Eckford Webb

Greenpoint NY

Eckford Webb was William H. Webb's brother, named by their father, Isaac Webb, for the great shipbuilder, Henry Eckford. Together with George Collyer, he started the first shipyard in Greenpoint in 1850, at the foot of Green Street. Collyer moved on the next year, however, leaving Webb in sole control until 1856, when he teamed up with George W. Bell, changed the name of the business to Webb & Bell and moved the yard to the foot of Milton Street. The table below is clearly incomplete.

O/N Name Customer Type Tons LOA Built Notes
Built by Collyer & Webb
Honda 1851
Built by Eckford Webb
2306 Eagle Union Ferry Co. ferry 392 125 1852 later Baltimore, lost 1884
1819 Abbie Union Ferry Co. ferry 299 120 1852 abandoned 1884
14938 Lydia Union Ferry Co. ferry 299 135 1852 abandoned 1872
Agnes Union Ferry Co. ferry 299 135 1852 burned 1862
Ellen Union Ferry Co. ferry 341 125 1852 to USA 1861
Louise Union Ferry Co. ferry 341 125 1852 abandoned 1866
16304 Metropolis Union Ferry Co. ferry 433 130 1852 converted to barge 1875
18279 New York Hudson River RR ferry 642 161 1853 converted to barge 1917
Leviathan Spofford, Tileston & Co tugboat 537 1853 burned 1856 at Sandy Hook NJ
Sting Ray Wakeman & Dimon clipper ship 985 1854
Built by Webb & Bell
Kingston & Rhinebeck Ferry Co. ferry 200
Trumpeter steamer 170
Port of Rio de Janeiro ferry 300
Brazil ferry 350
Brazil ferry 350
Joseph Jewitt J. & N. Smith & Co. brig 350
Isaac Webb No. 8 NY & Sandy Hook Pilots pilot boat 100
brig 375
Primeira Thomas Raney 350 1860 foundered 1863
Chippewa US Navy gunboat 691 158 1861 sold 1865
865 America Union Ferry Co. ferry 552 153 1862 abandoned 1903
25076 Union Union Ferry Co. ferry 546 153 1862 burned 1929 in Port Richmond NY
11456 Hamilton Union Ferry Co. ferry 584 153 1863 abandoned 1918
21439 Republic Union Ferry Co. ferry 539 146 1863 abandoned 1918
11457 Henry Burden P. A. Burden & Co. steamer 280 1862 to USA 1883
Monterey Pacific Mail SS Co. propeller 1,160 210 1865
Mariposa Pacific Mail SS Co. propeller 1,160 210 1865
80056 Winona Union Ferry Co. ferry 650 155 1868 to USA 1917 as Gen George E. Pond, sold 1922 as Winona, deleted 1925

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