Abbott Shipbuilding

Milford DE

Most recent update: December 24, 2020.

James W. Abbott started this shipyard in Milford in 1869: his son, William, took over in 1883 and ran it until it closed in the 1930s. The yard was on the south side of the Mispillion River, at the foot of McColley Street, next door to the Vinyard shipyard. See it from the air on Google here. As usual with the older yards, Abbott Shipbuilding's construction record is seriously incomplete.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
111372 Robert Jno. Beswick Daniel Walls freighter 105 80 1901
201541 Charles J. Dumas freighter 697 1904 wrecked off Pea Island 1911
202432 J. Lloyd Hawkridge Irving E. DeWick freighter 121 90 1905
202913 City of Milford passenger 264 127 1906
204223 William Numsen Foam Corp. freighter 111 110 1907 later James W. Johnson
205278 Calhoun E. Ross Benjamin S. Coulbourn schooner 438 160 1908
206347 LaForrest L. Simmons Charles D. Luther schooner 132 89 1909
207707 May Charles Gring tugboat 121 88 1910 later Mary C. McNally, Dewey
208804 G. H. McNeal McNeal Dodson & Co. fishing boat 244 128 1911
209954 City of Lewes Lewes Fisheries freighter 254 136 1912
210784 F. Mansfield & Sons F. Mansfield & Sons freighter 214 100 1912 to USCG as Shrub
212471 George F. Pierce Balto. & Phila. SS Co. freighter 252 121 1912 later Betterton
210331 Henlopen Lewes Fisheries fishing boat 254 136 1912
211786 Despatch Southern Pacific Co. tugboat 195 100 1913
211510 Edith B Steamer H. C. Rowe freighter 196 100 1913 later Catherine Johnson, Vera Gordon Rowe
211326 Rehoboth Lewes Fisheries fishing boat 273 136 1913
212389 David W. Burbage Kilmarnock Fish Prod. fishing boat 286 140 1914 later Pocahontas
213637 George H. Johnson Newark Terminal Co. lighter 172 100 1915 later Belleville
214286 Caesar A. Grasselli Grasselli Chemical Co. tugboat 183 102 1916
215151 Shenandoah Baltimore & Ohio RR Co. tugboat 183 102 1916
215632 Albert F. Paul C. C. Paul & Co. schooner 735 174 1917
216453 E. Warren Edwards Edwards Co. tugboat 214 125 1918
217915 Collora Ford Motor Co. tugboat 190 125 1919 later Ford No. 1
218139 John Baylis McNeal Co. fishing boat 226 124 1919 later Henry W. Conant
219026 Socony 24 Standard Oil Co. of NY tugboat 115 78 1919
219027 Socony 25 Standard Oil Co. of NY tugboat 115 78 1919
222416 Louise Marine Products fishing boat 530 167 1922
223752 express Southern Pacific Co. freighter 194 105 1922
225206 Charles H. Markham Ocean SS Co. of Savannah tugboat 108 79 1925
224695 Maurania Providence SB Co. tugboat 169 91 1925
226212 G. & E. No. 1 Consol. Gas & Elec. tugboat 113 79 1926
230330 Venus Mystic Steamship tugboat 165 89 1930

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