Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works [SEP] industry
River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works was reopened by Roach's sons and continued in operation until shortly after the death of Roach's eldest son John Baker Roach in 1908, at which point the Roach family retired from the shipbuilding business.
Over the course of its 37-year history, the Roach shipyard had many notable achievements to its credit. In 1874 it built "City of Peking" and "City of Tokio", the two largest gross-tonnage ships ever built in the United States to that date and the second
Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works
The Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works (founded in 1871), was a major late-19th-century American shipyard located on the Delaware River in Chester, Pennsylvania. It was founded by the industrialist John Roach and is often referred to by its parent company name of John Roach & Sons, or just known as the Roach shipyard. For the first fifteen years of its existence, the shipyard was by far the largest and most productive in the United States, building more