown wrote a letter to Stevens offering to build him the yacht for $30,000 under the condition that Hamilton Wilkes, as umpire, would make several trial races to decide if she was the fastest vessel in the United States.

[3][6] The America was launched on May 3, 1851, from the Brown shipyard, near Eleventh Street, East River, New York.

[10] The SS Arctic was a paddle steamer of the Collins Line, was built by the William H. Brown shipyard and designed by George Steers.

According to a press account, she was "the most stupendous vessel ever constructed in the United States, or the world, since the patriarchal days of Noah."

She was the largest of a fleet of four, built with the aid of U.S. government subsidies to challenge the transatlantic supremacy of the British-backed Cunard Line.

Brown had a partnership with Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1851 for the three vessels he built, which were the Pacific, Independence and Sea Bird under the steamship line between New York and San Francisco by way of Nicaragua.

During that time, Vanderbilt used Brown's ships had received profits from them, which he asked the court for an accounting.