Divine Burtis

New York Ny and Brooklyn NY

Divine Burtis started his shipbuilding business in 1840 and closed it in 1905. (Note that reliable sources, including his tombstone, say that his first name was Divine, not Devine, although the latter spelling is common throughout the usual maritime sources.) The yard was originally located in Manhattan but moved in the 1850s to a site at the foot of Conover Street, in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where Pier 44 is today. The table below is clearly incomplete: did he never build anything that wasn't a ferry.

O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
North America Hudson River Line ferry 499 1840 to USA 1863
South America Hudson River Line ferry 638 1840 foundered 1864
19919 Perry ferry 255 1846 Delaware 1882
16663 Manhattan ferry 447 1847 abandoned 1869
Whitehall Union Ferry Co. ferry 323 1850 to USN 1861, burned 1862 off Fort Monroe
4857 Colden Pennsylvania RR ferry 577 1851 barge 1891
Gowanus Union Ferry Co. ferry 417 1851 abandoned 1857
Fulton Union Ferry Co. ferry 410 1852 sold 1863, abandoned 1867
22095 Atlantic ferry 650 1857 to USN 1863 as Commodore Read, State of Maryland 1865
13192 John S. Darcy Pennsylvania RR ferry 614 1857 deleted 1903
12982 John P. Jackson Pennsylvania RR ferry 777 1860 to US Govt 1860, abandoned 1871
19903 Pavonia Erie RR ferry 864 1861 later Rutherford, abandoned 1911
13158 Jersey City Pennsylvania RR ferry 982 1862 scrapped 1917
4876 Communipaw Central RR of NJ ferry 1,028 1863 deleted 1905
4877 Central Central RR of NJ ferry 1,023 1863 deleted 1903
18277 New York Pennsylvania RR ferry 881 1863 scrapped 1905
18278 Newark Pennsylvania RR ferry 661 1864 Amenia 1879, deleted 1903
18295 New Brunswick Pennsylvania RR ferry 909 1866 burned 1896
8281 Elizabeth Central RR of NJ ferry 1,082 1867 burned 1901
20296 Plainfield Central RR of NJ ferry 1,051 1869 burned 1900
150187 Princeton Pennsylvania RR ferry 888 1879 scrapped 1909
116026 Steinway Astoria Ferry Co. ferry 354 1884 to City of New York 1922, deleted 1939
86154 General Slocum Knickerbocker SS Co tour boat 1,284 1891 burned and sank 1904
150931 Port Morris NY & Coll. Pt Ferry Co. ferry 534 1901 Nathan Hale 1920, Ridgefield 1928, Governor King, scrapped 1934

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