Making history for 165 years in the fastest, most powerful ships and submarines in maritime history while eliminating current EPA compliance issues.
Lignum-Vitae is Leading the way back to Water Lubricated Bearings.
- 1852 – First successful stern tube bearing for ship rotating shafts patented by John Penn.
- 1856 – Lignum Vitae bearings were used by the SS Great Eastern to lay the first transatlantic cable.
- 1856 – Lignum Vitae Stern Tube Bearings were the first to make a transatlantic voyage.
- 1882 – Lignum Vitae bearings were the first hydro bearings specified by Thomas Edison at the Appleton Wisconsin plant still using Lignum Vitae bearings.
- 1952 – The SS United States broke the transatlantic speed record averaging 39.71 miles per hour from Cornwall U.K. to New York City using Lignum Vitae bearings. The record still stands today.
- Lignum Vitae was considered a competitive advantage and classified for 50 years after WW11 making all relevant information a secret until recent times.
- Lignum Vitae bearings were used in the first nuclear submarine the USS Nautilus.
- Polar class icebreakers, the Polar Star and the Polar Sea, the largest non-nuclear ships were designed to operated on Lignum Vitae bearings.
