John Englis & Son
New York Ny and Greenpoint NY
Most recent update: May 22, 2016.
John Englis joined his father's shipbuilding business in 1850, at his yard at the foot of East Tenth Street in Manhattan. They moved to Greenpoint in 1872, to a site at the foot of Greenpoint Avenue, where Transmitter Park is today. Englis' two sons joined him in 1882 and the name was changed to John Englis & Sons, which was primarily a ship repair business. The company closed in 1911, the longest-lived of the great 19th-century yards in New York Harbor, but doesn't seem to have built any new ships after about 1883. The table below is clearly incomplete:
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| Built in Manhattan | ||||||||
| 20151 | Plymouth Rock | steamer | 2,202 | 1854 | abandoned 1887 | |||
| Western World | steamer | 2,202 | 1854 | abandoned 1862 | ||||
| 22822 | St. Louis | steamer | 1,621 | 1854 | abandoned 1878 | |||
| 7140 | Eastern Queen | steamer | 695 | 1857 | foundered 1873 | |||
| Southfield | Staten Island R. T. | ferry | 751 | 1857 | to USN 1861, sunk by CSN 1864 | |||
| 13452 | John Brooks | steamer | 900 | 1859 | abandoned 1896 | |||
| 95074 | Zouave/Cosmopolitan | Sanford Line | steamer | 774 | 1861 | to USAQMD 1864, still in service 1903 | ||
| 18322 | New Brunswick | Portland SPC | steamer | 804 | 1861 | abandoned 1906 | ||
| Unadilla | US Navy | gunboat | 691 | 1861 | sold in Siam 1869 | |||
| 5272 | City of Norwich | Norwich & NY TC | steamer | 890 | 1862 | barge 1894 | ||
| Mary A. Boardman | Aymar & Co. | steamer | 552 | 1862 | stranded 1866 on Romer Shoals | |||
| New England | International SS Co | steamer | 852 | 1862 | stranded 1884 on Grindstone Ledge | |||
| Fire Cracker | Johnson & Co. | steamer | 1,046 | 1862 | foundered 1862 in China | |||
| Ashuelot | US Revenue Service | cutter | 350 | 1863 | sold 1876, foundered 1869 | |||
| 5269 | City of New London | Norwich & NY TC | steamer | 696 | 1863 | burned 1871 in Norwich CT | ||
| 14028 | Katahdin | steamer | 1,234 | 1863 | abandoned 1895 | |||
| Kiukiang | Olyphant & Co. | steamer | 1,025 | 1863 | Also spelled Kien-Kiung | |||
| Fire Flash/Pluto | Lindsley & Co. | steamer | 205 | 1863 | foundered 1863 | |||
| Fire Queen | Aymar & Co. | steamer | 2,039 | 1864 | to China for safety | |||
| 9513 | Forest City | steamer | 869 | 1854 | abandoned 1896 | |||
| Vulcan | Lindsley & Co. | steamer | 390 | 1863 | foundered 1863 | |||
| Suwo-Nada | Everett & Co. | steamer | 1,803 | 1864 | stranded 1872 in China | |||
| Kaing-Loong | Everett & Co. | steamer | 1,098 | |||||
| 6264 | Dean Richmond | steamer | 2,525 | 1865 | abandoned 1909 | |||
| 18221 | Newport | The Fall River Line | steamer | 2,151 | 1865 | converted to barge 1890 | ||
| 19009 | Old Colony | The Fall River Line | steamer | 1,957 | 1865 | abandoned 1897 | ||
| 6609 | Daniel Drew | steamer | 2,902 | 1866 | burned 1886 off Kingston Point | |||
| 22152 | Star of the East | steamer | 1,413 | 1866 | abandoned 1917 | |||
| 5502 | Cambridge | Sanford Line | steamer | 1,337 | 1867 | wrecked off Georges Island, MA, 1886 | ||
| Jay Gould | Erie RR | ferry | 498 | 1868 | Chautauqua 1904, deleted 1911 | |||
| City of Mexico | F. Alexandre & Sons | steamer | 1,026 | 1868 | later S. Pizatti 1886, foundered off Hatteras 1901 | |||
| Olympia | passenger | 932 | 1869 | later Princess Louise 1901, hulked 1908 | ||||
| City of Merida | F. Alexandre & Sons | steamer | 1,492 | 1871 | burned 1884 in Havana | |||
| Built in Greenpoint | ||||||||
| Falmouth | International SS Co | steamer | 1,156 | 1872 | burned in Portland ME 1884 | |||
| 70 | City of Havana | F. Alexandre & Sons | steamer | 1,700 | 1872 | wrecked 1870 off Tuxpan | ||
| 72 | City of New York | F. Alexandre & Sons | steamer | 1,716 | 1873 | burned 1880 in Brooklyn | ||
| 125117 | C. H. Northam | New Haven SB Line | steamer | 1,436 | 1873 | scrapped 1910 | ||
| City of Vera Cruz | F. Alexandre & Sons | passenger freighter | 1,875 | 1874 | foundered off Mosquito Inlet FL 1880 | |||
| Eleanora | Maine SS Co | freighter | 988 | 1874 | barge 1895 | |||
| Gloria | Menendez & Co | freighter | 1,867 | 1874 | burned at Manzanillo, Cuba, 1898 | |||
| City of Atlanta | NY & Charleston SS | passenger freighter | 1,621 | 1875 | burned at New York 1893 and reduced to a barge | |||
| 125522 | City of Troy | Citizens' SB Co | passenger | 1,527 | 1876 | burned at Dobb's Ferry NY 1907 | ||
| 125592 | Columbia | Columbia SN Co | passenger | 1,468 | 1877 | later President 1915, deleted 1927 | ||
| 115539 | Saratoga | Citizens' SB Co | passenger | 1,438 | 1877 | collision 1906 and scrapped | ||
| 85541 | Grand Republic | Columbia SN Co | steamer | 1,760 | 1878 | burned 1924 in New York | ||
| City of Columbus | NY & Charleston SS | passenger freighter | 1,878 | 1880 | foundered off Kauai 1899 | |||
| 135707 | East Side | Greenpoint Ferry Co. | ferry | 547 | 1883 | later Tennessee 1899, scrapped 1912 | ||
| 145336 | Tremont | Portland S.P. Co. | passenger | 1,428 | 1883 | burned alongside pier on East River NY 1904 | ||
| Adirondack | New Jersey SB Co | ferry | 3,644 | 1896 | foundered Athens NY 1925 | |||
| Mo-Tune | Briggs & Co. | steamer | 1,300 | |||||
| Old Republic | steamer | |||||||