Hillman Ship & Engine Building

Philadelphia PA

Hillman & Streaker was established in the 1840s and merged with Birely & Sons in 1866. Charles Hillman and his sons bought out Birely and Streaker in 1888 and changed the name to Hillman Ship & Engine Building. A Navy contract bankrupted them in 1899 and the property was acquired by Cramp. The yard was located at the foot of Montgomery Avenue, in Kensington, just downstream from Cramp's yard.

You can still see the layout of the yard
O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
Built by Hillman & Streaker
Parker Vein freighter 460 1853 Atlanta 1857, to USN 1858 as Sumter
Itasca US Navy gunboat 691 1861
Rattlesnake Shoal (LV 30) U.S. Lighthouse Service lightship 232 1863 sold 1872
Pontiac US Navy gunboat 1,173 1864 sold 1867
Built by John Birely, Jacob Birely and/or Birely & Lynn
17009 Mount Vernon passenger freighter 500 1846 to USN 1861 as Mount Washington, abandoned 1880
26157 Western Port passenger freighter 453 1853 to USN 1859 as Wyandotte, sold 1865, stranded 1866 off Duxbury
9435 Phineas Sprague passenger freighter 938 1857 to USN 1861 as Flag, sold 1865, abandoned 1876
Sciota US Navy gunboat 691 1861
Built by Birely, Hillman & Streaker
Relief U.S. Revenue Service cutter 120 1867
rescue U.S. Revenue Service cutter 120 1867 sold 1874
St. Michel Govt. of Haiti gunboat 1875
1804 Govt. of Haiti gunboat 1875
Lucy P. Miller J. M. Miller et al freighter 533 1878 wrecked off Petit Manan 1893
Santo Domingo T. Clyde freighter 1,880 1878 later Yemassee 1987, barge 1907
Habanero Michelena & Galbany freighter 498 1879 later Triton 1888, wrecked between Dominica & Mariel 1897
Wanderer J. W. Black & others freighter 531 1879 later Atlantic 1900, barge 1906
Delaware W. P. Clyde & Co freighter 1,646 1880 burned & sank off NJ 1898
City of Richmond Virginia Steamboat Co passenger 1,001 1880 later Wm. C. Egerton 1892, Glen Island 1997, burned off Matinicock Point, Long Island Sound 1904
Goldsboro' W. P. Clyde & Co freighter 681 1882 wrecked on Brandywine Shoal 1912
Built by Hillman Ship & Engine Building
Maracaibo Atlantic & Caribbean SN Co passenger freighter 1,262 1889 wrecked 1898
Pawnee Clyde & Co freighter 1,801 1890 burned 1899
86151 Gay Head New Bedford etc SS Co passenger 701 1891 later Pastime 1925, scrapped 1931
107008 Anthony Groves, Jr. Balto & Phila SN Co passenger 605 1893 later Tarco #1 1937, scrapped 1947
81437 William E. Doron 171 1893
3602 Bristol 48 1893
John Reese 57 1894
150710 Paoli Staples Coal Co tugboat 330 1895 scrapped 1934
136531 Endeavor Denny Bros. passenger 315 1896 burned 1924
Winthrop Staples Coal Co tugboat 352 1896 to USN 1898 as Osceola, AT-47 1920, Winthrop 1924, foundered 1947
111443 Radiant 89 1896
116755 St. Louis Pennsylvania RR Co ferry 1,273 1896 scrapped 1944
86383 G. F. Brady 182 1897
150768 Pencoyd 119 1897
130757 New Brunswick Pennsylvania RR Co ferry 1,273 1898 scrapped 1951
Gypsum King J. B. King Transportation tugboat 581 1898 later Slocum 1898, scrapped 1946
353 136692 Eureka Staples Coal Co tugboat 353 1898 scrapped 1950
127289 Concord Staples Coal Co tugboat 353 1898 to USN 1920 as Mendota (YT-33), Muscotah 1932, scrapped 1937
81632 Waltham Staples Coal Co tugboat 299 1898 later Dauntless No. 10 1934, Wathen 1946, Sally R 1953
National 157 1898
145805 Tacony Staples Coal Co tugboat 353 1898 later F. H. Chappell 1921, scrapped 1940
Margaret dredge 338 1899
130809 Nellie M. Gazzam 37 1899
Mackenzie (TB 17) US Navy torpedo boat 65 1899 sunk as target 1916

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