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West Point (1847)
The West Point (sometimes ''Westpoint''〔) was a full rigged vessel built in the 1840s and used for the transportation of goods, passengers and mail to and from Liverpool and New York. It was one of a few ocean-going packet-ships operated by the Robert Kermit Red Star Line company,〔''Western Ocean Packets'' by Basil Lubbock, p. 26〕 not to be confused with the Belgian/US-American shipping company Red Star Line, whose main ports of call were New York City and Philadelphia in the United States and Antwerp in Belgium.
In 1846, Robert Kermit commissioned the shipbuilders ''Westervelt & MacKay'' from New York to build the ''West Point''.〔 Kermit's ''West Point'' was not the only ship to bear that name: it was overshadowed by the widely known steamship SS America, which was acquired by the US Navy on June 1, 1941, renamed to USS ''West Point''〔Webseite dedicated to the USS Wespoint: ("USS Westpoint Reunion Association" ). Accessed 16 march 2009.〕 and used as a troop transport during World War II.
== Construction ==
''West Point'' was built in 1847〔 by Westervelt and MacKay, a company that acquired renown by constructing streamlined clipper ships and fast steamships.〔''Genealogy of the Westervelt family'', by Walter Tallman Westervelt, page 72/73〕 The shipyard also produced United States Navy ships such as the screw sloop .〔〔''Steamboat Days'' by Fred Erving Dayton, chapter 19〕
''West Point'' was built of southern live oak〔 despite the fact use of iron had started to catch on in the building of ships – especially in the United Kingdom.〔Thiesen, William H. ''Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction'', chapter 5, ISBN 0-8130-2940-6〕 In the following years, the advantages of iron ships became more obvious and the value of wooden ships decreased perceptibly. The owners of wooden ships therefore began to fasten their vessels with iron and copper. In case of ''West Point'', this happened in November 1857.〔
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