Background
Pook, Samuel Hartt was born on January 17, 1827 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Samuel Moore and Martha Crum (Dickinson) Pook.
Pook, Samuel Hartt was born on January 17, 1827 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Samuel Moore and Martha Crum (Dickinson) Pook.
Graduate Portsmouth Academy, New Hampshire, 1843.
He was involved in the design of the 1850 clipper barque Race Horse. also designed the 1853 clipper Challenger and the Red Jacket, a holder of the speed record for the New York-Liverpool and Liverpool-Melbourne passages. was less successful in his design for the Civil War-era ironclad Galena, which was found, in combat conditions, to suffer from ineffective armoring. "s father was the naval architect Samuel Moore, who designed the far more successful City-class Ironclads of the same period.
Married Ellen M., daughter