Thomas and William Collyer
New York NY
Most recent update: August 26, 2021.
Thomas Collyer and William Collyer were brothers who had started in shipbuilding up the Hudson River. In 1844 they went into a partnership, in a shipyard in Manhattan, at the foot of 12th Street. In 1847, however, they dissolved the partnership, with William staying put and Thomas moving to a yard at the foot of 21st Street. Both continued to build ships until the end of the Civil War. The table below is clearly incomplete:
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| Built by Thomas Collyer | ||||||||
| 1706 | Armenia | Hudson River Day Line | sidewheel | 398 | 1847 | burned in Alexandria VA 1886 | ||
| Bienville | C. & R. Poillon | sidewheel | 986 | 1851 | United States 1852, sold to Cuban owners in 1855 and renamed Mexico | |||
| Caribbean/El Dorado | U.S. Mail SS Co | sidewheel | 1,049 | 1851 | scrapped 1857 | |||
| Confucius | sidewheel | 468 | 1853 | sold foreign 1855 | ||||
| Spirit of the Times | Griswold & Co | clipper ship | 1,200 | 1853 | ||||
| Peiho | Russell & Co | sidewheel | 1,113 | 1859 | later Takiang, foundered in Japan 1869 | |||
| White Cloud | sidewheel | 520 | 1859 | later Pak Yun | ||||
| Hankow | Forbes & Co. | sidewheel | 800 | 1861 | sold foreign 1863, burned 1865 | |||
| 10524 | Honduras | sidewheel | 375 | 1861 | to USN 1863, Governor Marvin, wrecked Key West 1870 | |||
| Shantung | Everett & Co. | sidewheel | 600 | 1862 | sold foreign 1863 | |||
| 812 | Thomas Collyer | Alliance Machine Co. | sidewheel | 506 | 1862 | to QMD 1863, Antelope | ||
| Touitia | Russell & Co. | sidewheel | 502 | 1862 | sold foreign 1863 as Taoutai | |||
| Built by William Collyer | ||||||||
| Reindeer | New Brunswick SB Co | sidewheel | 790 | 1850 | sunk by boiler explosion in Hudson R. 1852 | |||
| St. Lawrence | sidewheel | 588 | 1850 | sold foreign 1856 | ||||
| 17979 | General Bragg | Charles Morgan | screw | 1,043 | 1851 | later CSS General Bragg, captured 1862, sold as Mexico 1865 | ||
| Sierra Nevada | Empire City Line | sidewheel | 1,246 | 1852 | wrecked on a reef south of Monterey 1869 | |||
| Black Warrior | NY & Mobile SS Co | sidewheel | 1,350 | 1852 | wrecked off Rockaway 1859 | |||
| 10044 | George Law | Thomas Collyer | sidewheel | 228 | 1852 | burned off NJ 1894 | ||
| Texas | Empire City Line | steamer | 1,246 | 1852 | grounded and wrecked off San Simeon, CA, 1869 | |||
| Panama | N.L. & G. Griswold | clipper ship | 1,139 | 1853 | ||||
| 4862 | Cahawba | sidewheel | 1,643 | 1854 | to QMD 1864 | |||
| Mercury | sidewheel | 187 | 1854 | to USN 1861 | ||||
| Nashville | Spofford, Tileston & Co | sidewheel | 1,220 | 1854 | later CSS Nashville, Thomas L. Wragg, CSS Rattlesnake, destroyed 1863 | |||
| NY & Mobile SS Co | steamer | 1,350 | 1854 | |||||
| Jacob Duryea | barge | 1854 | ||||||
| Alice C. Price | sidewheel | 283 | 1854 | to War Dept. 1863, sunk in Florida 1864 | ||||
| Josephine G. Collyer | schooner | 1854 | ||||||
| Roebuck | Reynolds & Cushman | clipper ship | 456 | 1856 | ||||
| 4888 | Columbia | Spofford, Tileston & Co | sidewheel | 1,347 | 1857 | scrapped 1876 | ||
| 7717 | Dawn | George Savory, et al. | sidewheel | 387 | 1857 | to USN 1861, Eutaw, wrecked off NJ 1869 | ||
| 19542 | Western World | sidewheel | 441 | 1857 | to USN 1861, Petersburg | |||
| Yangtsze | Russell & Co | sidewheel | 1,003 | 1857 | sold foreign 1861 | |||
| Fire-Dart | Heard & Co. | sidewheel | 660 | 1860 | sold foreign 1866 | |||
| 27577 | Yankee | Sdewheel | 376 | 1860 | to USN 1861, sold foreign 1871 | |||
| 16795 | Monohansett | New Bedford & Edgartown SB Co | sidewheel | 450 | 1865 | wrecked off Salem MA 1904 | ||