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INSCRIPTION: DOUGHTY & KAPPELLA, SHIP BUILDERS & CAULKERS, with Marine Railway for Hauling out vessels of 500 tons or less. (on plate at top), PETTY'S ISLAND, OPPOSIT PORT RICHMOND (bottom center), Ballast given and taken on the most reasonable terms. (at bottom to left of center) All orders left at Archambaults Machine Work, foot of Vienna Street, promptly attended to. (at bottom to right of center); MARKS: E. Herline, Lith. 630 Chestnut St. Phila. (under image at right), MORNING STAR (on stern of vessel on railway), BATEMAN (on tug bow flag at right), KATE LANE (on stern of sailing vessel to right of center), MARY (on stern of rowing boat tied up to dock), DOUGHTY & KAPPELLA RAILWAY, Petty's Island (on sail of small boat to left of center), BALLAST (on flag at end of wharf);
LITHOGRAPH, COLORED, DOUGHTY & KAPPELLA SHIPYARD, PETTY'S ISLAND, SHIPBUILDING, SHIPYARD, HARBOR, TUGBOAT, AMERICAN VIEW, AMERICAN PORT, SHACKAMAXON ISLAND, ADVERTISEMENT, ADVERTISING, AD, RAILWAY,
NOTES: Notes from "Report on Historical and Archival Research, Petty's Island Preserve, Pennsauken Township, Camden County, New Jersey" January 2016: Doughty & Kapella were successors to Stewart & Walters on the southern end of Petty's island. The shipyard slips, wharves and a marine railway of Doughty & Kapella faced onto the Pennsylvania channel and were relatively modest in size. NOTES: [History of company compiled from newspapers.com] The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 1869, page 3: A beautiful model tug-boat named after the proprietor of the Kensington Iron Works, A. L. Archambault, Esq., was successfully launched from the shipyard of Messrs. Doughty & Kappella, at Petty's Island, on Saturday morning last, at hight water. She is 55 feet long, 13 feet beam, 5 feet 3 inches hold. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 1872, page 2: Article indicates Doughty & Kappella built a new tug named James B. Alexander. An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer dated June 22, 1874 indicates Doughty & Kapella were in business in 1874: The new steam yacht Belmont, intended for use on the Schuylkill between Fairmount and the Falls, made a very successful trial trip on Saturday. She was built by Messrs Doughty & Kapella, on Petty's Island. Doughty & Kappella showed the steam yacht "Meteor" in Machinery Hall in the Pennsylvania section of the International Exhibition in 1876. New York Daily Herald, December 19, 1879, page 10: Doughty & Kappella launched an unnamed passenger and freight steamer for Capt. William P. Drake. The Morning Post, February 7, 1880, page 2: Doughty & Kappella, Petty's Island, have laid the keel for a freighting steamer for parties in New York. The Norfolk Landmark, November 16, 1880, page 3: The Nautical Gazette says: The Steamer General Robert E. Lee, which was built by Messrs. Doughty and Kapellla, at Petty's Island, to run between Norfolk and West Point, is now receiving her finishing touches, and will leave for her destination in a few days. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 1881, page 2: The company contracted to build two steam tugs for Captain James McCauley. They will be used for river and bay towing. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 1881, page 3: The tug John C. Bradley, recently built at the yard of Doughty & Kapella, on Petty's Island, was launched at high water yesterday. Another tug, to be called the Thomas J. Yorke, Jr., will be launched in a few days. [these are the two tugs built for Capt. James McCauley] The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 1881, page 2: Doughty & Kapella, Petty's Island, are doing the wood work on the City Ice Boat No. 1. Daily Republican, January 8, 1883, page 1: G. Morris Doughty, senior member of the firm of Doughty & Kapella, shipbuilders, on Petty's Island, died of dropsey on Saturday. He was 64 years of age. Engineering Mechanics, Volume 2, August 19, 1882, page 118: Messrs. Doughty & Kapella, Shipbuilders at Petty's Island (Philadelphia), have contracted with the Panama Canal Co. to build three large dredging machines 100 feet long, 30 feet beam, and 10 feet depth of hold, for use in digging the new short cut of the Pacific Coast. The machinery to be placed in the vessels is being built in San Francisco, and will be shipped to Philadelphia, to be fitted into the vessels. The apparatus is peculiar in character, and will be so constructed as to be able to cut thorugh the heavy vegetable undergrowth which thus far has been a serious obstruction to the work. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 16, 1883, page 8: Mr. Adolph F. Kapella, surviving and liquidating partner of the late firm of Doughty & Kapella, yesterday made an assignment to Edmund L. Leavy, of the firm Neafie & Levy for the benefit of his creditors. Railway World, September 15, 1883, page 971: The second of the three dredges built in Philadelphia for work on the Panama Canal, the Prosper Huerne, named after a distinguished French engineer, was launched on September 6th from the shipyard on Petty's Island, formerly operated by Doughty & Kapella, and now leased and run by Slaven Brothers. The first dredge, the Count de Lesseps, was launched on the 17th of March, and has been used on the Panama work since August 1st, dredging 10,000 cubic yards a day. The Prosper Huerne will be ready to start for the isthmus in three or four weeks, and the third dredge will be launched on the 23rd of this month. Slaven Brothers are officers of the American Contracting and Dredging Company, of New York, which has the contract for dredging seven and a half miles of the new canal on the Atlantic side of the Gettun, which is an important station. The excavation to be made by them under this contract will involve the removal of 8,000,000 cubic yards, at a price of $2,000,000. The machines in operation dump the dredge matter into a discharge pipe, which carries it off beyond the banks of the canal. The De Lesseps digs to a depth of 12 feet and to a width of 100 feet. The Huerne, following in the wake of the De Lesseps, digs to a width of 200 feet, and the third dredge in the rear will dig the canal to the full depth of 27-1/2 feet, giving the sides an easy slope and a widge of 110 feet at the bottom. De Lesseps promises to finish the canal by 1888, the contract of Slaven Brothers requiring them to finish their sections in fifteen months. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 30, 1922, page 27: In the obituary of Adolph F. Kappella (died the Sunday before), it was stated that "at the beginning of the Civil War he and an associate founded the firm of Kappella & Doughty on Petty's Island."
INSCRIPTION: The Prospect of Cape Cassepourry in America Ms. at 4L. at S.W. (at top of top image), Cape Cassepourry, a River (on plate of top image), The Prospect of the Island of Cayenne, being one League 1/4 at Sea) C. An Indian Pirague (at top of second image), Point of Armyre, Armyre, Continued Vunder at B, Les Mamelles 2 rocks, La Mere at W 1/4 S.W, C, Le Pere (on plate of second image), B Continuation, Fort de Cayenne, L'enfant Perdu (on plate of second image), A Map of the Island Cayenne (at top of middle image), Explanation of the Figures in ye Map, Sugar Works, Petty Plantations, Indian Carbet or Village, Woody Country, Palmetto Trees (key on plate of middle image), Explanation of the figures in ye plan of ye Island Martinico., A. The Fort on a pretty high hill, B. The Town under the hill, C. The works about ye Town made of Earth, D. The Lemon Tree Walk, E. The Jesuits Chappel, F. The onely Landing place about the whole works of the Town, Call’d ye Watergate., G. A Woody Country about ye Town, H. The Road before Ye Town, 2. Battery of Guns, 3. The Road of Armire (key in bottom left corner), Town and Fort St. Lewis att [sic] Cayenne (top of bottom middle image), A Map of ye Harbour of the Cul de Sac Royal in ye Island Martinico (at bottom of image in bottom right corner); MARKS: I. Kip fe. (under image at bottom right), Vol. V., Plate 22 (top left corner), Page 543. (top right corner);
LINE ENGRAVING, COLORED, PROSPECT OF CAPE CASSEPOURRY, IN AMERICA, HARBORS, MAP, FORTS, TOPOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHIC, TOPOGRAPHICAL, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, LESSER ANTILLES, WINDWARD ISLANDS, FORT ROYAL, MARTINIQUE, FORT-DE-FRANCE, CABO CACIPORE, CASSIPORE,
NOTES: John Churchill and Awnsham Churchill, A Collection of voyages and travels: some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English…/ with some general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation, from its first beginning. London: J. Walthow, 1732. (6 volumes) (TMMP Library G160 .C5 rare); Volume V, Plate 22, p. 543 Usually called Churchill's collection, as he was the publisher. Two additional volumes making the fifth and sixth, were printed in 1733. All these volumes were reprinted or reissued with the dates of 1744 - 1747 and 1752. Two more volumes were printed in 1745 by Thomas Osborne, from materials in the library of the Earl of Oxford, whence they are generally known as the "Oxford Collection of Voyages. London: Thomas Osbourne, MDCCXLVII." (2 l., pp. Xii, lxiii, 873, 15 l. Vol. VIII. Title, pp. 932. These eight volumes are usually found together. SEE: Sabin, Dictionary of Books relating to America. Volume IV. New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1871. The volumes give an Account of the Progress of Trade and Navigation, from its First Beginning. Illustrated with several Hundred Useful Maps and Cuts, Containing Views of the different Countries, Cities, Towns, Forts, Ports and Shipping: Also, the Birds, Beasts, Fish, Serpents, Trees, Fruits and Flowers; with the Habits of the different Nations.
