Continental Iron Works

Greenpoint NY

Most recent update: May 23, 2016.

This yard was established by Samuel Sneeden in 1851, became Sneeden & Rowland in 1858, and then Continental Iron Works, managed by Thomas Rowland, in 1859. The yard was at West and Calyer Streets, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn: the site is now occupied by a Consolidated Freightways terminal. The company ceased active shipbuilding in 1889.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
Built by Sneeden & Co.
William Gibbons passenger freighter 294 1833 stranded 1836 on Body Island
Bay State passenger freighter 1,600 1846 abandoned 1864
7607 Plymouth Rock passenger freighter 1,598 1848 later Empire State, burned 1887 in Bristol RI
Cuba passenger freighter 508 1851
4855 California passenger freighter 480 1852 abandoned 1878
4562 City of Hartford Hartford & NY SB Co passenger freighter 814 1852 Capital City 1883, wrecked 1888 in LI Sound
10332 Granite State C. W. Chapin passenger freighter 887 1853 burned 1883 off Goodspeed Landing
Metacomet passenger freighter 395 1854 to USN 1858 as Pulaski
16760 Metropolis Bay State SB Co passenger freighter 2,210 1854 barge 1873, wrecked 1878 on Currituck NC
Christoval Colon passenger freighter 450 1856 to Cuba, foundered 1857
Everglade passenger freighter 406 1856 CSS Savannah, Oconee 1863, foundered 1863
7717 Dawn passenger freighter 399 1857 to USN 1861, Eutaw 1865
Independence Capt. Ezra Nye passenger freighter 354 1857 to Valparaiso, foundered 1859
Built by Sneeden & Rowland
22818 Daylight passenger freighter 682 1859 to USN 1861, USS Santee 1865, barge 1886
16761 Mount Vernon passenger freighter 625 1859 to USN 1861, foundered 1869
R. R. Cuyler NY-Havana SS passenger freighter 1,202 1859 to USN 1861, wrecked 1867
13452 John Brooks Naugatuck TC steamer 780 1859 broken-up about 1897
Built by Continental Iron Works
1468 Alabama I. L. Day and Others steamboat 510 1859 abandoned 1892
Flushing Flushing Steam ferry ferry 333 1859 sold foreign 1863
4631 Continental New Haven SB Co steamer 1,139 1861 abandoned 1902
Primero Pesant Bros. and Co. steamer 331 1861 sunk 1862
5270 City of Boston Norwich & NY TC steamer 1,497 1861 scrapped 1896
5271 City of New York Norwich & NY TC steamer 1,497 1862 burned 1866
Monitor US Navy ironclad 987 25 Feb 1862 foundered off Cape Hatteras 1862
Catskill US Navy ironclad 1,875 24 Feb 1863 sold 1802
Montauk US Navy ironclad 1,875 14 Dec 1862 sold 1804
Passaic US Navy ironclad 1,875 25 Nov 1862 sold 1899
Sangamon US Navy ironclad 1,875 1863 sold 1905
Onondaga US Navy ironclad 2,592 24 Mar 1864 sold to France 1867
Muscoota US Navy gunboat 1,370 5 Jan 1865 sold 1869 as Tennessee, burned 1870
Puritan US Navy ironclad 4,912 5 Jan 1866 sold 1922
Cohoes US Navy ironclad 1,175 19 Jan 1866 scrapped 1874
Nuevo Cubano steamer 42 1866 foundered 1866
James Fisk, Jr. Erie RR Co. ferry 755 1869 later Passaic, Broadway 1910, deleted 1918
Fulton Union Ferry Co. ferry 647 1871 retired 1917
Farragut Union Ferry Co. ferry 647 1871 retired 1914
Atlantic Union Ferry Co. ferry 930 1885 scrapped 1938
Brooklyn Union Ferry Co. ferry 930 1885 later Irvington 1928, scrapped 1935
General Hudson River SB Co. passenger 332 1889 scrapped 1934
Monadnock US Navy ironclad 3,990 1874 hull built KD and shipped to Vallejo CA for assembly and outfitting: not completed until 1896

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