American Shipbuilding
Philadelphia PA
Most recent update: May 18, 2016.
American Shipbuilding Company - no connection with the AmShip yards on the Great Lakes - was organized by Henry Honeychurch Gorringe in 1883, failed in 1884 and was liquidated in 1885. In its short life, it nevertheless turned out 16 vessels.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Delivered | Notes | |
| 1 | 145351 | T. F. Oakes | William H. Starbuck | ship | 1,996 | Oct 1883 | New York 1897, wrecked 1898 in Half Moon Bay CA | |
| 2 | New York owner | tugboat | 188? | |||||
| 3 | 126195 | Clarence S. Bement | Jacob E. Ridgway | ship | 1,998 | Jan 1884 | burned 1903 off Port Edgar | |
| 4 | New York owner | tugboat | 188? | |||||
| 5 ? | 145381 | Transit | Philadelphia owner | tugboat | 148 | 1884 | abandoned 1942 | |
| 6 | 110624 | Red Wing | David W. Johnson | schooner | 437 | Apr 1884 | ||
| 7 | Spain | Antonio Lopez | F. Latasa & Co (Cuba) | tugboat | 68 | Dec 1883 | to Spanish Navy 1895 | |
| 8 | Jonathan Knight | Capitain Malloy | schooner | 1,200 | 1884 | wrecked 1884 | ||
| 9 | 76485 | J. H. Rutter | N.Y.Central & H.R. RR | tugboat | 103 | 1884 | New York Central No. 9 1901, G. C. Cleveland 1915, William J. Tracy 1920, dismantled 1951 | |
| 10 | 120591 | Frostburg | Consolidation Coal Co | freighter | 926 | July 1884 | Theodore Weems 1907, in collision and sank 1915 | |
| 11 | Bowery Dumping Co | dump barge | 188? | |||||
| 12 | Smith & Ziegler | freighter | 188? | |||||
| 13 | South American owner | sternwheeler | 188? | |||||
| 14 | Heroe | South American owner | sidewheeler | June 1884 | ||||
| 15 | 95800 | Hygeia | Galveston Health Auth. | passenger | 47 | 1884 | ||
| 16 | 126269 | Chatham | Merchants & MinersCo | passenger | 2,728 | Sep 1884 | to USN 1898 as Vulcan, Chatham 1899, wrecked 1910 off Jacksonville |