Jeremiah Simonson
Greenpoint NY
Most recent update: August 4, 2015.
Joseph Bishop & Jeremiah Simonson started this shipyard in 1834, at the foot of Walnut Street, in Manhattan. The partnership broke up in 1849 and Jeremiah Simonson, who was fortunate enough to be Cornelius Vanderbilt's nephew, moved the yard to Greenpoint in 1855, to a site at the foot of Calyer Street. The table below is clearly incomplete:
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| Name | O/N | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes |
| Built by Bishop & Simonson in Manhattan | |||||||
| Lexington | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 488 | 207 | 1835 | burned 1840 | |
| Cleopatra | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 402 | 193 | 1836 | sold foreign 1852 | |
| Governor Dudley | passenger freighter | 408 | 1838 | sold 1857 as Catawba, sold foreign 1860 | |||
| Osiris | passenger freighter | 145 | 1838 | captured 1861 | |||
| Worcester | passenger freighter | 605 | 219 | 1841 | to USA 1861 | ||
| Iolas | passenger freighter | 180 | 135 | 1842 | to USA 1865, sold 1866 as Gipsey | ||
| Traveller | 24269 | passenger freighter | 584 | 225 | 1845 | deleted 1873 | |
| Atlantic | passenger freighter | 1,112 | 320 | 1846 | wrecked 1846 | ||
| Antelope | 1212 | passenger freighter | 425 | 1847 | deleted 1888 | ||
| Commodore | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 984 | 275 | 1848 | lost 1866 | |
| State of Maine | 22877 | passenger freighter | 806 | 1848 | sold foreign 1871 | ||
| Ohio | U.S. Mail SS Co | passenger freighter | 2,432 | 248 | 1849 | scrapped 1860 | |
| Built by Jeremiah Simonson in Manhattan | |||||||
| Prometheus | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 1,207 | 1850 | sold foreign 1857 | ||
| Northern Light | 18204 | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 1,768 | 1851 | scrapped 1875 | |
| Hunchback | 10135 | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 517 | 1852 | to USN 1861, sold 1866 as General Grant, deleted 1880 | |
| Star of the West | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 1,172 | 1852 | captured 1861, renamed CSS St. Philip, scuttled 1863 | ||
| North Star | 18302 | U.S. Mail SS Co | passenger freighter | 1,867 | 270 | 1853 | scrapped 1865 |
| Plymouth Rock | 20151 | passenger freighter | 1,752 | 330 | 1854 | deleted 1887 | |
| Ariel | 797 | passenger freighter | 1,295 | 250 | 1855 | lost 1873 | |
| Granada | passenger freighter | 1,059 | 1855 | lost 1860 | |||
| Clifton | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 117 | 1856 | deleted 1858 | ||
| Built by Jeremiah Simonson in Greenpoint | |||||||
| Vanderbilt | 24964 | N. Atlantic Mail SS Co | passenger freighter | 3,360 | 331 | 1856 | to USN 1862, sold 1873 as Three Brothers, scrapped 1899 |
| Magnolia | 16989 | passenger freighter | 843 | 1857 | captured 1862, recaptured 1862, sold 1865, deleted 1866 | ||
| Galveston | passenger freighter | 945 | 1857 | captured 1862 as General Quitman, burned 1862 | |||
| Orizaba | passenger freighter | 595 | 1858 | captured 1862, stranded in Texas 1865 | |||
| Long Island | 22097 | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 474 | 300 | 1859 | deleted 1906 |
| Santiago de Cuba | 22825 | Valienti & Co. | passenger freighter | 1,567 | 1861 | sold 1886 as barge Marion | |
| Seneca | US Navy | gunboat | 507 | 1861 | sold 1868 | ||
| Connecticut | 18307 | US Navy | passenger freighter | 2,150 | 1861 | sold 1865 as South America, deleted 1875 | |
| Westfield | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 891 | 1861 | to USN 1861, scuttled in Texas 1863 | ||
| Northfield | 18276 | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 855 | 1862 | lost 1902 | |
| Clifton | 15434 | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 700 | 1862 | to USN 1863 as Shokokon, sold 1865 as Lone Star, sunk in Texas 1868 | |
| Westfield | 26504 | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 807 | 1862 | to City of New York 1906, deleted 1912 | |
| Union | 18303 | passenger freighter | 2,085 | 1862 | to USN 1863 as Fort Jackson, sold 1865 as North America, deleted 1879 | ||
| Costa Rica | 4882 | C. Vanderbilt | passenger freighter | 984 | 1863 | sold 1875 as Genaki Maru | |
| Yesso | Dearborn & Co. | passenger freighter | 973 | 1864 | to China 1864 | ||
| Chenango | US Navy | gunboat | 1,173 | 1864 | sold 1868 | ||
| New York | 18301 | N. Atlantic Mail SS Co | passenger freighter | 2,217 | 1865 | sold 1874 as Tokio Maru, scrapped 1880s | |
| Paou Shun | 18305 | Dearborn & Co. | passenger freighter | 1,691 | 1865 | sold 1867 as Nevada, sold foreign 1877, scrapped 1885 | |
| Susquehanna | 22797 | Erie RR | ferry | 921 | 1865 | sold 1912 as Arden, deleted 1924 | |
| Walrus | 26521 | NY & Phila. SB Co. | passenger freighter | 1,633 | 253 | 1866 | to China 1869, Chusan 1872 |
| Nautilus | 18299 | NY & Phila. SB Co. | passenger freighter | 1,633 | 253 | 1866 | to China 1869, Fychow 1872 |
| Grampus | 10500 | NY & Phila. SB Co. | passenger freighter | 1,633 | 253 | 1866 | sold 1868 as Stonington, barge 1894 |
| Manatus | 18475 | NY & Phila. SB Co. | passenger freighter | 1,633 | 253 | 1866 | sold 1868 as Narragansett, schooner 1901 |