John H. Dialogue & Son

Camden NJ

Most recent update: May 18, 2016.

John H. Dialogue was a machinist, who started in business repairing engines for locomotives and steamships. He bought the Elias Kaighn foundry in 1854 and became one of the few licensees of Corliss stationary steam engines. In 1862 he and some partners founded National Iron Armor & Shipbuilding Co., but this was not successful. He then worked as a subcontractor before restarting his own business in 1870 as River Iron Works. His partner died in 1874 and in 1890, he changed the name to John H. Dialogue & Son. The company went bankrupt in 1913 and the 34-acre site at Kaighn's Point was sold for other uses. See the site from the air on Google here: the shipyard is gone but you can still see the side-launch ways.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Delivered Notes
1-152 1-152 presumed to be contracts for engines
Built by Wilcox & Whitney
153 4992 Thomas A. P. Champlin tugboat 24 1862
154 15080 Lookout W. P. Clyde tugboat 35 1862 retired 2001
Built by National Iron Armor & Shipbuilding
155 Edwin Ludlow tugboat 49 1863
156 Wyoming 799 1863 rebuilt as barge 1887
158 Uno Solomon Thomas tugboat 79 1864 to USN as Juniper 1864, to USLHB as Peter G. Washington 1865
159 J. W. Everman 692 1865 converted to barge 1887
160 Douglass 49 1866 lost 1898
Built by River Iron Works
161 Lillie Summers American Dredge tugboat 50 1870 Comet 1884
162 Iris U.S. Lighthouse Service tender 1871 sold 1899
163 Schuyler Colfax U.S. Revenue Service cutter 369 1871
164 105105 Aroma Mills Browning Brothers tugboat 85 1872
165 110036 Reba tugboat 36 1872 J. H. Petersen 1906
166 Major tugboat 1872 later Oceanic, Peter Cahill
167 Ferdinand R. Hassler U.S. C. & G. S. survey vessel 319 1872 later Clara Nevada, lost in Alaska 1898
168 Frank G. Fowler 49 1872
169 Agnes passenger 448 1872 barge Israel W. Dunham 1898
170 Charles A Warren tugboat 41 1873
171 Amanda Powell tugboat 38 1873
172 Anna J. Kipp Leonard Kipp tugboat 43 1873
173 Samuel Gedney tugboat 49 1873
174 City Ice Boat No. 3 City of Philadelphia icebreaker 637 1874
175 Rebecca tugboat 39 1874
176 2910 Bachelor tugboat 26 1874
177 Diamond passenger 12 1874
178 85326 George W. Childs tugboat 98 1874
179 15969 Lightning tugboat 48 1874
180 Spring Garden tugboat 23 1874
181 150021 Pennsylvania tugboat 91 1874
182 Stella tugboat 39 1874
183 William. F. Havemeyer City of Philadelphia fireboat 111 1875
184 Ceres passenger 52 1875
185 105485 Altoona tugboat 64 1875 Senator Penrose 1918
186 General J. S. Schultze ferry 536 1875 tank barge Schuylkill 1910
187 75798 John W. Thompson passenger 497 1875 Harry Randall 1893, Capital City 1910
188 Evona tugboat 15 1875
189 White Water passenger 61 1875 to USACE 1911
190 95443 Hercules James A. Wright tugboat 119 111 1876
191 130057 North America Insurance Co. of N. America tugboat 290 1876
192 105603 Argonauta tugboat 71 1876 to USAQMD 1899
193 75872 Juno passenger 63 1876
194 Shackamaxon passenger 383 1877
195 135317 E. E. Simpson passenger 171 1877
196 95532 Hercules David Tillson tugboat 77 1878 Victoria 1884
197 Brazil McKay, Scott & Co. tugboat 123 1878
198 76042 Jennie Wilson Pilots Assoc. of N. O. pilot boat 78 1878 first iron pilot boat
199 76024 Juno 84 1878
200 Inca tugboat 103 1879 to USN 1918 as ID-3219
201 130162 Nellie tugboat 61 1879
202 150185 Pallas tugboat 33 1879 Christiana Baird 1884
203 Phoenix tugboat 95 1879
204 Italian J. D. Dailey tugboat 58 1879 to USAQMD as Reynolds 1898, J. C. Watson 1906
205 14374 Kate Jones tugboat 123 1879 to USN as Seminole 1898, to USAQMD as General Ayres, Kate Jones 1906
206 Josiah W. Cloud tugboat 18 1879 Raymond 1906
208 Hercules tugboat 156 1880
209 140427 Louise tugboat 105 1880
210 115744 Stella tugboat 80 1880
211 John M Woodworth Marine Hospital Service hospital 88 1880
212 135496 Edwin D. Hartley tugboat 60 1881 Harford 1905, Elise Ann Conners, in North River Tugboat Museum
213 Gladisfen tugboat 67 1881 Mercedes 1888
214 25239 Underwriter Pilots Assoc. of N. O. pilot boat 171 1881 to USN 1918 as ID-1390, Adirondack (YT-44) 1920, sold 1922
215 115791 Samson Port of New Orleans passenger 160 1881
216 100293 Iris passenger 66 1881
217 Ranger American Salt Co freighter 273 1881 Parole 1887, Presidente Carazo 1890, wrecked on Colorado Bar 1896
218 207767 Samuel G. King fireboat 63 1881
219 105991 Anna tugboat 75 1881 Reliance 1893
220 115780 S. J. Lennox tugboat 78 1881 Viking 1893
222 Mexico Sofia Cia. Mexicana de. Nav. tugboat 49 1882
223 Benito Estenger Gallego, Messa & Co. freighter 371 1882 deleted 1920
224 106090 Arctic tugboat 33 1882
225 14407 Kensington tugboat 34 1882 Bauerline 1918
226 Argus Jas. A Wright tugboat 171 1882
227 95727 Hercules tugboat 70 77 1882 to USN as Chickasaw 1898, sold as Ross Reichert 1913; Harry R. Wheeler 1918, Peggy Sheridan 1943, Mae R. Mathiasen 1947, scrapped 1954
228 150255 Protector tugboat 99 1882 to USN 1918 as SP-1242 but not used
229 135624 Emma Kate Ross Ross & Sanford tugboat 127 1882 to USN 1918 as SP-2844, Russell 5 1941, Essex 1941, Helen M. Mathiasen 1948
230 126028 Cecilia passenger 98 1882
231 91423 Mary Wittich tugboat 127 1882
234 135641 Echo tugboat 136 1883
235 Gladisfen Mrs. M.A. Meyer tugboat 118 1883
236 100323 Ira M. Hedges Washburn SB Co. tugboat 76 1883
237 135671 Edwin Terry Washburn SB Co. tugboat 91 1883
238 135727 Elmer E. Wood tugboat 112 1883 Mongah 1910, Robert H. Lockwood 1936
241 Mexico American Augusto Mexican Central RR tugboat 135 1885 to Venezuela as Augusto, to Mexico 1896 as Tampico
256 126219 Charles H Fox tugboat 41 1884 Walter E. Sutton 1884
257 Governor Safford Gulf Steamboat Co. passenger 307 1884 Philip J. Kenny 1920, burned 1923 near Ambrose LS
258 126184 Corsair tugboat 95 1884
259 Sea Lion Merchants & Shipowners tugboat 186 1884
264 Madrono U.S. Lighthouse Service tender 412 1885 to USAT as Col. Charles L. Willard 1941
265 126309 Chicago tugboat 89 1885
267 110691 rescue tugboat 75 1886
269 126349 Chauncey M. Depew tugboat 77 1886 NY Central No. 10, J. C. Reichart 1918
270 126401 C. C. Clarke tugboat 150 1886 NY Central No. 3, A. W. Whitman, Susan Elizabeth, scrapped 2008
275 A. H. Whiteman George W. Whiteman tugboat 158 1886 Charles Clarke, N. H. De Bardeleben 1941, Shamrock 1962
271 154377 Peerless tugboat 90 1886 Edmund J. Moran 1918
Ybero freighter 300 1886 foundered 1907
275 155151 Oakland NY Central & H RR tugboat 103 1887 NY Central No. 13, Hay-de, Pier 63 Maritime Museum
276 100415 Interstate NY Central & H RR tugboat 103 1887 NY Central No. 12
277 135958 W. S. Williams Lamberts Point Towing tugboat 136 1887 E. V. McCaulley
278 76664 James McCaulley James McCaulley tugboat 92 1887 Arabian 1918
279 91969 Mercer Pennsylvania RR tugboat 150 1887 St. Lawrence 1936
281 95943 Hercules P. Wright & Son tugboat 142 101 1888 to USN 1898, designated YT-13 1920, sold 1937
283 150454 Pocahontas tugboat 94 1888
284 157205 Dandy passenger 115 1888
286 Assistance Henderson Brothers tugboat 100 1888 T. F. Richardson, W. H. Williams 1918
287 157229 Douglas H. Thomas Dougherty & Co. tugboat 140 1888 to USN 1889 as Triton (YT-10), ID-3312 1918, sold 1930 as Melrose, J. Rich Steers 1945, Gwendoline Steers 1951, sank in LI Sound 1962
292 81249 Western Union Western Union Co. cable layer 185 1889
293 81217 William P. Congdon Savannah Lighterage tugboat 69 1889 later Chesapeake, sank 1995
296 141021 L. Luckenbach Luckenbach Towing tugboat 255 1889 Defiance 1905, to USN 1918 as SP-1015, Challenge, (AT-59) 1920, YT-126, YTM-126, to MARAD 1946
Built by John H. Dialogue & Son
297 130500 N. and W. 1 Norfolk & Western Railway tugboat 311 1890 Murrell 1906, scrapped 1949
298 130512 N. and W. 2 Norfolk & Western Railway tugboat 311 1890 Boswell 1905, scrapped 1963
299 92153 Mars P. F. Martin & Co. tugboat 278 1890 to USAT as ST-56
300 Armeria U.S. Lighthouse Service tender 1052 1890
301 126647 Carbonero Export Coal Co. tugboat 361 July 1890 Daniel Williard 1905, Gypsum Queen 1917, to USN 1917 as SP-430, lost off Brest 1919
303 Farniente passenger 12 1891
304 96136 H. M. C. Smith Merchants Mutual Line tugboat 98 1891 Jack Scully 1918, to USN 1918 as ID-2289 but not used
305 136168 Enterprise American Towing Co. tugboat 214 1890 USN Modoc 1898, YTL-16, Flo
306 136173 Edgar F. Luckenbach Luckenbach Towing tugboat 273 May 1891 Luckenbach No.2, Cherokee, to USN 1918 as SP-458, foundered off NJ 1918
307 106804 Asher J. Hudson Hudson Transportation tugboat 136 1891 to USN 1918 as SP-3104, Yuma (YT-37), sold 1921 as Marathon
308 110948 Regis Savannah Lighterage Psgr/Tow 92 1891
309 81348 West Jersey ferry 13 1891 Millville 1906
310 81456 Walter A. Luckenbach Luckenbach Towing tugboat 283 Sep 1893 to USN 1898 as Uncas (AT-51), YT-110, struck 1922, Joseph D. Wood, Henry W. Card, Relief
311 157368 Dauntless C. W. Wisbee tugboat 153 1893 later C. H. Hix, Restless 1944
312 Hudson U.S. Revenue Service cutter 174 1893 sold 1942
313 110960 Robert S Bradley Bradley Fertilizer tugboat 121 1892
314 116500 Scranton Del., Lack. & Western RR tugboat 300 1892 Clincher 1916, scrapped 1926
315 General Meigs US Army QMD passenger 292d 1892
316 126826 C. N. Kimpland William E. Beard & Co. tugboat 132 1892 Susan N Moran 1898, Diamond 8, Natalie, Marion Olsen
324 3588 Beronda yacht 17 1893
325 Delta Mr. E. Lee passenger freighter 466 1893
326 96227 Hortense tugboat 129 1893 to USN 1893 as Takoma, Sebago (YT-23), scrapped 1937
330 130672 Nottingham Central RR of New Jersey tugboat 408 July 1894 burned and scrapped 1947
331 157403 Dorothy Annan tugboat 99 1894 Geo. D. Kuper, Bulley 1906
332 81493 William F. McCauley Atlantic Towing tugboat 149 1894 to USN 1918 as ID-2360, returned 1918, Captain Collier
333 Rosita tugboat 84 1895
334 Tybee U.S. Revenue Service cutter 28 1895 sold 1930
335 Lamont US Army USACE tugboat 206 1895 sold 1936, John Roen 1944, Samuel E. Bool, Georgia 1972
336 136512 Esther tugboat 27 1895
337 Scout US Army USACE tugboat 150 1896
338 136548 Edward Luckenbach Luckenbach Towing tugboat 149 1896 to USN 1917 as Tecumseh (YT-24), YTM-24, returned 1946
340 Princeton (PG-13) US Navy gunboat 1010 1898 sold 1919
341 130792 Navigator J. Needham tugboat 414 1898 to USN 1918 as ID-2225, YT-39, sold 1946
342 111172 Robert A. Van Wyck New York Fire Dept. fireboat 203 1898 William L Strong 1902, retired 1948
344 100656 Isis International Elevating Co. Elevator 591 June 1898
345 145781 Themis International Elevating Co. Elevator 591 June 1898
350 130759 New England New England Fish Co. fishing boat 230 Dec 1897
355 136772 Echo Scully Towing & Tptn Co. tugboat 413 Dec 1898 John Scully 1903, H. C. Cadmus 1919, to USAT as LT-332 1942, George W. Whiteman 1947, deleted 1954
357 136675 Eugene Grasseli Grasselli Chemical Co. freighter 157 1898 to USQMD as Poe 1898
358 92911 M. E. Luckenbach Edgar F. Lukenbach tugboat 439 Dec 1898 Luckenbach No.1, Barnegat, to USN 1918 as SP-1232, G. E. Roper 1923, abandoned 1935
Dauntless No. 7 Dauntless Towing tugboat 157 1898 later John A. Dorgan
361 Despatch passenger 21 1899
362 136724 E. L. Russell Gulf Refining Co. 1916 passenger 206 1899
363 77354 Jacob Dykman tugboat 145 1899 S. O. No. 4 1906, Port Covington 1916
364 136743 Eugene Grasseli Grasselli Chemical Co. freighter 157 July 1899
365 127365 Charles Clarke Texas Oil & Transit Co passenger 211 Aug 1899
368 141675 Lackawanna Del., Lack.a & Western RR tugboat 340 1900 collision and lost 1915
369 81693 Wm. J. Bradley tugboat 81 1900
370 107539 Abram Minis N.Y., Phila. & Norfolk R.R. passenger 284 May 1900 S. T. Morgan 1910, Salisbury
371 150885 Prudence James McWilliams tugboat 292 Dec 1919 later Lawrence H. Shaw
372 Astral Standard Oil Co. tugboat 616 Nov 1903 later Standard II
373 96555 Helen Charles Gring tugboat 113 1901
374 150921 Patience Reading Co. tugboat 292 Nov 1901
375 200471 Lewis Luckenbach Luckenbach Steamship freighter 3906 Nov 1903 torpedoed and lost 1917
376 Providence Sailing Vsl 1651 1902
377 130958 Newcastle Chas. E. Davis tugboat 110 1902
378 77542 John A. Hughes Asa Hughes Sons & others tugboat 157 Aug 1902
379 201528 Lenape H. P. Dilkes tugboat 637 Nov 1904 E. E. Johnson 1946, Good News 1961, Trident Star 1966, scrapped 1970
380 117224 S. O. Company No. 12 Standard Tptn Co. tugboat 158 Feb 1903 later S.T. Co. No. 12
381 141847 L. Y. Schermerhorn American Dredging Co. tugboat 174 Mar 1903
382 3949 Bryn Mawr Chas. E. Davis Jr tugboat 74 Apr 1903 engine and boiler only
383 93378 Montclair D L & W R R tugboat 130 May 1903
384 155466 Orange D L & W R R tugboat 130 June 1903
385 200557 John F. Lewis Chesapeake Co. tugboat 160 1904
388 201458 Blue Bell tugboat 179 1904 Virginian 1910
389 201104 Edgar F. Coney South Atlantic towboat tugboat 153 July 1904 to USN 1918 as SP-346. returned 1919
390 201359 Columbia Baker-Whiteley Coal Co. tugboat 212 1904 Ionian 1916, LT-799, WWII
391 Lieut. Ord US Army QMD launch 22 1905 later Lieut. Augustine
392 Capt. Hartshorne US Army QMD launch 22 1905
393 Capt. Connell US Army QMD launch 22 1905
394 201823 Jack Twohy tugboat 171 1905 to Panama Canal Commission as Bohio
395 203236 M. E. Scully Scully Transportation tugboat 272 1906 to Panama Canal Commission as Reliance
396 Lieut. Bumpus US Army QMD launch 22 1905
397 Cerberus US Army USACE tugboat 206 July 1905 Maurice R Shaw 1933
398 202702 Annie L. Vansciver Phila, Rancocas & Mt Holley Tptn Co. passenger 194 1905
399 ? Macadam tugboat 150 1906
400 ? Concrete tugboat 150 1906
400 203367 Newburgh NY Trap Rock Co. tugboat 234 1906 to Panama Canal Commission as Mariner
401 203366 Haverstraw NY Trap Rock Co. tugboat 234 1906 Aurora 1910, to USN 1917 as SP-345, returned 1919
403 203365 Florence passenger 20 1906
404 164433 Managua barge 177 1906
405 164432 Masaya barge 177 1906
406 203766 Pocomoke NY, Phila. & Norfolk RR tugboat 293 1906 to USN 1917 as SP-2265 but not used
409 Blanca 1906
410 202890 James N. Knipe American Dredging Co. tugboat 109 1906
411 204384 Patchogue Long Island R R Co. tugboat 190 1907
412 204179 E. G. Reynolds E.G. Reynolds et al tugboat 192 1907 to Panama Canal Commission as La Boca
414 204267 Ariosa Henry Dubois Sons tugboat 262 June 1907 later Brian McAllister
415 203414 U. T. & L. Co. No. 1 United Transportation tank barge 138 1906
416 203457 U. T. & L. Co. No. 2 United Transportation tank barge 138 1906
421 204801 Hercules Shipowners & Merchants Towing Co tugboat 414 135 Dec 1907 later at the San Francisco Maritime Museum
422 204800 Goliath Shipowners & Merchants Towing Co tugboat 414 135 Dec 1907 to USN 1917 as SP-1494, sold 1921, scrapped 1952
423 204974 Ontario New York, Ontario & Western Ry.Co. tugboat 415 May 1908 scrapped 1948
424 204975 Western New York, Ontario & Western Ry.Co. tugboat 415 May 1908 wrecked off Shelburne NS 1926
425 206311 Sarah E. McWilliams C. J. McWilliams tugboat 294 July 1908 later Resolute 1916
426 206638 J. W. Thompson J-W Thompson tugboat 186 1909
429 206818 Parksley Pennsylvania RR tugboat 296 1909
431 207063 La Criada United Fruit Co tugboat 185 1909
433 207774 New York Central No. 27 New York Central RR tugboat 231 1910
434 207392 Cape Charles Pennsylvania RR Co. tugboat 296 1910
435 208158 Rancocas Hainseport Mining & Transportation tugboat 106 1910
438 208398 The Barnett Jacksonville Towing & Wrecking Co. tugboat 194 1910 to USN 1917 as SP-1149, YT-29, sold 1936 as Richard Simmons, Raymond Card 1941, scrapped 1948
442 208565 La Belle Alexander Winton yacht 165 1911 later Marold II
443 Engineer US Army USACE tugboat 152 1911 to Panama Canal Commission 1916
444 208659 Greenwich Pennsylvania RR Co. tugboat 88 1911
445 208809 Vim freighter 14 1911
450 210107 John J. Howlett tugboat 66 1912
451 209518 Caspian P. F. Martin tugboat 125 1912 to USN 1917 as ID-1380 but not used, Trojan 1948, Cherokee, Denise E 1993
452 210643 M. Moran Moran Towing tugboat 256 Oct 1912 later Foremost, HS 42, M. Moran 1936
453 210901 Thomas J. Scully Edward F. Luckenbach tugboat 405 Feb 1913 Luckenbach No. 4 1916, Nahant 1917, to USN 1917 as SP-1250, Service No. 3 1920, sold as John F. Harlan 1929, Gotham 1935, W. E. Hunt 1942, Good Fortune 1961, scrapped 1963
455 210488 Willard U. Taylor 244 1913
456 211597 Senator Bailey Gulf Refining Co. tugboat 293 July 1913
457 211444 S. M. Goucher tugboat 58 1913
458 165108 Fifty-Eight The Texas Steamship Co. barge 433 1913
459 165221 Fifty-Nine The Texas Steamship Co. barge 398 Mar 1913
460 165346 Sixty The Texas Steamship Co. barge 433 1913
461 211727 North American The Texas Steamship Co. tugboat 134 1913 later M. W. Storms

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