![]() Engine nameplate and controls of steamboat Ticonderoga, the last extant Fletcher Company engine | |
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Company type | Private |
Founded | 1853 |
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Defunct | 1929 |
Fate | Merged, 1929 |
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Products | Marine engines and boilers |
Services | Ship repairs |
The co-founders of the firm that would become W. & A. Fletcher were William and Andrew Fletcher and Joseph G. Harrison. The Fletchers were Scottish-born brothers who emigrated as young children to the United States with their parents in 1829. The two brothers eventually followed their father's trade by joining the New York engineering firm of H. R. Dunham & Co. in their teens as apprentice machinists. Both proved to have exceptional ability and had risen to managerial positions in the firm by their early twenties.
With the retirement of Henry R. Dunham, proprietor of H. R. Dunham & Co., in 1853, the Fletcher brothers joined forces with a young machinist from the Delamater Iron Works, Joseph G. Harrison, to start their own business. Capital for the venture was provided by Harrison's father, a successful businessman. The three young machinists established their new firm in 1853 on the premises of the old Phoenix Foundy on West Street, New York, between Laight and Vestry Streets, under the name Fletcher, Harrison & Company. William Fletcher became manager of the new firm and his brother Andrew designing engineer, while Harrison attended to office matters. The new company's alternative name, the North River Iron Works, was an apparent homage to H. R. Dunham's defunct firm, which had also gone by the alternative name "North River Iron Foundry".
Fletcher, Harrison & Co. was originally established as a ship repair facility, but in 1854, its second year of operation, the company accepted its first contract for construction of a marine steam engine, for the small 31-ton Hudson River steamer James H. Elmore. Other, larger marine engine contracts soon followed, in sufficient quantity to enable the company to eventually abandon ship repairs and become a specialist in marine engine and boiler construction.(haer)
The company appears to have supplied no marine engines directly to the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, but at least four privately-owned steamboats powered by Fletcher, Harrison engines were purchased by the Navy and converted into the gunboats USS Isaac N. Seymour, USS Isaac Smith, USS Nansemond and USS Oleander. Many more Fletcher-powered steamers were, however, chartered by the Navy for use as transports or supply vessels. Shortly after the war, the company also supplied the engines for two Great Lakes revenue cutters, Sherman and Fessenden.
In the postwar period, New York suffered what has been described as America's first deindustrialization crisis, as the flood of ex-Navy vessels entering the market deprived the city's shipbuilding and marine engineering companies of new orders for a prolonged period, driving many of them out of business. Fletcher, Harrison & Co. was one of the few New York-based marine engineering companies to survive the slump. While marine engineering companies of the period typically acted as subcontractors to shipbuilding firms, Fletcher, Harrison reversed the practice by frequently competing directly with shipbuilding companies for complete ship contracts, building the engines and machinery themselves and subcontracting hull construction to a shipbuilder. By the 1890s, Fletcher Co. had become the largest such contractor in the United States.
The Fletcher company remained primarily a marine engine and boiler maker through most of its history, and its reputation was established on this line of work. It never built complete ships, but the company's managers accumulated considerable shipbuilding expertise and often acted as consultants on the design of the vessels for which they supplied the machinery. In some cases, they appear to have been responsible for designing at least parts of these vessels.
Over the course of its history, the company established close working relationships with a number of shipbuilding firms. In its early years, the company supplied the machinery for many steamboats built by Benjamin C. Terry, Keyport, New Jersey's largest shipbuilder. Another shipbuilder with which Fletcher Co. often partnered in this period was the New York, later Greenpoint shipbuilding firm of Lawrence & Foulks. These two firms exclusively built wooden-hulled ships. In the 1880s, Fletcher Co. formed a close working relationship with T. S. Marvel & Co., a company capable of building both wooden and iron or steel-hulled ships. Other iron and steel shipbuilding companies to subcontract with Fletcher Co. from the 1880s included the famous Delaware River firms of William Cramp & Sons, Harlan & Hollingsworth and John Roach & Sons. On the Great Lakes, a frequent collaborator was the Detroit Dry Dock Company.
The firm also began to establish a reputation for quality; it was said of the proprietors that they would "sooner lose money than slight work". A number of early vessels powered by the company's engines proved exceptionally fast, including the Hudson River steamboats Sylvan Grove (1858) and Daniel Drew (1860), but it was the powerplant supplied for the celebrated 1861 steamboat Mary Powell which is said to have gained the company widespread recognition as one of America's leading marine engine manufacturers.
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Ship | Engine | Ship notes; references | ||||||||||
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Name | Type [a] | Yr. [b] |
Builder | Tons [c] |
Ordered by | Intended service | Type | # | Cyl. (ins) |
Str. (ft) |
IHP | |
May Queen →Manitowoc 68 |
Steamer | 1853 | 694 | Lake Michigan | VB | 1 | 43 | 11 | 450 | Wrecked at Sheboygan, WI, 1865 [1] [d] | ||
James H. Elmore | Steamboat | 1854 | Eckford Webb | 31 | F. Dunning | is | tp | no | cyl | str | Fletcher engine No. #1. [2] [3] | |
Sylvan Shore →Annex 77 |
Steamboat | 1856 | F. Boole | 143 | Harlem & New York NC | East River | VB | 1 | 30 | 8 | Broken up, 1877 [4] [5] | |
J. T. Waterman →George H. Power 69 |
Ferry | 1858 | Hudson River | VB | 1 | [6] [7] [8] | ||||||
Sylvan Grove | Steamboat | 1858 | T. Collyer | 320 | Harlem & New York NC | East River | VB | 1 | 36 | 8 | [4] [5] [9] | |
Henry Andrews* | Steamboat* | 1859 | Breinard & Lawler | ton | Swiftsure Line | Hudson River | S | 1 | cyl | str | [10] | |
Mattano | Steamboat | 1859 | Benjamin C. Terry | 206 | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Chartered by U.S. Govt. for Civil War service, 1862–65. Rebuilt 1866 and 1889. Wrecked and abandoned, 1899. [11] [12] [13] | ||
Peytona | 1859 | Benjamin C. Terry | Hudson River | "For the Astoria route". [14] | ||||||||
Thomas P. Way | Steamboat | 1859 | Benjamin C. Terry | 453 | Keyport & Middletown Pt. SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 40 | 10 | Destroyed by fire, 1888 [15] [16] [17] [18] | |
Daniel Drew | Steamboat | 1860 | Thomas Collyer | ton | James F. Collyer? | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 68 | 10 | This was a new engine built and installed ca. 1862 by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. to replace the original 60-inch by 10-foot stroke engine built by the Neptune Iron Works. A record-breaking steamboat, Daniel Drew was destroyed by fire in 1886. [19] [20] [21] [22] | |
I. N. Seymour USS Isaac N. Seymour 61 USLHT Tulip 65 Magnolia 82 |
Tugboat | 1860 | Benjamin C. Terry | 133 | P. C. Schultz | VB | 1 | 30 | 6 | USN gunboat 1861–65; lighthouse tender 1865–82; sold foreign 1888 [23] [24] [25] | ||
James W. Baldwin Central Hudson [e] |
Steamboat | 1860 | M. S. Allison | 710 | Romer & Tremper | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 60 | 11 | Fastest stateroom-equipped steamer on the Hudson on entering service in 1861. Broken up, 1911. [26] [27] [28] [29] | |
Enterprise | Ferry | 1861 | Curry & Doling | 542 | Hudson's Bay Co. | Vancouver Island | VB | 1 | 30 | 6 | [30] | |
Isaac Smith USS Isaac Smith 61 CSS Stono 63 |
Steamboat* | 1861 | Lawrence & Foulks | 350 | Hamilton & Smith | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 44 | 5 | Captured by Confederacy, 1863, lost 1865. [31] [32] [33] [34] | |
J. C. Doughty Arthur Kill 17 |
Ferry | 1861 | 147 | NJ & Staten Is. FC | New Jersey | VB | 1 | 26 | 6 | Destroyed by fire, 22 April 1923 [35] [36] | ||
Mary Powell | Steamboat | 1861 | M. S. Allison | 796 | Cpt. A. Anderson | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | Famous record-breaking steamboat. Broken up, 1923. [21] [37] [38] [39] [40] [f] | |
Mary Powell | Steamboat | 1861 | M. S. Allison | 983 | Cpt. A. Anderson | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 72 | 12 | 1560 | 1872 engine rebuild by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. to increase the cylinder bore, coincident with a rebuild of the steamboat. [21] [37] [38] [39] [41] |
Pomona Glen 94 Amphion 11 Dolphin 16 |
Steamboat | 1861 | Benjamin C. Terry | 421 | N. Shore Staten Is. FC | New Jersey | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Rebuilt 1894. In service almost 70 years; dismantled 1930. [42] [43] | |
City of Hudson | Steamboat | 1862 | Morton & Edmonds | 512 | Power, Martin & Co. | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | [44] [45] [g] | |
Daniel S. Miller Poughkeepsie 99 |
Steamboat* | 1862 | Henry Steers | 810 | Hamilton & Smith | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 44 | 6 | Destroyed by fire, 1910. [33] [46] [47] [48] | |
Jesse Hoyt J. D. Beers 63 Jesse Hoyt 64 |
Steamboat | 1862 | Benjamin C. Terry | 828 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 46 | 12 | Barge 1880, laid up, 1888, later scrapped. [49] [50] [51] [52] | |
James F. Freeborn USS Nansemond 63 USRC Nansemond 65 USRC W. H. Crawford 84? |
Steamboat | 1862 | Lawrence & Foulks | 380 | R. M. Squires et al | VB | 1 | 40 | 9 | USN gunboat, 1863-65, revenue cutter 1865-97. Sold 1897. [53] [54] [55] | ||
Matteawan Aurora 11 |
Steamboat | 1862 | Benjamin C. Terry | 495 | Keyport & Monmouth SBC | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | 42 | 12 | In commercial service 56 years; troop transport during the Spanish-American War. Broken up, 1922. [56] [57] [58] | |
Virginia Seymour George Starr 64 |
Steamboat | 1862 | Benjamin C. Terry | 175 | P. C. Schultz | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 36 | 6 | Immigrant ferry and excursion boat. Broken up, 1914. [59] [60] [61] | |
Shan-Se | Steamboat | 1862 | Lawrence & Foulks | 1100 | P. S. Forbes & Co. | China | GB | 1 | 50 | 6 | [62] [63] [64] [h] | |
Berkshire | Steamboat | 1863 | Morton & Edmonds | 1050 | Hudson SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 54 | 11 | Original engine built by James Cunningham & Co. for steamboat South America, removed and rebuilt by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. for service in Berkshire. Berkshire was burned 5 June 1864 with the loss of 40 lives; hull was reconstructed as propeller Nuhpa (1865), also powered by a Fletcher engine (see table). [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] | |
Greyhound | Steamboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 400 | Capt. Power | Norfolk, VA | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Used as General Benjamin F. Butler's HQ on James River, 1864. Destroyed by boiler explosion—allegedly Confederate sabotage—November 1864. [70] [71] [72] | |
USS Oleander | Gunboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 246 | VB | 1 | 36 | 7 | [73] [74] [75] [76] | |||
P. C. Schultz | Towboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 158 | P. C. Schultz | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 32 | 7 | Broken up at Perth Amboy, 1889. [77] | |
Sylvan Stream Empire State ~87 |
Steamboat | 1863 | 349 | Harlem & New York NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 40 | 8 | To St. Lawrence River, 1887. [4] [5] [78] | ||
Thomas V. Arrowsmith | Steamboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 450 | T. V. Arrowsmith & Co. | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Abandoned 1910 after 50 years service. [79] [80] | |
Amanda Winants | Tug | 1864 | Benjamin C. Terry | 257 | Garret Winants | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | Chartered shortly after completion by U.S. govt. for use as troop transport and dispatch boat during Civil War. Lost in hurricane off Georgetown, South Carolina, 1874. [81] [82] | |||
Chauncey Vibbard | Steamboat | 1864 | Lawrence & Foulks | 794 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 55 | 12 | Record-breaking steamboat. Broken up at Cramer's Hill, 1902. [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] | |
Chauncey Vibbard | Steamboat | 1864 | Lawrence & Foulks | 1181 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | New engine installed in 1866, coinciding with a rebuild of the steamboat (see earlier entry in table). The new engine had a larger bore but operated at a lower steam pressure. [86] [87] [21] | |
John L. Hasbrouck Marlborough 99 |
Steamboat | 1864 | Lawrence & Foulks | 944 | Poughkeepsie Line | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 45 | 9 | 555 | Broken up, 1917. [88] [89] [90] [91] |
Milton Martin | Steamboat | 1864 | Allison | 570 | Milton Martin et al | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 44 | 9 | Dismantled 1920. [92] [93] *****also mention of Berkshire | |
St. John | Steamboat | 1864 | John Englis | Peoples Line | Hudson River | New lr rebuilt engine installed by Fletcher, Harrison in 1880. [94] | ||||||
William Fletcher | Towboat | 1864 | Benjamin C. Terry | 204 | NY Harbor Towboat Co. | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Excursion boat, 1870s. Ended service 1916 after 52-year career. [95] | |
William Tittamer Melzinger 84 |
Steamboat | 1864 | Benjamin C. Terry | 184 | P. C. Schultz | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 26 | 6 | Rebuilt 1884; destroyed by fire 1888. [96] | |
Nuhpa Metropolitan [e] |
Steamboat* | 1865 | J. R. Baldwin & Co. | 1326 | George H. Power et al | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 37 | 6 | Steamer built from hull of burned Berkshire (1863—see table). New engine by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. [97] [98] [99] [100] | |
USRC Fessenden | Rev. cutter | 1865 | Peck & Kirby | ton | U.S. Revenue Marine | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 48 | 12 | [101] [102] | |
USRC Sherman Frank E. Kirby 90 |
Rev. cutter | 1865 | Peck & Kirby | ton | U.S. Revenue Marine | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 48 | 12 | [101] [103] [104] | |
New York | typ | 1866 | J. Simonson | ton | ob | is | tp | no | cyl | str | [105] | |
William C. Redfield | Freight steamboat* | 1865 | Elijah Brainard [i] | 370 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | DA | 1 | 36 | 2.8 | Destroyed by fire, 1910. [107] [106] | |
Nautilus | Steamboat | 1866 | J. Simonson | ton | Cpt. W. P. Williams | New York— Philadelphia, PA | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | Sold to J. M. Forbes & Co. in 1868 and sent to China. Lost off British coast about 1875 [108] | |
Grampus Stonington 66 |
Steamboat | 1866 | J. Simonson | ton | Cpt. W. P. Williams | New York— Philadelphia, PA | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | Ship sold to Stonington SSC while still under construction. Engine increased in size to 72×12, 1872. [109] | |
Julia | Steam yacht* | 1867 | D. O. Richmond | 44 | A. De Cordova [j] | Private use | 1 | 12 | 18 | Schooner yacht. Rebuilt 1871, engines added 1881. [110] | ||
R. N. Rice →City of Detroit 78 |
Steamer | 1867 | bldr | ton | Cleveland & Detroit NC | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 62.5 | 11 | Destroyed by fire, 1877. [111] [112] | |
Jay Cooke | Steamboat | 1868 | Desotell & Hutton | ton | J. P. Clark et al | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 40 | 9 | Also known as J. N. Cooke. Ship reported to have voyaged 235,000 miles in first eight years of service without a mechanical breakdwon. [113] [114] | |
Oakes Ames Champlain 74 |
Car ferry Steamboat |
1868 1874 |
N. B. Proctor Champlain TC |
ton | Burlington SBC [k] | Lake Champlain | VB | 2 | 45 | 10 | 540 | Built as railroad car ferry in 1868 but converted into the passenger steamboat Champlain in 1874. Wrecked by grounding, 1875; engine to Horicon (1877). [116] [117] [118] |
←J. T. Waterman 58 George H. Power |
Ferry | 1869 | 165 [l] | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 37 | 7 | In service on original route for 52 years. Condemned 1927. [6] [7] [8] Original boiler still in "perfect condition" after 40 years' service. | |||
L. J. N. Stark | Freighter | 1869 | Devine Burtis | 400 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | cyl | str | 700 | Destroyed by fire, 1870. [119] [120] [121] |
Plainfield | Ferry | 1869 | Devine Burtis | 1051 | NJ Central RRC | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | 50 | 12 | Destroyed by fire, 1900. [122] [123] | |
Sylvan Glen | Steamboat | 1869 | Lawrence & Foulks | 350 | Harlem & New York NC | East River | VB | 1 | 40 | 8 | [4] [5] [124] | |
Castleton Mohawk [e] Richmond [e] Albion [e] Trenton 02 |
Ferry | 1870 | Benjamin C. Terry | 604 | Nth. Shore Staten Is. FC | is | VB | 1 | 48 | 10 | Rebuilt at Noank, CT, 1902; still in service 1923. [125] [126] [127] | |
Pleasant Valley | Steamboat | 1870 | Benjamin C. Terry | 400 | Palisade FC | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Abandoned 1912. [128] [129] | |
Harlem | Steamboat | 1871 | Lawrence & Foulks | ton | Morrisania SBC | East River | VB | 1 | 44 | 8 | [130] [131] [132] | |
Vermont | Steamboat | 1871 | bldr | 1,124 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 55 | 12 | 1500 | [133] [134] [135] |
Sylvan Dell | Steamboat | 1872 | Lawrence & Foulks | 440 | Harlem & NY SBC | East River | VB | 1 | 51 | 8 | 700 | [5] [4] [136] [137] [138] |
America USS Despatch 73 |
Steam yacht | 1873 | Henry Steers | 730 | Henry N. Smith | Private use | VDA | 2 | 33 | 2.75 | Wrecked on Assateague Island, Virginia, 1891. [139] [140] [141] [142] [143] | |
Shady Side | Steamboat | 1873 | bldr | 444 | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 42 | 9 | 850 | [144] [145] [146] | |
Governor Andrew | Steamboat | 1874 | Lawrence & Foulks | 503 | Boston & Hingham SBC | Boston— Hingham | VB | 1 | cyl | str | [147] [148] [149] | |
J. Putnam Bradlee | Steamboat | 1875 | Lawrence & Foulks | 340 | City of Boston | Boston Harbor | VB | 1 | 36 | 8 | "[F]or the transportation of paupers and criminals to and from the different institutions in the harbor ..." [150] [151] | |
Pearl | Steamboat | 1875 | John Drackett | 405 | Clark | Put-In-Bay | VB | 1 | 46 | 9 | [152] [153] | |
Fanwood | Ferry | 1876 | Lawrence & Foulks | 1092 | NJ Central RRC | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | Out of documentation, 1904. [123] [154] [155] | ||
Idlewild | Steamboat | 1876 | Lawrence & Foulks | 632 | A. M. C. Smith | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 48 | 10 | Destroyed by fire, 1901. [156] [157] [158] [159] | |
←Champlain 74 Horicon |
Steamboat | 1877 | Lake George SBC | ton | Champlain TC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 45 | 10 | 270 | Out of service, 1911. [160] |
San Rafael | Steamboat | 1877 | Lawrence & Foulks | 692 | N. Pacific Coast RRC | San Francisco | VB | 1 | 50 | 11 | Fastest ferry in San Francisco Bay on entering service. Sunk in collision, 1901. [161] [162] [163] [164] | |
Saucelito | Steamboat | 1877 | Lawrence & Foulks | 692 | N. Pacific Coast RRC | San Francisco | VB | 1 | 50 | 11 | Destroyed by fire, 1884. [161] [162] [163] [165] | |
←Sylvan Shore 56 Annex |
Ferry | 1877 | bldr | 324 | Pennsylvania RRC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Disappears from shipping registers ca. 1895 [4] [5] [166] | |
Wm. M. Whitney →W. H. Frear 99 |
Ferry | 1877 | B. W. Springsteed & Son | 193 | Cpt. David H. Hitchcock | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 32 | 6 | Broken up, 1899 [167] [168] | |
←R. N. Rice 67 City of Detroit |
Steamer | 1878 | Detroit DD Co. | 1094 | Cleveland & Detroit NC | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 62.5 | 11 | [111] | |
Annex No. 3 →John G. Carlisle 96 |
Ferry | 1879 | bldr | 367 | Pennsylvania Annex [m] | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 35 | 7 | [166] [168] | |
George E. Starr | Steamer | 1879 | J. T. F. Mitchell | 472 | Cpt. L. M. Starr | Puget Sound | VB | 1 | 30 | 8 | [169] | |
Albany Potomac 34 |
Steamboat | 1880 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1347 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 73 | 12 | 3200 | Lengthened 1893; broken up 1949 and converted to barge; still in service 1960s. [41] [170] [171] [172] [173] |
City of Catskill | Steamboat | 1880 | Van Loon & Magee | ton | Catskill Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 56 | 12 | Destroyed by fire, 1883. [174] [175] [176] | |
City of Cleveland City of Alpena 85 State of Ohio 92 |
Steamer | 1880 | Detroit DD Co. | 1222 | Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 50 | 11 | Original engine built in 1847 by H. R. Dunham & Co. for United States (Champlain TC); rebuilt by Fletcher Co. for installation in City of Cleveland. Ship burned 1924, converted to barge and stranded 1929. [177] [178] | |
Daniel B. Babcock [179] | Tug | 1881 | Schuyler Towing | Albany, NY | 1 | 22 | 20 | |||||
Belle Horton [179] | Steamboat | 1881 | Van Loon & Magee | Citizen's Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | |||||
Cepheus | Ferry | 1881 | J. Roach & Sons | 882 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
Cetus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 847 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 850 | [180] [181] |
Cygnus | Ferry | 1881 | J. Roach & Sons | 857 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
Pegasus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 847 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 11 | 850 | [180] [181] |
Perseus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 847 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 850 | [180] [181] |
Sirius | Ferry | 1881 | J. Roach & Sons | 916 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
Taurus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 916 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
City of Milwaukee Muskegon [e] |
Steamer | 1881 | Detroit DD Co. | 1149 | Goodrich | Lake Michigan | VB | 1 | 52 | 12 | 1500 | Sunk in collision, 29 killed, 1919. [182] [183] |
Reindeer | Steamboat | 1881 | bldr | ton | Grand Isle SBC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | cyl | str | 600 | [184] [185] |
Albertina | Steamboat | 1882 | Lawrence & Foulks | ton | Merchants Line | NY— Red Bank, NJ | VB | 1 | 38 | 10 | [186] [187] | |
City of Fall River | Steamer | 1882 | Montgomery & Howard | 2533 | Old Colony SBC | NY— Fall River, MA | CB | 1 | 44, 68 | 8, 12 | Dismantled, 1925. [188] [189] [190] [191] [192] | |
Kaaterskill | Steamboat | 1882 | Van Loan & Magee | 1361 | NY, Catskill & Athens SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 63 | 12 | [174] [171] [193] | |
Kecoughtan Luray 82 |
Steamboat | 1882 | Lawrence & Foulks | ton | Old Dominion SSC | Norfolk, VA | VB | 1 | 38 | 8 | [n] | |
Alaskan | Steamer | 1883 | Delaware Works | 1100 | Oregon R. & SBC | Columbia River | VB | 1 | cyl | str | First U.S.-built steamer with steel-plated hull. Fast ship. Sank in storm, 1889. [196] [197] [198] [199] | |
City of Mackinac State of New York 92 Florida18 |
Steamer | 1883 | Detroit DD Co. | 808 | Detroit & Cleveland SBC | Lake Huron | CB | 1 | 30, 44 | 6.66, 10 | Originally a salvaged single-cylinder 44 × 10 vertical beam engine, manufacturer unknown, compounded by Fletcher Co. in 1884. Ship converted to clubhouse at Chicago, 1936. [200] [201] [202] | |
Ticonderoga | Steamboat | 1883 | Lake George SBC | Lake Champlain TC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 40 | 9 | Last wood-hulled steamboat built for Lake George service. Destroyed by fire, 1901. [203] [204] | ||
F. P. James | Steamboat | 1884 | Sherwood | ton | Albany & Troy SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 36 | 8 | 150 | [205] |
City of Cleveland St. Ignace 07 Keystone 26 |
Steamer | 1885 | Detroit DD Co. | 1923 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 66 | 12 | Burned and hulked 1932, scrapped 1948. [206] [207] [208] [209] [178] | |
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Steamer | 1885 | Globe SBC | 538 | Darius Cole | Lake Michigan | VB | 1 | 46.5 | 10 | Destroyed by fire, 1925. [210] | |
Jacob H. Tremper | Steamboat | 1885 | Lawrence & Foulks | 572 | Romer & Tremper | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Broken up at Newburgh, New York, 1929 [211] | |
Long Island | Lighter | 1885 | 163 | Long Island RRC | New York Harbor | CS | 1 | 16, 28 | 2 | 275 | [212] [213] | |
City of Brockton | Freighter | 1886 | Montgomery & Howard | 2771 | Old Colony SBC | CB | 1 | 44, 68 | 9, 12 | Broken up, Newport, Rhode Island, 1929. [189] [214] [215] [216] [o] | ||
Orange | Ferry | 1886 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1096 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 46 | 10 | 600 | Dismantled, 1944. [217] [218] [219] |
Montclair | Ferry | 1886 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1095 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 46 | 10 | 600 | Dismantled, 1944. [217] [218] [219] |
Chateaugay | Steamboat | 1887 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 557 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Converted into an automobile ferry, 1925. [220] [221] | |
New York | Steamboat | 1887 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1553 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 75 | 12 | Lengthened 1897. Destroyed by fire, 1908. [222] [223] [224] [225] | |
City of Detroit City of Detroit II 11 Goodtime 25 |
Steamer | 1888 | Detroit DD Co. | 1919 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Great Lakes | CB | 1 | 44, 68 | 8, 12 | Broken up Hamilton, Ontario, 1940. [104] [226] [227] [228] [229] [o] | |
Mount Hope | Steamer | 1888 | Montgomery & Howard | 880 | Fall River & Providence SBC | Rhode Island | VB | 1 | 46 | 10 | 1000 | [230] [231] |
Puritan | Steamboat | 1888 | Delaware Works | 4593 | Old Colony SBC | Boston— New York | CB | 1 | 75, 110 | 9, 14 | 7500 | Largest walking beam engine ever constructed. Ship sold to wreckers 1916; broken up, 1920. [232] [233] [234] [235] [236] |
Pierrepont Piermont [e] |
Ferry | 1889 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1087 | Union FC | East River | VB | 1 | 50 | 10 | 540 | Dismantled 1935. [237] [238] [239] |
City of Chicago City of St. Joseph 16 |
Steamer | 1890 | F. W. Wheeler & Co. | 1164 | Graham & Morton TC | Lake Michigan | CB | 1 | 36, 54 | 6.8, 10 | Barge 1936, sank Lake Superior 1942. [240] [241] [242] | |
Plymouth | Coastal Steamer | 1890 | Delaware Works | 3770 | Old Colony SBC | is | ITE | 1 | 50,75,2(81.5) | 8.25 | 5500 | Broken up Baltimore, 1938. [189] [243] [244] [245] [246] [247] |
Bremen Maplewood 18 |
Ferry** | 1891 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1253 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(20,36) | 2.33 | 1000 | First ferryboat with a double compound engine. Sister ship to Hamburg (see table). Broken up, 1948. [218] [219] [248] [249] [250] [251] |
C. E. Evarts James A. Lawrence |
Tugboat* | 1891 | 86 | NY Dept. of Surveyors | New York Harbor | CS | 1 | 17, 34 | 2 | [252] [253] [254] | ||
General Slocum | Steamboat | 1891 | Devine Burtis, Jr. | 1284 | Knickerbocker SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 1400 | Destroyed by fire in East River in 1904 with the loss of 1,021 lives in the worst New York City disaster prior to the September 2001 terrorist attacks. [255] [256] [257] |
Hamburg Chatham 18 Lackawanna 49 |
Ferry** | 1891 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1266 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(20,36) | 2.33 | 800 | Sister ship to Bremen ( see table). Broken up, New York, 1968. [218] [219] [258] [259] [251] |
Mayflower | Steamboat | 1891 | Montgomery & Howard | 778 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston— Hingham | VB | 1 | 48 | 9 | 800 | [147] [260] [261] |
City of Taunton | Freighter | 1892 | Montgomery & Howard | 2881 | Old Colony SBC | CB | 1 | 47, 71 | 8, 12 | 2800 | Broken up, 1929. [189] [262] [263] [264] | |
Clermont | Steam yacht | 1892 | Lawrence & Foulks | 299 | A. Van Santvoord | Private use | VB | 1 | 40 | 6 | [265] [266] [267] | |
Chippewa | Steamer | 1893 | Hamilton Bridge & Shipbuilding Co. | 1514 | Niagara NC | Lake Ontario | VB | 1 | 75 | 11 | 2000 | Largest sidewheeler ever to operate on Lake Ontario. Dismantled, 1939. [268] [269] [270] |
City of Alpena City of Alpena II 12 City of Saugatuck 22 Leona 41 Normil 45 |
Steamer | 1893 | Detroit DD Co. | 1735 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Lakes Huron, Erie | CB | 1 | 42, 66 | 88, 132 | Converted to barge, 1941; broken up at Menominee, MI, 1957. [271] [272] [273] | |
City of Mackinac City of Mackinac II 12 City of Holland 22 |
Steamer | 1893 | Detroit DD Co. | 1750 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Lake Huron | CB | 1 | 42, 66 | 7.4, 11 | Broken up, Sturgeon Bay, WI, 1938. [274] [275] [271] | |
Netherlands Oswego 36 |
Ferry* | 1893 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1129 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(18,38) | 2.33 | 800 | Broken up, Fieldsboro, New Jersey, 1956. [218] [276] [277] [278] [279] |
Priscilla | Steamboat | 1893 | Delaware Works | 5292 | Old Colony SBC | is | IC | 2 | 51, 95 | 11 | 8500 | World's largest sidewheeler on completion. Broken up, Baltimore, 1938. [189] [280] [281] [282] [243] |
City of Bangor | Steamer | 1894 | bldr | 1661 | Boston & Bangor SSC | Boston— Bangor | VB | 1 | 63 | 11 | 1200 | Sister ship of City of Rockland (1900). Laid up, 1927; sank at her moorings, 1933. [283] [284] [206] |
City of Buffalo | Steamer | 1895 | Detroit DD Co. | 2398 | Cleveland & Buffalo TC | Great Lakes | CB | 1 | 52, 80 | 8, 12 | 5500 | Sister ship to City of Erie (1898). Lengthened 1904; damaged by fire, 1938; broken up, 1940. [214] [285] [286] [287] [288] |
Myles Standish | Steamboat | 1895 | Montgomery & Howard | 700 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | CI | 1 | 31, 56 | 8 | 700 | Broken up, 1936. [289] [290] [291] [292] [293] |
Oneonta Norman |
Steam yacht* | 1895 | Delaware Works | 135 | Frank Tilford | Private use | TE | 1 | 13,21.75,35 | 1.33 | New or rebuilt engine installed in 1901 by Fletcher Co. to replace the original. [294] [295] [296] | |
Adirondack | Steamboat | 1896 | J. Englis & Son | 3644 | New Jersey SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 81 | 12 | 4000 | Foundered at Athens, New York, 1925. [41] [171] [222] [297] [298] |
←Annex No. 3 79 John G. Carlisle R. C. Reynolds 06 |
Ferry | 1896 | Robert Palmer | 210 | Albany–Troy SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 35 | 7 | [168] | |
Hingham Orient 01 Bay Queen 22 |
Steamboat | 1896 | Montgomery & Howard | 471 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | SI | 1 | 40 | 6 | 600 | Destroyed by fire, Mobile, Alabama, 1929. [299] [300] [289] |
Sovereign USS Scorpion (PY-3) |
Steam yacht** | 1896 | John N. Robins | 775 | M.C.D. Borden | Private use | TE | 2 | 15,24,39 | 1.75 | 2500 | Probably scrapped ca. 1927. [301] |
City of Erie | Steamer | 1898 | Detroit DD Co. | 2498 | Cleveland & Buffalo TC | Lake Erie | CB | 1 | 52, 80 | 8, 12 | Sister ship to City of Buffalo (1895). Broken up Cleveland, Ohio, 1941. [287] [302] [303] | |
Onteora | Steamboat | 1898 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1241 | Catskill Evening Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 55 | 10 | 1741 | [222] [304] [305] |
Brinkerhoff | Ferry | 1899 | bldr | 317 | Poughkeepsie & Highland FC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | cyl | str | In service until 1950; scrapped after museum ship plan failed to attract sufficent funding. [306] [307] [308] | |
Corsair USS Corsair (SP-159) 17 Corsair 19 USC&GS Oceanographer 30 USS Natchez (PG-85) 42 USS Oceanographer 42 |
Steam yacht** | 1899 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1136 | J. Pierpont Morgan | Private use | TE | 2 | 21,23,2(38) | 2.5 | 4550 | Scrapped ca. 1944. [309] [310] [311] [312] [313] |
Mobjack | Steamboat | 1899 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 610 | Old Dominion SSC | Norfolk, VA | VB | 1 | 42 | 9 | 1000 | Broken up, 1940. [314] [315] [316] [317] |
←Wm. M. Whitney 77 W. H. Frear |
Ferry | 1899 | W. H. Baldwin | 261 | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 32 | 7 | [167] [168] | ||
City of Rockland | Steamer | 1900 | William McKie | 1696 | Boston & Bangor SSC | Boston— Bangor | VB | 1 | 63 | 11 | Sister ship of City of Bangor (1894). Burned for salvage after running aground, 1924. [284] [318] [319] [320] | |
John Englis | Ferry | 1900 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1022 | NY & Brooklyn FC | East River | VB | 1 | 50 | 10 | 700 | Scrapped 1940. [321] [322] [323] [324] |
Harry B. Hollins New Amsterdam [e] |
Ferry | 1900 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1019 | NY & Brooklyn FC | East River | VB | 1 | 50 | 10 | 700 | Scrapped 1940. [321] [322] [325] [324] |
Thomas Patten Governor Harrington [p] [e] |
Steamboat | 1901 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 875 | Patten Line | Shrewsbury River | VB | 1 | 51 | 8 | 1300 | [316] [326] [327] [328] [329] |
Isis USC&GS Isis 15 USS Isis USC&GS Isis 19 |
Steam yacht** | 1901 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 377 | W. S. & J. T. Spaulding | Private use | VTE | 2 | 12,18.5,29 | 1.66 | 2000 | Struck and sank off Crescent Beach, Florida, 1920. [330] [331] [332] [333] |
West Point | Ferry | 1901 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1328 | West Shore RRC | Hudson River | C | 2 | 18, 38 | 28 | 1400 | Dismantled 1948. [321] [334] [335] [336] |
Nantasket | Steamboat | 1902 | Montgomery & Howard | 739 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | SI | 1 | 52 | 9 | 1200 | Destroyed by fire at Hull, Massachusetts, 1929. [260] [289] [337] |
Newark | Ferry* | 1902 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1308 | Pennsylvania RRC | Hudson River | C | 1 | 22, 2(32) | 2 | 750 | Broken up, Baltimore, 1951. [338] [339] [340] [341] [342] [343] |
Ransom B. Fuller | Steamer | 1902 | New England Shipbuilding Co. | 1562 | Eastern SSC | Boston— Bath | VB | 1 | 63 | 11 | 1600 | Lengthened 45 feet, 1910; sold to wreckers 1935. [284] [344] [345] |
Sagamore | Steamboat | 1902 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1400 | Champlain TC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | 850 | [346] [347] |
Vermont | Steamboat | 1902 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 55 | 10 | 1800 | [326] [348] [349] | |
C. W. Morse | Steamboat | 1903 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 4307 | New Jersey SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 81 | 12 | 4500 | Broken up, New Haven, CT, 1936. [41] [350] [351] |
Happy Day Majestic [e] |
Steamboat | 1903 | bldr | 717 | VB | 1 | 44 | 8 | 750 | Launched in 1903 but not completed until 1908. [352] [353] [354] | ||
Intrepid | Steam yacht | 1903 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 330 | Lloyd Phoenix | Private use | CS | 1 | 9, 21 | 1.33 | [355] [330] [356] | |
Syracuse | Ferry** | 1903 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1344 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(18,38) | 2.33 | 1400 | [335] [336] [357] [358] [359] |
J. T. Morse Yankee 33 |
Steamer | 1904 | William McKie | 780 | Eastern SSC | Penobscot Bay | VB | 1 | 51 | 9 | 600 | Condemned 1941. [360] [361] |
Hendrick Hudson | Steamboat | 1906 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 2847 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | CI | 1 | 45,70,70 | 7 | 6200 | Broken up Philadelphia, 1951. [41] [222] [362] [363] |
Ticonderoga | Steamboat | 1906 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 892 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 53 | 9 | 1800 | Retired 1953; now a museum ship and the last surviving steamboat with a walking beam engine. [364] [365] [366] |
Perth Amboy | Ferry | 1907 | Staten Island RRC | VB | 1 | 42 | 9 | 600 | [367] [368] | |||
Princeton [Y] Berkshire [q] |
Steamboat | 1907 | New York Ship | 4300 | Hudson NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 84 | 12 | 4500 | Ship launched in 1907 but not completed until 1913. Out of service by 1946. [367] [369] [41] [370] |
Mohican** | Steamboat** | 1908 | Lake George SBC | Lake George | C | 2 | 10, 21.5 | 16 | 600 | [367] [316] | ||
Trojan New Yorker 39 |
Steamboat | 1908 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 2517 | Hudson NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 70 | 12 | 2800 | Destroyed by fire, 1940. [41] [371] [350] [372] |
Rensselaer | Steamboat | 1909 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 2690 | Hudson NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 70 | 12 | 2800 | Converted into barge James River, 1947; broken up, 1964. [41] [350] [372] [373] |
Robert Fulton | Steamboat | 1909 | New York Ship | 2168 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 75 | 12 | 4000 | Beached 1960, scrapped 1968. [41] [372] [374] [375] [r] |
Horicon | Steamboat | 1910 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | ton | Lake George SBC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 52 | 10 | 1500 | [376] [377] [378] |
Utica | Ferry* | 1910 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1351 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1400 | Sold 1939; floating restaurant 1960; broken up 1973. [335] [379] [380] |
Clermont Bear Mountain 48 |
Steamboat | 1911 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1864 | Catskill & NY TC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 55 | 11 | 2000 | Broken up, Bordentown, New Jersey, 1951. [305] [222] [378] [381] [382] |
Primeira | Ferry | 1911 | Govt. of Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | VB | 1 | cyl | str | 450 | [378] | ||
Aquehonga | Ferry | 1912 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 290 | NJ & Staten Is. FC | New Jersey | VB | 1 | 30 | 6 | 280 | Sold 1932 and foundered the same year [36] [383] [384] |
Niagara | Ferry* | 1912 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1250 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1600 | Hulk 1959; broken up, Hudson River, 1975. [335] [385] [386] [387] [388] [389] |
Rose Standish | Steamboat | 1912 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 993 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | CI | 1 | 31, 56 | 8.5 | 1500 | Destroyed by fire, 1929. [260] [293] [390] [391] [389] |
Washington Irving | Steamboat | 1912 | New York Ship | 3104 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | CI | 1 | 45, 2(70) | 7 | 6200 | Sunk in collision off Hoboken, New Jersey, 1926; broken up, 1927. [41] [350] [392] [393] [394] [395] |
Guanabara | Ferry | 1913 | bldr | ton | ob | Brazil | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Last walking beam engine produced by W. & A. Fletcher Co. [396] | |
New York Central No. 18 | Tugboat | 1913 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 255 | NY Central RRC | New York Harbor | CS | 1 | 20, 42 | 2.33 | 1087 | [335] [397] [398] |
Catskill | Ferry** | 1914 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1400 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1400 | Destroyed by fire, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1952. [335] [387] [399] [400] |
Weehawken | Ferry** | 1914 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1402 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1600 | Foundered, Jersey City, 1965. [335] [387] [400] [401] |
Fort Lee | Ferry* | 1915 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1080 | Riverside & Fort Lee FC | Hudson River | C | 1 | 17, 34 | 26 | 1000 | Scrapped ca. 1950. [402] [403] [404] [405] |
New York Central No. 3 | Tugboat* | 1916 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 210 | New York Central RRC | New York Harbor | C | 1 | 20, 40 | 2.16 | [397] [406] [407] | |
New York Central No. 9 | Tugboat* | 1916 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 219 | New York Central RRC | New York Harbor | C | 1 | 20, 40 | 2.16 | [397] [406] [407] | |
Stony Point | Ferry** | 1917 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1391 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | Hulked 1960; broken up, Tampa, Florida, 1964. [335] [387] [408] [409] [410] | |
Albany | Ferry** | 1925 | Staten Island SB Co. | 1389 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | cyl | str | Last engine (No. #303) built by W. & A. Fletcher Co. Ship derelict 1959; broken up, Jersey City, 1965. [387] [396] [411] |
Ship | Turbine(s) | Ship fate | Ship notes; references | |||||||||
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Name | Type | Yr. [s] |
Builder | Tons [t] |
Ordered by | Intended service | # | #S | SHP | How | When | |
Governor Cobb USCGC Cobb 43 |
Coastal pass. | 1906 | Delaware Works | 2522 | Eastern SSC | Boston— St. John, N. B. | 3 | 3 | 4500 | Scrapped | 1947 | First ship powered by American-built steam turbines. Ship later converted into world's first helicopter carrier. [361] [412] [413] [414] [415] |
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Coastal pass. | 1906 | Delaware Works | 3731 | Metropolitan SSC | Boston— New York | no | 3 | 10000 | Scrapped | 1949 | Second ship powered by American-built steam turbines, and fastest U.S. merchant steamer of the era along with sister ship Harvard (see table). Also reportedly world's first oil-fired turbine ship following conversion in 1910. [416] [417] [418] [419] |
|
Coastal pass. | 1907 | Delaware Works | 3737 | Metropolitan SSC | Boston— New York | no | 3 | 10000 | Wrecked | 1931 | Third ship powered by American-built steam turbines and fastest U.S. merchant steamer of the era along with sister ship Yale (see table); also one of world's first oil-fired turbine ships following 1910 conversion. [420] [421] [422] [419] |
|
Tanker | 1917 | Baltimore DD & SB Co. | 3322 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 1300 | Scrapped | 1955 | [423] [424] [425] |
|
Cargo | 1918 | J. Coughlan & Sons | 5825 | British Govt. | Scrapped | 1958 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1923. [426] [427] | ||||
Chipchung | Cargo | 1918 | Moore DD | 6163 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [428] [429] [430] | |
Mulpua | Cargo | 1918 | Moore DD | 6139 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [431] [432] | |
|
Cargo | 1918 | Moore & Scott | 6002 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [433] [434] [435] | |
|
Cargo | 1918 | Moore DD | 6002 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [436] [437] [438] [439] |
|
Cargo | 1919 | Federal SB & DD Co. | 6517 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2600 | Bombed | 1944 | [440] [441] |
|
Cargo | 1919 | Merrill-Stevens | 3532 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2000 | Scrapped | 1965 | [442] [443] [444] |
Askawake | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle N. Pacific | 6148 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [445] [446] |
|
Tanker | 1919 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7366 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | Scrapped | 1947 | [447] [448] [406] | ||
Chepadoa | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle Nth. Pacific | 6035 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [449] [450] [451] | |
Chicomico | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle Nth. Pacific | 6032 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | Scrapped | 1931 | [452] [453] | |
|
Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 5963 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed, shelled | 1942 | [454] [455] [456] |
|
Cargo | 1919 | Merrill-Stevens | 3513 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2000 | Explosion, fire | 1937 | Re-engined with diesel, 1925. [457] [458] | |
Naugus | Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 6037 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1930 | [459] [460] [461] [462] | |
Osaqumsick | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle Nth. Pacific | 6001 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1931 | [463] [464] [465] | |
Quillwark | Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 6034 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [466] [467] | |
Tuckanuck | Cargo | 1919 | Moore SBC | 6091 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [468] [469] |
West Jaffrey | Cargo | 1919 | Northwest Steel | 5663 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | Wrecked | 1942 | [470] [471] | |
|
Cargo | 1919 | Northwest Steel | 5704 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1957 | [472] [473] |
|
Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 5997 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1946 | [474] [475] [476] | |
Bessemer City | Cargo | 1920 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Wrecked | 1936 | [477] [478] |
|
Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SBC | 7366 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1963 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1925. Hulked, Savona, Italy, 1955. [479] [480] | |
|
Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7641 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1954 | [481] [482] | |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Merrill-Stevens | 3853 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2000 | Torpedoed | 1942 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1929. [483] [484] [485] |
|
Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB Co. | 7506 | Calvert NC Inc. | Not known | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1943 | [486] [487] [488] | |
|
Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7641 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1947 | [489] [490] [491] |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Newburgh Shipyards | 4421 | Union Sulphur | 2 | 2 | 3600 | Scrapped | 1950 | "Novel" twin screw propulsion system with high-pressure turbine driving one screw and low-pressure the other. Sister ship of Henry D. Whiton (see table). [492] [493] [494] | |
Honnedaga | Cargo | 1920 | Groton Iron Works | 6216 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1930 | [495] [496] | |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Moore Dry Dock | 6085 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | hp | Probably hulked | ca. 1960 | [497] [498] |
|
Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7366 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1948 | Re-engined with diesel, 1923. [499] [500] | |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Scrapped | 1958 | [501] [502] [503] [504] |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Moore SBC | 6034 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1941 | [505] [506] [507] |
Narbo | Cargo | 1920 | Moore DD | 6085 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Wrecked | 1945 | [508] [509] [510] |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Moore SBC | 6085 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [508] [509] [511] |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Doullut & Williams | 6171 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1946 | Re-engined with diesel, 1929. [512] [513] | |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Merril-Stevens | 3513 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2000 | Torpedoed | 1943 | [434] [514] [515] [516] | |
Potter | Cargo | 1920 | Doullut & Williams | 6171 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scuttled | 1944 | Re-engined with diesel, 1929. Scuttled as part of Gooseberry No. 1, Normandy, France, 1944. [517] [518] | |
Provincetown | Cargo | 1920 | Groton Iron Works | 6216 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1938 | [519] [520] [521] |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 1 | 3100 | Scuttled | 1957 | Reportedly scuttled in insurance fraud. [522] [523] [524] [525] | |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U. S. Steel | Not known | 1 | 3100 | Scrapped | 1960 | [522] [523] [526] [527] | |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U.S. Steel | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Scrapped | 1947 | [528] [529] [530] |
Steel Worker | Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U.S. Steel | 1 | 3100 | Mined | 1942 | [528] [531] [532] [533] | ||
Tuscaloosa City | Cargo | 1920 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [534] [535] [536] [537] |
|
Cargo | 1920 | Merrill-Stevens | 3513 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2000 | Scrapped | 1948 | [538] [401] [539] |
Chattanooga City | Cargo | 1921 | Chickasaw SB | 5687 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | Torpedoed | 1943 | [540] [541] [542] | |
Fairfield City | Cargo | 1921 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Bombed | 1942 | [543] [544] [545] [546] |
|
Cargo | 1921 | Newburgh Shipyards | 4438 | Union Sulphur | 2 | 2 | 3600 | Scrapped | 1959 | Sister ship of Herman Frasch (see table) and with same propulsion system. [493] [547] [548] [549] | |
Knoxville City | Cargo | 1921 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [550] [551] [552] | |
Lio | Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7245 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1937 | Re-engined with diesel, 1925. [553] [554] | |
|
Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7096 | Bethship | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 3000 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [555] [556] [557] |
|
Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7245 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1955 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1925. [558] [559] | |
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Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7245 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1947 | Re-engined with diesel, 1926. [560] [561] | |
Wichita | Cargo | 1921 | Doullut & Williams | 6171 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [562] [563] | |
Carabobo North Coast 38 Mayon 46 |
Pass./cargo | 1923 | New York SB | 2916 | Atlantic & Caribbean SNC | 2 | 1 | Scrapped | 1955 | [564] [565] |
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![]() Engine nameplate and controls of steamboat Ticonderoga, the last extant Fletcher Company engine | |
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Company type | Private |
Founded | 1853 |
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Defunct | 1929 |
Fate | Merged, 1929 |
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Products | Marine engines and boilers |
Services | Ship repairs |
The co-founders of the firm that would become W. & A. Fletcher were William and Andrew Fletcher and Joseph G. Harrison. The Fletchers were Scottish-born brothers who emigrated as young children to the United States with their parents in 1829. The two brothers eventually followed their father's trade by joining the New York engineering firm of H. R. Dunham & Co. in their teens as apprentice machinists. Both proved to have exceptional ability and had risen to managerial positions in the firm by their early twenties.
With the retirement of Henry R. Dunham, proprietor of H. R. Dunham & Co., in 1853, the Fletcher brothers joined forces with a young machinist from the Delamater Iron Works, Joseph G. Harrison, to start their own business. Capital for the venture was provided by Harrison's father, a successful businessman. The three young machinists established their new firm in 1853 on the premises of the old Phoenix Foundy on West Street, New York, between Laight and Vestry Streets, under the name Fletcher, Harrison & Company. William Fletcher became manager of the new firm and his brother Andrew designing engineer, while Harrison attended to office matters. The new company's alternative name, the North River Iron Works, was an apparent homage to H. R. Dunham's defunct firm, which had also gone by the alternative name "North River Iron Foundry".
Fletcher, Harrison & Co. was originally established as a ship repair facility, but in 1854, its second year of operation, the company accepted its first contract for construction of a marine steam engine, for the small 31-ton Hudson River steamer James H. Elmore. Other, larger marine engine contracts soon followed, in sufficient quantity to enable the company to eventually abandon ship repairs and become a specialist in marine engine and boiler construction.(haer)
The company appears to have supplied no marine engines directly to the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, but at least four privately-owned steamboats powered by Fletcher, Harrison engines were purchased by the Navy and converted into the gunboats USS Isaac N. Seymour, USS Isaac Smith, USS Nansemond and USS Oleander. Many more Fletcher-powered steamers were, however, chartered by the Navy for use as transports or supply vessels. Shortly after the war, the company also supplied the engines for two Great Lakes revenue cutters, Sherman and Fessenden.
In the postwar period, New York suffered what has been described as America's first deindustrialization crisis, as the flood of ex-Navy vessels entering the market deprived the city's shipbuilding and marine engineering companies of new orders for a prolonged period, driving many of them out of business. Fletcher, Harrison & Co. was one of the few New York-based marine engineering companies to survive the slump. While marine engineering companies of the period typically acted as subcontractors to shipbuilding firms, Fletcher, Harrison reversed the practice by frequently competing directly with shipbuilding companies for complete ship contracts, building the engines and machinery themselves and subcontracting hull construction to a shipbuilder. By the 1890s, Fletcher Co. had become the largest such contractor in the United States.
The Fletcher company remained primarily a marine engine and boiler maker through most of its history, and its reputation was established on this line of work. It never built complete ships, but the company's managers accumulated considerable shipbuilding expertise and often acted as consultants on the design of the vessels for which they supplied the machinery. In some cases, they appear to have been responsible for designing at least parts of these vessels.
Over the course of its history, the company established close working relationships with a number of shipbuilding firms. In its early years, the company supplied the machinery for many steamboats built by Benjamin C. Terry, Keyport, New Jersey's largest shipbuilder. Another shipbuilder with which Fletcher Co. often partnered in this period was the New York, later Greenpoint shipbuilding firm of Lawrence & Foulks. These two firms exclusively built wooden-hulled ships. In the 1880s, Fletcher Co. formed a close working relationship with T. S. Marvel & Co., a company capable of building both wooden and iron or steel-hulled ships. Other iron and steel shipbuilding companies to subcontract with Fletcher Co. from the 1880s included the famous Delaware River firms of William Cramp & Sons, Harlan & Hollingsworth and John Roach & Sons. On the Great Lakes, a frequent collaborator was the Detroit Dry Dock Company.
The firm also began to establish a reputation for quality; it was said of the proprietors that they would "sooner lose money than slight work". A number of early vessels powered by the company's engines proved exceptionally fast, including the Hudson River steamboats Sylvan Grove (1858) and Daniel Drew (1860), but it was the powerplant supplied for the celebrated 1861 steamboat Mary Powell which is said to have gained the company widespread recognition as one of America's leading marine engine manufacturers.
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Ship | Engine | Ship notes; references | ||||||||||
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Name | Type [a] | Yr. [b] |
Builder | Tons [c] |
Ordered by | Intended service | Type | # | Cyl. (ins) |
Str. (ft) |
IHP | |
May Queen →Manitowoc 68 |
Steamer | 1853 | 694 | Lake Michigan | VB | 1 | 43 | 11 | 450 | Wrecked at Sheboygan, WI, 1865 [1] [d] | ||
James H. Elmore | Steamboat | 1854 | Eckford Webb | 31 | F. Dunning | is | tp | no | cyl | str | Fletcher engine No. #1. [2] [3] | |
Sylvan Shore →Annex 77 |
Steamboat | 1856 | F. Boole | 143 | Harlem & New York NC | East River | VB | 1 | 30 | 8 | Broken up, 1877 [4] [5] | |
J. T. Waterman →George H. Power 69 |
Ferry | 1858 | Hudson River | VB | 1 | [6] [7] [8] | ||||||
Sylvan Grove | Steamboat | 1858 | T. Collyer | 320 | Harlem & New York NC | East River | VB | 1 | 36 | 8 | [4] [5] [9] | |
Henry Andrews* | Steamboat* | 1859 | Breinard & Lawler | ton | Swiftsure Line | Hudson River | S | 1 | cyl | str | [10] | |
Mattano | Steamboat | 1859 | Benjamin C. Terry | 206 | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Chartered by U.S. Govt. for Civil War service, 1862–65. Rebuilt 1866 and 1889. Wrecked and abandoned, 1899. [11] [12] [13] | ||
Peytona | 1859 | Benjamin C. Terry | Hudson River | "For the Astoria route". [14] | ||||||||
Thomas P. Way | Steamboat | 1859 | Benjamin C. Terry | 453 | Keyport & Middletown Pt. SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 40 | 10 | Destroyed by fire, 1888 [15] [16] [17] [18] | |
Daniel Drew | Steamboat | 1860 | Thomas Collyer | ton | James F. Collyer? | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 68 | 10 | This was a new engine built and installed ca. 1862 by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. to replace the original 60-inch by 10-foot stroke engine built by the Neptune Iron Works. A record-breaking steamboat, Daniel Drew was destroyed by fire in 1886. [19] [20] [21] [22] | |
I. N. Seymour USS Isaac N. Seymour 61 USLHT Tulip 65 Magnolia 82 |
Tugboat | 1860 | Benjamin C. Terry | 133 | P. C. Schultz | VB | 1 | 30 | 6 | USN gunboat 1861–65; lighthouse tender 1865–82; sold foreign 1888 [23] [24] [25] | ||
James W. Baldwin Central Hudson [e] |
Steamboat | 1860 | M. S. Allison | 710 | Romer & Tremper | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 60 | 11 | Fastest stateroom-equipped steamer on the Hudson on entering service in 1861. Broken up, 1911. [26] [27] [28] [29] | |
Enterprise | Ferry | 1861 | Curry & Doling | 542 | Hudson's Bay Co. | Vancouver Island | VB | 1 | 30 | 6 | [30] | |
Isaac Smith USS Isaac Smith 61 CSS Stono 63 |
Steamboat* | 1861 | Lawrence & Foulks | 350 | Hamilton & Smith | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 44 | 5 | Captured by Confederacy, 1863, lost 1865. [31] [32] [33] [34] | |
J. C. Doughty Arthur Kill 17 |
Ferry | 1861 | 147 | NJ & Staten Is. FC | New Jersey | VB | 1 | 26 | 6 | Destroyed by fire, 22 April 1923 [35] [36] | ||
Mary Powell | Steamboat | 1861 | M. S. Allison | 796 | Cpt. A. Anderson | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | Famous record-breaking steamboat. Broken up, 1923. [21] [37] [38] [39] [40] [f] | |
Mary Powell | Steamboat | 1861 | M. S. Allison | 983 | Cpt. A. Anderson | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 72 | 12 | 1560 | 1872 engine rebuild by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. to increase the cylinder bore, coincident with a rebuild of the steamboat. [21] [37] [38] [39] [41] |
Pomona Glen 94 Amphion 11 Dolphin 16 |
Steamboat | 1861 | Benjamin C. Terry | 421 | N. Shore Staten Is. FC | New Jersey | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Rebuilt 1894. In service almost 70 years; dismantled 1930. [42] [43] | |
City of Hudson | Steamboat | 1862 | Morton & Edmonds | 512 | Power, Martin & Co. | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | [44] [45] [g] | |
Daniel S. Miller Poughkeepsie 99 |
Steamboat* | 1862 | Henry Steers | 810 | Hamilton & Smith | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 44 | 6 | Destroyed by fire, 1910. [33] [46] [47] [48] | |
Jesse Hoyt J. D. Beers 63 Jesse Hoyt 64 |
Steamboat | 1862 | Benjamin C. Terry | 828 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 46 | 12 | Barge 1880, laid up, 1888, later scrapped. [49] [50] [51] [52] | |
James F. Freeborn USS Nansemond 63 USRC Nansemond 65 USRC W. H. Crawford 84? |
Steamboat | 1862 | Lawrence & Foulks | 380 | R. M. Squires et al | VB | 1 | 40 | 9 | USN gunboat, 1863-65, revenue cutter 1865-97. Sold 1897. [53] [54] [55] | ||
Matteawan Aurora 11 |
Steamboat | 1862 | Benjamin C. Terry | 495 | Keyport & Monmouth SBC | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | 42 | 12 | In commercial service 56 years; troop transport during the Spanish-American War. Broken up, 1922. [56] [57] [58] | |
Virginia Seymour George Starr 64 |
Steamboat | 1862 | Benjamin C. Terry | 175 | P. C. Schultz | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 36 | 6 | Immigrant ferry and excursion boat. Broken up, 1914. [59] [60] [61] | |
Shan-Se | Steamboat | 1862 | Lawrence & Foulks | 1100 | P. S. Forbes & Co. | China | GB | 1 | 50 | 6 | [62] [63] [64] [h] | |
Berkshire | Steamboat | 1863 | Morton & Edmonds | 1050 | Hudson SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 54 | 11 | Original engine built by James Cunningham & Co. for steamboat South America, removed and rebuilt by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. for service in Berkshire. Berkshire was burned 5 June 1864 with the loss of 40 lives; hull was reconstructed as propeller Nuhpa (1865), also powered by a Fletcher engine (see table). [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] | |
Greyhound | Steamboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 400 | Capt. Power | Norfolk, VA | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Used as General Benjamin F. Butler's HQ on James River, 1864. Destroyed by boiler explosion—allegedly Confederate sabotage—November 1864. [70] [71] [72] | |
USS Oleander | Gunboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 246 | VB | 1 | 36 | 7 | [73] [74] [75] [76] | |||
P. C. Schultz | Towboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 158 | P. C. Schultz | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 32 | 7 | Broken up at Perth Amboy, 1889. [77] | |
Sylvan Stream Empire State ~87 |
Steamboat | 1863 | 349 | Harlem & New York NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 40 | 8 | To St. Lawrence River, 1887. [4] [5] [78] | ||
Thomas V. Arrowsmith | Steamboat | 1863 | Benjamin C. Terry | 450 | T. V. Arrowsmith & Co. | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Abandoned 1910 after 50 years service. [79] [80] | |
Amanda Winants | Tug | 1864 | Benjamin C. Terry | 257 | Garret Winants | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | Chartered shortly after completion by U.S. govt. for use as troop transport and dispatch boat during Civil War. Lost in hurricane off Georgetown, South Carolina, 1874. [81] [82] | |||
Chauncey Vibbard | Steamboat | 1864 | Lawrence & Foulks | 794 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 55 | 12 | Record-breaking steamboat. Broken up at Cramer's Hill, 1902. [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] | |
Chauncey Vibbard | Steamboat | 1864 | Lawrence & Foulks | 1181 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | New engine installed in 1866, coinciding with a rebuild of the steamboat (see earlier entry in table). The new engine had a larger bore but operated at a lower steam pressure. [86] [87] [21] | |
John L. Hasbrouck Marlborough 99 |
Steamboat | 1864 | Lawrence & Foulks | 944 | Poughkeepsie Line | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 45 | 9 | 555 | Broken up, 1917. [88] [89] [90] [91] |
Milton Martin | Steamboat | 1864 | Allison | 570 | Milton Martin et al | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 44 | 9 | Dismantled 1920. [92] [93] *****also mention of Berkshire | |
St. John | Steamboat | 1864 | John Englis | Peoples Line | Hudson River | New lr rebuilt engine installed by Fletcher, Harrison in 1880. [94] | ||||||
William Fletcher | Towboat | 1864 | Benjamin C. Terry | 204 | NY Harbor Towboat Co. | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Excursion boat, 1870s. Ended service 1916 after 52-year career. [95] | |
William Tittamer Melzinger 84 |
Steamboat | 1864 | Benjamin C. Terry | 184 | P. C. Schultz | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 26 | 6 | Rebuilt 1884; destroyed by fire 1888. [96] | |
Nuhpa Metropolitan [e] |
Steamboat* | 1865 | J. R. Baldwin & Co. | 1326 | George H. Power et al | Hudson River | GB | 1 | 37 | 6 | Steamer built from hull of burned Berkshire (1863—see table). New engine by Fletcher, Harrison & Co. [97] [98] [99] [100] | |
USRC Fessenden | Rev. cutter | 1865 | Peck & Kirby | ton | U.S. Revenue Marine | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 48 | 12 | [101] [102] | |
USRC Sherman Frank E. Kirby 90 |
Rev. cutter | 1865 | Peck & Kirby | ton | U.S. Revenue Marine | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 48 | 12 | [101] [103] [104] | |
New York | typ | 1866 | J. Simonson | ton | ob | is | tp | no | cyl | str | [105] | |
William C. Redfield | Freight steamboat* | 1865 | Elijah Brainard [i] | 370 | A. Van Santvoord | Hudson River | DA | 1 | 36 | 2.8 | Destroyed by fire, 1910. [107] [106] | |
Nautilus | Steamboat | 1866 | J. Simonson | ton | Cpt. W. P. Williams | New York— Philadelphia, PA | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | Sold to J. M. Forbes & Co. in 1868 and sent to China. Lost off British coast about 1875 [108] | |
Grampus Stonington 66 |
Steamboat | 1866 | J. Simonson | ton | Cpt. W. P. Williams | New York— Philadelphia, PA | VB | 1 | 62 | 12 | Ship sold to Stonington SSC while still under construction. Engine increased in size to 72×12, 1872. [109] | |
Julia | Steam yacht* | 1867 | D. O. Richmond | 44 | A. De Cordova [j] | Private use | 1 | 12 | 18 | Schooner yacht. Rebuilt 1871, engines added 1881. [110] | ||
R. N. Rice →City of Detroit 78 |
Steamer | 1867 | bldr | ton | Cleveland & Detroit NC | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 62.5 | 11 | Destroyed by fire, 1877. [111] [112] | |
Jay Cooke | Steamboat | 1868 | Desotell & Hutton | ton | J. P. Clark et al | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 40 | 9 | Also known as J. N. Cooke. Ship reported to have voyaged 235,000 miles in first eight years of service without a mechanical breakdwon. [113] [114] | |
Oakes Ames Champlain 74 |
Car ferry Steamboat |
1868 1874 |
N. B. Proctor Champlain TC |
ton | Burlington SBC [k] | Lake Champlain | VB | 2 | 45 | 10 | 540 | Built as railroad car ferry in 1868 but converted into the passenger steamboat Champlain in 1874. Wrecked by grounding, 1875; engine to Horicon (1877). [116] [117] [118] |
←J. T. Waterman 58 George H. Power |
Ferry | 1869 | 165 [l] | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 37 | 7 | In service on original route for 52 years. Condemned 1927. [6] [7] [8] Original boiler still in "perfect condition" after 40 years' service. | |||
L. J. N. Stark | Freighter | 1869 | Devine Burtis | 400 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | cyl | str | 700 | Destroyed by fire, 1870. [119] [120] [121] |
Plainfield | Ferry | 1869 | Devine Burtis | 1051 | NJ Central RRC | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | 50 | 12 | Destroyed by fire, 1900. [122] [123] | |
Sylvan Glen | Steamboat | 1869 | Lawrence & Foulks | 350 | Harlem & New York NC | East River | VB | 1 | 40 | 8 | [4] [5] [124] | |
Castleton Mohawk [e] Richmond [e] Albion [e] Trenton 02 |
Ferry | 1870 | Benjamin C. Terry | 604 | Nth. Shore Staten Is. FC | is | VB | 1 | 48 | 10 | Rebuilt at Noank, CT, 1902; still in service 1923. [125] [126] [127] | |
Pleasant Valley | Steamboat | 1870 | Benjamin C. Terry | 400 | Palisade FC | New York— New Jersey | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Abandoned 1912. [128] [129] | |
Harlem | Steamboat | 1871 | Lawrence & Foulks | ton | Morrisania SBC | East River | VB | 1 | 44 | 8 | [130] [131] [132] | |
Vermont | Steamboat | 1871 | bldr | 1,124 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 55 | 12 | 1500 | [133] [134] [135] |
Sylvan Dell | Steamboat | 1872 | Lawrence & Foulks | 440 | Harlem & NY SBC | East River | VB | 1 | 51 | 8 | 700 | [5] [4] [136] [137] [138] |
America USS Despatch 73 |
Steam yacht | 1873 | Henry Steers | 730 | Henry N. Smith | Private use | VDA | 2 | 33 | 2.75 | Wrecked on Assateague Island, Virginia, 1891. [139] [140] [141] [142] [143] | |
Shady Side | Steamboat | 1873 | bldr | 444 | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 42 | 9 | 850 | [144] [145] [146] | |
Governor Andrew | Steamboat | 1874 | Lawrence & Foulks | 503 | Boston & Hingham SBC | Boston— Hingham | VB | 1 | cyl | str | [147] [148] [149] | |
J. Putnam Bradlee | Steamboat | 1875 | Lawrence & Foulks | 340 | City of Boston | Boston Harbor | VB | 1 | 36 | 8 | "[F]or the transportation of paupers and criminals to and from the different institutions in the harbor ..." [150] [151] | |
Pearl | Steamboat | 1875 | John Drackett | 405 | Clark | Put-In-Bay | VB | 1 | 46 | 9 | [152] [153] | |
Fanwood | Ferry | 1876 | Lawrence & Foulks | 1092 | NJ Central RRC | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | Out of documentation, 1904. [123] [154] [155] | ||
Idlewild | Steamboat | 1876 | Lawrence & Foulks | 632 | A. M. C. Smith | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 48 | 10 | Destroyed by fire, 1901. [156] [157] [158] [159] | |
←Champlain 74 Horicon |
Steamboat | 1877 | Lake George SBC | ton | Champlain TC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 45 | 10 | 270 | Out of service, 1911. [160] |
San Rafael | Steamboat | 1877 | Lawrence & Foulks | 692 | N. Pacific Coast RRC | San Francisco | VB | 1 | 50 | 11 | Fastest ferry in San Francisco Bay on entering service. Sunk in collision, 1901. [161] [162] [163] [164] | |
Saucelito | Steamboat | 1877 | Lawrence & Foulks | 692 | N. Pacific Coast RRC | San Francisco | VB | 1 | 50 | 11 | Destroyed by fire, 1884. [161] [162] [163] [165] | |
←Sylvan Shore 56 Annex |
Ferry | 1877 | bldr | 324 | Pennsylvania RRC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Disappears from shipping registers ca. 1895 [4] [5] [166] | |
Wm. M. Whitney →W. H. Frear 99 |
Ferry | 1877 | B. W. Springsteed & Son | 193 | Cpt. David H. Hitchcock | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 32 | 6 | Broken up, 1899 [167] [168] | |
←R. N. Rice 67 City of Detroit |
Steamer | 1878 | Detroit DD Co. | 1094 | Cleveland & Detroit NC | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 62.5 | 11 | [111] | |
Annex No. 3 →John G. Carlisle 96 |
Ferry | 1879 | bldr | 367 | Pennsylvania Annex [m] | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 35 | 7 | [166] [168] | |
George E. Starr | Steamer | 1879 | J. T. F. Mitchell | 472 | Cpt. L. M. Starr | Puget Sound | VB | 1 | 30 | 8 | [169] | |
Albany Potomac 34 |
Steamboat | 1880 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1347 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 73 | 12 | 3200 | Lengthened 1893; broken up 1949 and converted to barge; still in service 1960s. [41] [170] [171] [172] [173] |
City of Catskill | Steamboat | 1880 | Van Loon & Magee | ton | Catskill Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 56 | 12 | Destroyed by fire, 1883. [174] [175] [176] | |
City of Cleveland City of Alpena 85 State of Ohio 92 |
Steamer | 1880 | Detroit DD Co. | 1222 | Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 50 | 11 | Original engine built in 1847 by H. R. Dunham & Co. for United States (Champlain TC); rebuilt by Fletcher Co. for installation in City of Cleveland. Ship burned 1924, converted to barge and stranded 1929. [177] [178] | |
Daniel B. Babcock [179] | Tug | 1881 | Schuyler Towing | Albany, NY | 1 | 22 | 20 | |||||
Belle Horton [179] | Steamboat | 1881 | Van Loon & Magee | Citizen's Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | |||||
Cepheus | Ferry | 1881 | J. Roach & Sons | 882 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
Cetus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 847 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 850 | [180] [181] |
Cygnus | Ferry | 1881 | J. Roach & Sons | 857 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
Pegasus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 847 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 11 | 850 | [180] [181] |
Perseus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 847 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 850 | [180] [181] |
Sirius | Ferry | 1881 | J. Roach & Sons | 916 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
Taurus | Ferry | 1881 | Cramp & Sons | 916 | Iron SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 900 | [180] [181] |
City of Milwaukee Muskegon [e] |
Steamer | 1881 | Detroit DD Co. | 1149 | Goodrich | Lake Michigan | VB | 1 | 52 | 12 | 1500 | Sunk in collision, 29 killed, 1919. [182] [183] |
Reindeer | Steamboat | 1881 | bldr | ton | Grand Isle SBC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | cyl | str | 600 | [184] [185] |
Albertina | Steamboat | 1882 | Lawrence & Foulks | ton | Merchants Line | NY— Red Bank, NJ | VB | 1 | 38 | 10 | [186] [187] | |
City of Fall River | Steamer | 1882 | Montgomery & Howard | 2533 | Old Colony SBC | NY— Fall River, MA | CB | 1 | 44, 68 | 8, 12 | Dismantled, 1925. [188] [189] [190] [191] [192] | |
Kaaterskill | Steamboat | 1882 | Van Loan & Magee | 1361 | NY, Catskill & Athens SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 63 | 12 | [174] [171] [193] | |
Kecoughtan Luray 82 |
Steamboat | 1882 | Lawrence & Foulks | ton | Old Dominion SSC | Norfolk, VA | VB | 1 | 38 | 8 | [n] | |
Alaskan | Steamer | 1883 | Delaware Works | 1100 | Oregon R. & SBC | Columbia River | VB | 1 | cyl | str | First U.S.-built steamer with steel-plated hull. Fast ship. Sank in storm, 1889. [196] [197] [198] [199] | |
City of Mackinac State of New York 92 Florida18 |
Steamer | 1883 | Detroit DD Co. | 808 | Detroit & Cleveland SBC | Lake Huron | CB | 1 | 30, 44 | 6.66, 10 | Originally a salvaged single-cylinder 44 × 10 vertical beam engine, manufacturer unknown, compounded by Fletcher Co. in 1884. Ship converted to clubhouse at Chicago, 1936. [200] [201] [202] | |
Ticonderoga | Steamboat | 1883 | Lake George SBC | Lake Champlain TC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 40 | 9 | Last wood-hulled steamboat built for Lake George service. Destroyed by fire, 1901. [203] [204] | ||
F. P. James | Steamboat | 1884 | Sherwood | ton | Albany & Troy SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 36 | 8 | 150 | [205] |
City of Cleveland St. Ignace 07 Keystone 26 |
Steamer | 1885 | Detroit DD Co. | 1923 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Great Lakes | VB | 1 | 66 | 12 | Burned and hulked 1932, scrapped 1948. [206] [207] [208] [209] [178] | |
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Steamer | 1885 | Globe SBC | 538 | Darius Cole | Lake Michigan | VB | 1 | 46.5 | 10 | Destroyed by fire, 1925. [210] | |
Jacob H. Tremper | Steamboat | 1885 | Lawrence & Foulks | 572 | Romer & Tremper | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Broken up at Newburgh, New York, 1929 [211] | |
Long Island | Lighter | 1885 | 163 | Long Island RRC | New York Harbor | CS | 1 | 16, 28 | 2 | 275 | [212] [213] | |
City of Brockton | Freighter | 1886 | Montgomery & Howard | 2771 | Old Colony SBC | CB | 1 | 44, 68 | 9, 12 | Broken up, Newport, Rhode Island, 1929. [189] [214] [215] [216] [o] | ||
Orange | Ferry | 1886 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1096 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 46 | 10 | 600 | Dismantled, 1944. [217] [218] [219] |
Montclair | Ferry | 1886 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1095 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 46 | 10 | 600 | Dismantled, 1944. [217] [218] [219] |
Chateaugay | Steamboat | 1887 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 557 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | Converted into an automobile ferry, 1925. [220] [221] | |
New York | Steamboat | 1887 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1553 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 75 | 12 | Lengthened 1897. Destroyed by fire, 1908. [222] [223] [224] [225] | |
City of Detroit City of Detroit II 11 Goodtime 25 |
Steamer | 1888 | Detroit DD Co. | 1919 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Great Lakes | CB | 1 | 44, 68 | 8, 12 | Broken up Hamilton, Ontario, 1940. [104] [226] [227] [228] [229] [o] | |
Mount Hope | Steamer | 1888 | Montgomery & Howard | 880 | Fall River & Providence SBC | Rhode Island | VB | 1 | 46 | 10 | 1000 | [230] [231] |
Puritan | Steamboat | 1888 | Delaware Works | 4593 | Old Colony SBC | Boston— New York | CB | 1 | 75, 110 | 9, 14 | 7500 | Largest walking beam engine ever constructed. Ship sold to wreckers 1916; broken up, 1920. [232] [233] [234] [235] [236] |
Pierrepont Piermont [e] |
Ferry | 1889 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1087 | Union FC | East River | VB | 1 | 50 | 10 | 540 | Dismantled 1935. [237] [238] [239] |
City of Chicago City of St. Joseph 16 |
Steamer | 1890 | F. W. Wheeler & Co. | 1164 | Graham & Morton TC | Lake Michigan | CB | 1 | 36, 54 | 6.8, 10 | Barge 1936, sank Lake Superior 1942. [240] [241] [242] | |
Plymouth | Coastal Steamer | 1890 | Delaware Works | 3770 | Old Colony SBC | is | ITE | 1 | 50,75,2(81.5) | 8.25 | 5500 | Broken up Baltimore, 1938. [189] [243] [244] [245] [246] [247] |
Bremen Maplewood 18 |
Ferry** | 1891 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1253 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(20,36) | 2.33 | 1000 | First ferryboat with a double compound engine. Sister ship to Hamburg (see table). Broken up, 1948. [218] [219] [248] [249] [250] [251] |
C. E. Evarts James A. Lawrence |
Tugboat* | 1891 | 86 | NY Dept. of Surveyors | New York Harbor | CS | 1 | 17, 34 | 2 | [252] [253] [254] | ||
General Slocum | Steamboat | 1891 | Devine Burtis, Jr. | 1284 | Knickerbocker SBC | New York Harbor | VB | 1 | 53 | 12 | 1400 | Destroyed by fire in East River in 1904 with the loss of 1,021 lives in the worst New York City disaster prior to the September 2001 terrorist attacks. [255] [256] [257] |
Hamburg Chatham 18 Lackawanna 49 |
Ferry** | 1891 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1266 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(20,36) | 2.33 | 800 | Sister ship to Bremen ( see table). Broken up, New York, 1968. [218] [219] [258] [259] [251] |
Mayflower | Steamboat | 1891 | Montgomery & Howard | 778 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston— Hingham | VB | 1 | 48 | 9 | 800 | [147] [260] [261] |
City of Taunton | Freighter | 1892 | Montgomery & Howard | 2881 | Old Colony SBC | CB | 1 | 47, 71 | 8, 12 | 2800 | Broken up, 1929. [189] [262] [263] [264] | |
Clermont | Steam yacht | 1892 | Lawrence & Foulks | 299 | A. Van Santvoord | Private use | VB | 1 | 40 | 6 | [265] [266] [267] | |
Chippewa | Steamer | 1893 | Hamilton Bridge & Shipbuilding Co. | 1514 | Niagara NC | Lake Ontario | VB | 1 | 75 | 11 | 2000 | Largest sidewheeler ever to operate on Lake Ontario. Dismantled, 1939. [268] [269] [270] |
City of Alpena City of Alpena II 12 City of Saugatuck 22 Leona 41 Normil 45 |
Steamer | 1893 | Detroit DD Co. | 1735 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Lakes Huron, Erie | CB | 1 | 42, 66 | 88, 132 | Converted to barge, 1941; broken up at Menominee, MI, 1957. [271] [272] [273] | |
City of Mackinac City of Mackinac II 12 City of Holland 22 |
Steamer | 1893 | Detroit DD Co. | 1750 | Detroit & Cleveland SNC | Lake Huron | CB | 1 | 42, 66 | 7.4, 11 | Broken up, Sturgeon Bay, WI, 1938. [274] [275] [271] | |
Netherlands Oswego 36 |
Ferry* | 1893 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1129 | Hoboken FC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(18,38) | 2.33 | 800 | Broken up, Fieldsboro, New Jersey, 1956. [218] [276] [277] [278] [279] |
Priscilla | Steamboat | 1893 | Delaware Works | 5292 | Old Colony SBC | is | IC | 2 | 51, 95 | 11 | 8500 | World's largest sidewheeler on completion. Broken up, Baltimore, 1938. [189] [280] [281] [282] [243] |
City of Bangor | Steamer | 1894 | bldr | 1661 | Boston & Bangor SSC | Boston— Bangor | VB | 1 | 63 | 11 | 1200 | Sister ship of City of Rockland (1900). Laid up, 1927; sank at her moorings, 1933. [283] [284] [206] |
City of Buffalo | Steamer | 1895 | Detroit DD Co. | 2398 | Cleveland & Buffalo TC | Great Lakes | CB | 1 | 52, 80 | 8, 12 | 5500 | Sister ship to City of Erie (1898). Lengthened 1904; damaged by fire, 1938; broken up, 1940. [214] [285] [286] [287] [288] |
Myles Standish | Steamboat | 1895 | Montgomery & Howard | 700 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | CI | 1 | 31, 56 | 8 | 700 | Broken up, 1936. [289] [290] [291] [292] [293] |
Oneonta Norman |
Steam yacht* | 1895 | Delaware Works | 135 | Frank Tilford | Private use | TE | 1 | 13,21.75,35 | 1.33 | New or rebuilt engine installed in 1901 by Fletcher Co. to replace the original. [294] [295] [296] | |
Adirondack | Steamboat | 1896 | J. Englis & Son | 3644 | New Jersey SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 81 | 12 | 4000 | Foundered at Athens, New York, 1925. [41] [171] [222] [297] [298] |
←Annex No. 3 79 John G. Carlisle R. C. Reynolds 06 |
Ferry | 1896 | Robert Palmer | 210 | Albany–Troy SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 35 | 7 | [168] | |
Hingham Orient 01 Bay Queen 22 |
Steamboat | 1896 | Montgomery & Howard | 471 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | SI | 1 | 40 | 6 | 600 | Destroyed by fire, Mobile, Alabama, 1929. [299] [300] [289] |
Sovereign USS Scorpion (PY-3) |
Steam yacht** | 1896 | John N. Robins | 775 | M.C.D. Borden | Private use | TE | 2 | 15,24,39 | 1.75 | 2500 | Probably scrapped ca. 1927. [301] |
City of Erie | Steamer | 1898 | Detroit DD Co. | 2498 | Cleveland & Buffalo TC | Lake Erie | CB | 1 | 52, 80 | 8, 12 | Sister ship to City of Buffalo (1895). Broken up Cleveland, Ohio, 1941. [287] [302] [303] | |
Onteora | Steamboat | 1898 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1241 | Catskill Evening Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 55 | 10 | 1741 | [222] [304] [305] |
Brinkerhoff | Ferry | 1899 | bldr | 317 | Poughkeepsie & Highland FC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | cyl | str | In service until 1950; scrapped after museum ship plan failed to attract sufficent funding. [306] [307] [308] | |
Corsair USS Corsair (SP-159) 17 Corsair 19 USC&GS Oceanographer 30 USS Natchez (PG-85) 42 USS Oceanographer 42 |
Steam yacht** | 1899 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1136 | J. Pierpont Morgan | Private use | TE | 2 | 21,23,2(38) | 2.5 | 4550 | Scrapped ca. 1944. [309] [310] [311] [312] [313] |
Mobjack | Steamboat | 1899 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 610 | Old Dominion SSC | Norfolk, VA | VB | 1 | 42 | 9 | 1000 | Broken up, 1940. [314] [315] [316] [317] |
←Wm. M. Whitney 77 W. H. Frear |
Ferry | 1899 | W. H. Baldwin | 261 | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 32 | 7 | [167] [168] | ||
City of Rockland | Steamer | 1900 | William McKie | 1696 | Boston & Bangor SSC | Boston— Bangor | VB | 1 | 63 | 11 | Sister ship of City of Bangor (1894). Burned for salvage after running aground, 1924. [284] [318] [319] [320] | |
John Englis | Ferry | 1900 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1022 | NY & Brooklyn FC | East River | VB | 1 | 50 | 10 | 700 | Scrapped 1940. [321] [322] [323] [324] |
Harry B. Hollins New Amsterdam [e] |
Ferry | 1900 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1019 | NY & Brooklyn FC | East River | VB | 1 | 50 | 10 | 700 | Scrapped 1940. [321] [322] [325] [324] |
Thomas Patten Governor Harrington [p] [e] |
Steamboat | 1901 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 875 | Patten Line | Shrewsbury River | VB | 1 | 51 | 8 | 1300 | [316] [326] [327] [328] [329] |
Isis USC&GS Isis 15 USS Isis USC&GS Isis 19 |
Steam yacht** | 1901 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 377 | W. S. & J. T. Spaulding | Private use | VTE | 2 | 12,18.5,29 | 1.66 | 2000 | Struck and sank off Crescent Beach, Florida, 1920. [330] [331] [332] [333] |
West Point | Ferry | 1901 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1328 | West Shore RRC | Hudson River | C | 2 | 18, 38 | 28 | 1400 | Dismantled 1948. [321] [334] [335] [336] |
Nantasket | Steamboat | 1902 | Montgomery & Howard | 739 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | SI | 1 | 52 | 9 | 1200 | Destroyed by fire at Hull, Massachusetts, 1929. [260] [289] [337] |
Newark | Ferry* | 1902 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1308 | Pennsylvania RRC | Hudson River | C | 1 | 22, 2(32) | 2 | 750 | Broken up, Baltimore, 1951. [338] [339] [340] [341] [342] [343] |
Ransom B. Fuller | Steamer | 1902 | New England Shipbuilding Co. | 1562 | Eastern SSC | Boston— Bath | VB | 1 | 63 | 11 | 1600 | Lengthened 45 feet, 1910; sold to wreckers 1935. [284] [344] [345] |
Sagamore | Steamboat | 1902 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1400 | Champlain TC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 44 | 10 | 850 | [346] [347] |
Vermont | Steamboat | 1902 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 55 | 10 | 1800 | [326] [348] [349] | |
C. W. Morse | Steamboat | 1903 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 4307 | New Jersey SBC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 81 | 12 | 4500 | Broken up, New Haven, CT, 1936. [41] [350] [351] |
Happy Day Majestic [e] |
Steamboat | 1903 | bldr | 717 | VB | 1 | 44 | 8 | 750 | Launched in 1903 but not completed until 1908. [352] [353] [354] | ||
Intrepid | Steam yacht | 1903 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 330 | Lloyd Phoenix | Private use | CS | 1 | 9, 21 | 1.33 | [355] [330] [356] | |
Syracuse | Ferry** | 1903 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1344 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(18,38) | 2.33 | 1400 | [335] [336] [357] [358] [359] |
J. T. Morse Yankee 33 |
Steamer | 1904 | William McKie | 780 | Eastern SSC | Penobscot Bay | VB | 1 | 51 | 9 | 600 | Condemned 1941. [360] [361] |
Hendrick Hudson | Steamboat | 1906 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 2847 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | CI | 1 | 45,70,70 | 7 | 6200 | Broken up Philadelphia, 1951. [41] [222] [362] [363] |
Ticonderoga | Steamboat | 1906 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 892 | Champlain TC | Lake Champlain | VB | 1 | 53 | 9 | 1800 | Retired 1953; now a museum ship and the last surviving steamboat with a walking beam engine. [364] [365] [366] |
Perth Amboy | Ferry | 1907 | Staten Island RRC | VB | 1 | 42 | 9 | 600 | [367] [368] | |||
Princeton [Y] Berkshire [q] |
Steamboat | 1907 | New York Ship | 4300 | Hudson NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 84 | 12 | 4500 | Ship launched in 1907 but not completed until 1913. Out of service by 1946. [367] [369] [41] [370] |
Mohican** | Steamboat** | 1908 | Lake George SBC | Lake George | C | 2 | 10, 21.5 | 16 | 600 | [367] [316] | ||
Trojan New Yorker 39 |
Steamboat | 1908 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 2517 | Hudson NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 70 | 12 | 2800 | Destroyed by fire, 1940. [41] [371] [350] [372] |
Rensselaer | Steamboat | 1909 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 2690 | Hudson NC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 70 | 12 | 2800 | Converted into barge James River, 1947; broken up, 1964. [41] [350] [372] [373] |
Robert Fulton | Steamboat | 1909 | New York Ship | 2168 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 75 | 12 | 4000 | Beached 1960, scrapped 1968. [41] [372] [374] [375] [r] |
Horicon | Steamboat | 1910 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | ton | Lake George SBC | Lake George | VB | 1 | 52 | 10 | 1500 | [376] [377] [378] |
Utica | Ferry* | 1910 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1351 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1400 | Sold 1939; floating restaurant 1960; broken up 1973. [335] [379] [380] |
Clermont Bear Mountain 48 |
Steamboat | 1911 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1864 | Catskill & NY TC | Hudson River | VB | 1 | 55 | 11 | 2000 | Broken up, Bordentown, New Jersey, 1951. [305] [222] [378] [381] [382] |
Primeira | Ferry | 1911 | Govt. of Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | VB | 1 | cyl | str | 450 | [378] | ||
Aquehonga | Ferry | 1912 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 290 | NJ & Staten Is. FC | New Jersey | VB | 1 | 30 | 6 | 280 | Sold 1932 and foundered the same year [36] [383] [384] |
Niagara | Ferry* | 1912 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1250 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1600 | Hulk 1959; broken up, Hudson River, 1975. [335] [385] [386] [387] [388] [389] |
Rose Standish | Steamboat | 1912 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 993 | Nantasket Beach SBC | Boston | CI | 1 | 31, 56 | 8.5 | 1500 | Destroyed by fire, 1929. [260] [293] [390] [391] [389] |
Washington Irving | Steamboat | 1912 | New York Ship | 3104 | Hudson R. Day Line | Hudson River | CI | 1 | 45, 2(70) | 7 | 6200 | Sunk in collision off Hoboken, New Jersey, 1926; broken up, 1927. [41] [350] [392] [393] [394] [395] |
Guanabara | Ferry | 1913 | bldr | ton | ob | Brazil | VB | 1 | cyl | str | Last walking beam engine produced by W. & A. Fletcher Co. [396] | |
New York Central No. 18 | Tugboat | 1913 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 255 | NY Central RRC | New York Harbor | CS | 1 | 20, 42 | 2.33 | 1087 | [335] [397] [398] |
Catskill | Ferry** | 1914 | T. S. Marvel & Co. | 1400 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1400 | Destroyed by fire, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1952. [335] [387] [399] [400] |
Weehawken | Ferry** | 1914 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1402 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | 1600 | Foundered, Jersey City, 1965. [335] [387] [400] [401] |
Fort Lee | Ferry* | 1915 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1080 | Riverside & Fort Lee FC | Hudson River | C | 1 | 17, 34 | 26 | 1000 | Scrapped ca. 1950. [402] [403] [404] [405] |
New York Central No. 3 | Tugboat* | 1916 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 210 | New York Central RRC | New York Harbor | C | 1 | 20, 40 | 2.16 | [397] [406] [407] | |
New York Central No. 9 | Tugboat* | 1916 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 219 | New York Central RRC | New York Harbor | C | 1 | 20, 40 | 2.16 | [397] [406] [407] | |
Stony Point | Ferry** | 1917 | Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1391 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | 2(19,38) | 2.33 | Hulked 1960; broken up, Tampa, Florida, 1964. [335] [387] [408] [409] [410] | |
Albany | Ferry** | 1925 | Staten Island SB Co. | 1389 | New York Central RRC | Hudson River | DC | 1 | cyl | str | Last engine (No. #303) built by W. & A. Fletcher Co. Ship derelict 1959; broken up, Jersey City, 1965. [387] [396] [411] |
Ship | Turbine(s) | Ship fate | Ship notes; references | |||||||||
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Name | Type | Yr. [s] |
Builder | Tons [t] |
Ordered by | Intended service | # | #S | SHP | How | When | |
Governor Cobb USCGC Cobb 43 |
Coastal pass. | 1906 | Delaware Works | 2522 | Eastern SSC | Boston— St. John, N. B. | 3 | 3 | 4500 | Scrapped | 1947 | First ship powered by American-built steam turbines. Ship later converted into world's first helicopter carrier. [361] [412] [413] [414] [415] |
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Coastal pass. | 1906 | Delaware Works | 3731 | Metropolitan SSC | Boston— New York | no | 3 | 10000 | Scrapped | 1949 | Second ship powered by American-built steam turbines, and fastest U.S. merchant steamer of the era along with sister ship Harvard (see table). Also reportedly world's first oil-fired turbine ship following conversion in 1910. [416] [417] [418] [419] |
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Coastal pass. | 1907 | Delaware Works | 3737 | Metropolitan SSC | Boston— New York | no | 3 | 10000 | Wrecked | 1931 | Third ship powered by American-built steam turbines and fastest U.S. merchant steamer of the era along with sister ship Yale (see table); also one of world's first oil-fired turbine ships following 1910 conversion. [420] [421] [422] [419] |
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Tanker | 1917 | Baltimore DD & SB Co. | 3322 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 1300 | Scrapped | 1955 | [423] [424] [425] |
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Cargo | 1918 | J. Coughlan & Sons | 5825 | British Govt. | Scrapped | 1958 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1923. [426] [427] | ||||
Chipchung | Cargo | 1918 | Moore DD | 6163 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [428] [429] [430] | |
Mulpua | Cargo | 1918 | Moore DD | 6139 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [431] [432] | |
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Cargo | 1918 | Moore & Scott | 6002 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [433] [434] [435] | |
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Cargo | 1918 | Moore DD | 6002 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [436] [437] [438] [439] |
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Cargo | 1919 | Federal SB & DD Co. | 6517 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2600 | Bombed | 1944 | [440] [441] |
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Cargo | 1919 | Merrill-Stevens | 3532 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2000 | Scrapped | 1965 | [442] [443] [444] |
Askawake | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle N. Pacific | 6148 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [445] [446] |
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Tanker | 1919 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7366 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | Scrapped | 1947 | [447] [448] [406] | ||
Chepadoa | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle Nth. Pacific | 6035 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1936 | [449] [450] [451] | |
Chicomico | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle Nth. Pacific | 6032 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | Scrapped | 1931 | [452] [453] | |
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Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 5963 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed, shelled | 1942 | [454] [455] [456] |
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Cargo | 1919 | Merrill-Stevens | 3513 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2000 | Explosion, fire | 1937 | Re-engined with diesel, 1925. [457] [458] | |
Naugus | Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 6037 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1930 | [459] [460] [461] [462] | |
Osaqumsick | Cargo | 1919 | Seattle Nth. Pacific | 6001 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1931 | [463] [464] [465] | |
Quillwark | Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 6034 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [466] [467] | |
Tuckanuck | Cargo | 1919 | Moore SBC | 6091 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1929 | [468] [469] |
West Jaffrey | Cargo | 1919 | Northwest Steel | 5663 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | Wrecked | 1942 | [470] [471] | |
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Cargo | 1919 | Northwest Steel | 5704 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1957 | [472] [473] |
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Cargo | 1919 | Moore DD | 5997 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1946 | [474] [475] [476] | |
Bessemer City | Cargo | 1920 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Wrecked | 1936 | [477] [478] |
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Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SBC | 7366 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1963 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1925. Hulked, Savona, Italy, 1955. [479] [480] | |
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Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7641 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1954 | [481] [482] | |
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Cargo | 1920 | Merrill-Stevens | 3853 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2000 | Torpedoed | 1942 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1929. [483] [484] [485] |
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Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB Co. | 7506 | Calvert NC Inc. | Not known | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1943 | [486] [487] [488] | |
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Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7641 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1947 | [489] [490] [491] |
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Cargo | 1920 | Newburgh Shipyards | 4421 | Union Sulphur | 2 | 2 | 3600 | Scrapped | 1950 | "Novel" twin screw propulsion system with high-pressure turbine driving one screw and low-pressure the other. Sister ship of Henry D. Whiton (see table). [492] [493] [494] | |
Honnedaga | Cargo | 1920 | Groton Iron Works | 6216 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1930 | [495] [496] | |
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Cargo | 1920 | Moore Dry Dock | 6085 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | hp | Probably hulked | ca. 1960 | [497] [498] |
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Tanker | 1920 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7366 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1948 | Re-engined with diesel, 1923. [499] [500] | |
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Cargo | 1920 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Scrapped | 1958 | [501] [502] [503] [504] |
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Cargo | 1920 | Moore SBC | 6034 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1941 | [505] [506] [507] |
Narbo | Cargo | 1920 | Moore DD | 6085 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Wrecked | 1945 | [508] [509] [510] |
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Cargo | 1920 | Moore SBC | 6085 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [508] [509] [511] |
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Cargo | 1920 | Doullut & Williams | 6171 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1946 | Re-engined with diesel, 1929. [512] [513] | |
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Cargo | 1920 | Merril-Stevens | 3513 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2000 | Torpedoed | 1943 | [434] [514] [515] [516] | |
Potter | Cargo | 1920 | Doullut & Williams | 6171 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scuttled | 1944 | Re-engined with diesel, 1929. Scuttled as part of Gooseberry No. 1, Normandy, France, 1944. [517] [518] | |
Provincetown | Cargo | 1920 | Groton Iron Works | 6216 | USSB | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1938 | [519] [520] [521] |
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Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 1 | 3100 | Scuttled | 1957 | Reportedly scuttled in insurance fraud. [522] [523] [524] [525] | |
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Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U. S. Steel | Not known | 1 | 3100 | Scrapped | 1960 | [522] [523] [526] [527] | |
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Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U.S. Steel | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Scrapped | 1947 | [528] [529] [530] |
Steel Worker | Cargo | 1920 | Federal SB & DD | 5686 | U.S. Steel | 1 | 3100 | Mined | 1942 | [528] [531] [532] [533] | ||
Tuscaloosa City | Cargo | 1920 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [534] [535] [536] [537] |
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Cargo | 1920 | Merrill-Stevens | 3513 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 1 | 2000 | Scrapped | 1948 | [538] [401] [539] |
Chattanooga City | Cargo | 1921 | Chickasaw SB | 5687 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | Torpedoed | 1943 | [540] [541] [542] | |
Fairfield City | Cargo | 1921 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | 3100 | Bombed | 1942 | [543] [544] [545] [546] |
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Cargo | 1921 | Newburgh Shipyards | 4438 | Union Sulphur | 2 | 2 | 3600 | Scrapped | 1959 | Sister ship of Herman Frasch (see table) and with same propulsion system. [493] [547] [548] [549] | |
Knoxville City | Cargo | 1921 | Chickasaw SB | 5686 | U.S. Steel | As required | 2 | 1 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [550] [551] [552] | |
Lio | Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7245 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1937 | Re-engined with diesel, 1925. [553] [554] | |
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Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7096 | Bethship | Unspecified | 2 | 1 | 3000 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [555] [556] [557] |
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Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7245 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1955 | Re-engined with triple expansion, 1925. [558] [559] | |
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Tanker | 1921 | Baltimore DD & SB | 7245 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Scrapped | 1947 | Re-engined with diesel, 1926. [560] [561] | |
Wichita | Cargo | 1921 | Doullut & Williams | 6171 | USSB | Unspecified | 1 | 2800 | Torpedoed | 1942 | [562] [563] | |
Carabobo North Coast 38 Mayon 46 |
Pass./cargo | 1923 | New York SB | 2916 | Atlantic & Caribbean SNC | 2 | 1 | Scrapped | 1955 | [564] [565] |
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