Lawrence and Foulks
Williamsburg and Greenpoint NY
Most recent update: May 24, 2016.
Herbert Lawrence and Thomas Foulks started this yard in 1852. Lawrence was the son of the Lawrence of an earlier shipbuilder, Lawrence & Sneden, while Foulks was a shipbuilder from England, who had already built a few ships under his own name. Initially, their yard was at the foot of Cherry Street, in Manhattan, but they moved it in 1854 to North Fifth Street, in Williamsburg, and again, in 1871, to the foot of Noble Street, in Greenpoint, where they remained until they closed in 1902. The table below is incomplete:
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
Built by Lawrence & Sneden in Manhattan, 1825-1850 | ||||||||
Fanny | steamer | 126 | 1825 | abandoned 1844 | ||||
Napoleon | steamer | 136 | 1830 | abandoned 1856 | ||||
William Seabrook | steamer | 227 | 1831 | captured 1861 | ||||
Frank | steamer | 175 | 1835 | abandoned 1861 | ||||
New Haven | steamer | 342 | 1835 | abandoned 1877 | ||||
Highlander | steamer | 313 | 1835 | abandoned 1864 | ||||
18557 | New York | Union Ferry Co. | ferry | 304 | 1836 | abandoned 1867 | ||
Arrow | steamer | 1837 | ||||||
Neptune | steamer | 745 | 1838 | to USAQMD, stranded 1846 off Tampico | ||||
16109 | Massachusetts | steamer | 308 | 1842 | abandoned 1881 | |||
11476 | Hero | steamer | 462 | 1845 | foundered 1870 | |||
24369 | Thomas Powell | Thomas Powell et al | steamer | 585 | 1846 | abandoned 1887 | ||
Fawn | Sebago & Long Pond S.N. Co. | steamer | 80 | 1846 | built in Bridgton ME | |||
4897 | Connecticut | Curtis Peck | steamer | 1,129 | 1848 | abandoned 1894 | ||
4433 | Canonicus | steamer | 396 | 1849 | to USAQMD 1863, burned 1894 in Port Richmond NY | |||
North America | Cornelius Vanderbilt | steamer | 1,440 | 1851 | stranded 1852 off Las Ramidas, Mexico | |||
Built by William Foulks in Manhattan, 1850-52 | ||||||||
Catharine | steamboat | 65 | 1850 | abandoned 1860 | ||||
Mexican Govt. | schooner | 76 | 1851 | |||||
Mexican Govt. | schooner | 76 | 1851 | |||||
19913 | Peter Crary | Reuben Coffin and others | tugboat | 85 | 1852 | later Hazel Kirke, Naiad, abandoned 1919 | ||
Built by Lawrence & Foulks in Manhattan, 1852-1854 | ||||||||
Staten Island ferry | ferry | 500 | 1852 | |||||
Greenpoint ferry | ferry | 1852 | ||||||
Houston Street ferry | ferry | 1852 | ||||||
Williamsburg ferry | ferry | 1852 | ||||||
Capt. Day | steamship | 1852 | ||||||
13167 | Josephine | Tompkinsville & Stapleton FC | ferry | 552 | 1852 | Henry E. Bishop 1886, lost 1898 | ||
75214 | Joseph Johnson | Parks & Duvall | tugboat | 240 | 1852 | abandoned 1872 | ||
steamer | 1,300+ | 1853 | ||||||
steamer | 1,300 | 1853 | ||||||
steamer | 1,300 | 1853 | ||||||
Peruvian Govt | riverboat | 120 | 1853 | |||||
Peruvian Govt | riverboat | 80 | 1853 | |||||
13157 | J. S. Underhill | tugboat | 123 | 1853 | burned 1878 in Wilmington NC | |||
William H. Brown | steamboat | 450 | 1853 | |||||
U.S. Government | schooner | 34 | 1853 | |||||
Built by Lawrence & Foulks in Williamsburg, 1854-1871 | ||||||||
Houston St. ferry | ferry | 1854 | ||||||
Henry Munsi | A. O. Jackson | tugboat | 150 | 1854 | ||||
Neptune | Peter Crany | steamboat | 160 | 1854 | sold foreign 1860 | |||
Surprise | Edgar Wakeman | steamer | 456 | 1854 | burned 1863 in the Yangtze River | |||
Commonwealth | Norwich & New London SB Co | steamboat | 1,732 | 1855 | destroyed by fire at Groton CT 1865 | |||
E. H. White | Fancher & McChesney | lighter | 100 | 1855 | ||||
Catherine Street-Williamsburg | ferry | 550 | 1855 | |||||
Catherine Street-Williamsburg | ferry | 550 | 1855 | |||||
H. Delafield | Henry Delafield | brig | 250 | 1855 | ||||
Know Nothing | NY & Williamsburgh SBC | tugboat | 300 | 1856 | ||||
Corilla | Johnson & Lowden | bark | 600 | 1856 | ||||
John Faron | steamship | 251 | 1856 | to USAQMD 1863 | ||||
12751 | James A. Stevens | Palmer & Crary | tugboat | 150 | 1856 | abandoned 1891 | ||
Peter Crary | tugboat | 100 | 1857 | |||||
Roy, Coffin & Co | tugboat | 100 | 1857 | |||||
Captain Porter | steamer | 300 | 1857 | |||||
General Concha | Spanish Govt. | steamer | 300 | 1857 | ||||
General Serrano | Spanish Govt. | steamer | 300 | 1857a | ||||
Spanish Govt. | schooner | 150 | 1858 | for dredging Matanzas harbor | ||||
Spanish Govt. | schooner | 150 | 1858 | for dredging Matanzas harbor | ||||
Spanish Govt. | schooner | 150 | 1858 | for dredging Matanzas harbor | ||||
6562 | De Soto | Livingston, Crocheron & Co | passenger freighter | 1,675 | 1859 | to USN 1861, sold 1868, burned 1870 near New Orleans LA | ||
William Foulks | Dallett & Bliss | steamer | 293 | 1859 | sold to Venezuelan Navy, 1860 | |||
tender | 1859 | for the new fort at Sandy Hook | ||||||
Oatey, Squires & Co | tugboat | 1859 | ||||||
ferry | 60 | 1859 | ||||||
2551 | Bienville | Livingston, Crocheron & Co | passenger freighter | 1,558 | 1860 | to USN 1861, sold 1867, burned 1872 in the Bahamas | ||
20132 | Thomas Freeborn | Richard M. Squires | tugboat | 306 | 1860 | to USN 1861, sold 1865 | ||
Flambeau | Forbes & Co. | steamer | 791 | 1861 | to USN 1861, sold 1865, wrecked 1867 at New Inlet NC | |||
Isaac Smith | Hamilton & Smith | passenger freighter | 453 | 1861 | to USN 1861, captured 1863 and renamed Stono, wrecked 1863 near Fort Moultrie SC | |||
Carey & Co. | propeller | 160 | 1862 | |||||
Carey & Co. | propeller | 160 | 1862 | |||||
Bronder & Borlis | propeller | 160 | 1862 | |||||
D. S. Miller | Hamilton & Smith | propeller | 593 | 1862 | ||||
John S. Williams | B. U. Crary | propeller | 170 | 1862 | Little Orphan 1863, sold foreign 1866 | |||
86521 | James F. Freeborn | Richard Squires | passenger freighter | 335 | 1862 | to USN 1863 as Nansemond, to USCG 1863 as W. H. Crawford, sold 1900 as General J. A. Dumont, burned 1914 at Severn Side MD | ||
Paquette de Maule | G. K. Stevenson & Co | freighter | 400 | 1862 | to USN, captured and scuttled by Spain 1866 | |||
Tah Wah | Govt. of China | 590 | 1862 | assembled in Yankin, China | ||||
13180 | John L. Hasbrouck | Hamilton & Smith | propeller | 710 | 1864 | Marlboro 1900, scrapped 1917 | ||
5664 | Chauncey Vibbard | A. Van Santvoord | steamboat | 1,158 | 1864 | scrapped 1902 | ||
4873 | Clara Clarita | Leonard Jerome | yacht | 231 | 1864 | abandoned 1908 | ||
19201 | Oriflamme | Forbes & Co. | schooner | 1,225 | 1864 | scrapped 1879 | ||
10496 | Gen. J. K. Barnes | Atlantic Coast Mail SS Co | steamer | 1,365 | 1864 | foundered 1878 off Cape Hatteras | ||
11460 | Herman Livingston | Atlantic Coast Mail SS Co | steamer | 1,314 | 1864 | scrapped 1883 | ||
810 | Albemarle | Atlantic Coast Mail SS Co | steamer | 871 | 1865 | barge 1882, schooner 1883, sank in squall 1885 | ||
11477 | Hatteras | Atlantic Coast Mail SS Co | steamer | 868 | 1865 | Schooner barge 1882 | ||
21459 | Raleigh | Atlantic Coast Mail SS Co | steamer | 868 | 1865 | burned 1867 off Charleston SC | ||
21460 | Rapidan | Atlantic Coast Mail SS Co | steamer | 868 | 1865 | disappeared 1886 en route to West Indies | ||
Sze-Chuen | Forbes & Co. | steamer | 1,090 | 1865 | abandoned 1875 | |||
Kiang-Tsze | Forbes & Co. | steamer | 1,100 | 1865 | sold foreign 1877 | |||
Foong-Shuey | Forbes & Co. | steamer | 1,930 | 1865 | later Plymouth Rock, sold foreign 1877 | |||
Shan-Se | Forbes & Co. | steamer | 1,095 | 1865 | sold foreign 1877 | |||
17014 | Manhattan | American & Mexican SS Co | steamer | 1,337 | 1865 | barge 1877, sank 1882 | ||
25660 | Vera Cruz | American & Mexican SS Co | steamer | 1,340 | 1865 | stranded 1866 on Body Island NC | ||
22811 | Sleepy Hollow | Lower Hudson SBC | steamboat | 745 | 1865 | abandoned 1892 | ||
17012 | Maspeth | Nassau Ferry Co. | ferry | 431 | 1866 | Fort Lee 1882, abandoned 1898 | ||
19219 | Oregonian | Oregon SNC | steamship | 2,200 | 1866 | scrapped 1866 | ||
12343 | Isaac Bell | Old Dominion SSC | steamship | 1,500 | 1868 | burned 1880 in Norfolk VA | ||
23768 | Sylvan Glen | Harlem SBC | ferry | 350 | 1869 | scrapped 1915 | ||
Mr. Cheeseborough | yacht | 100 | 1869 | |||||
105094 | Americus | Norwalk Line | steamboat | 600 | 1870 | later Myndert Starin, Newark | ||
James G. Bennett | pilot boat | 1870 | ||||||
Built by Lawrence & Foulks in Greenspoint, 1871-1901 | ||||||||
90288 | Martha's Vineyard | New Bedford & Nantucket SBC | steamboat | 515 | 1871 | Keyport 1913, in collision 1917 and abandoned | ||
tugboat | 1871 | |||||||
9982 | Farragut | Fulton FC | ferry | 648 | 1871 | iron hull by Continental Iron Works | ||
9981 | Fulton | Fulton FC | ferry | 648 | 1871 | iron hull by Continental Iron Works | ||
95131 | Harlem | Morrisania SBC | ferry | 466 | 1872 | |||
90264 | Morrisania | Morrisania SBC | ferry | 420 | 1871 | |||
115840 | Sylvan Dell | Harlem & New York NC | ferry | 440 | 1872 | sank 1919 | ||
90729 | Midland | NY Central RR | ferry | 402 | 1872 | deleted 1910 | ||
6781 | Day Star | American SBC | steamboat | 682 | 1873 | |||
105291 | Amos C. Barstow | steamboat | 268 | 1873 | ||||
Fidelity | Commissioners of Charities | launch | 1873 | collision and sank in East River 1879 | ||||
75537 | Jane Mosely | Long Island RRC | steamer | 800 | 1873 | |||
Jennie Stout | F. Alexander & Son | schooner | 600 | 1873 | sank in storm off Cape Hatteras 1875 | |||
Jessamine | U.S. Revenue Service | cutter | 1873 | |||||
85328 | Governor Andrew | Boston & Hingham SBC | steamer | 503 | 1874 | |||
City of Boston | steamboat | 1875 | Deer Island prisoner transport | |||||
St. John's Guild | steamboat | 1875 | floating hospital | |||||
Crystal Wave | American SBC | steamboat | 700 | 1875 | ||||
120265 | Fanwood | New Jersey Central RR | ferry | 1,300 | 1876 | |||
130176 | Northampton | Old Dominion SS Co | passenger freighter | 483 | 1880 | burned at Norfolk 1898 | ||
Old Dominion SS Co | launch | 1881 | ||||||
196063 | Albertina | Red Bank Line | steamboat | 612 | 1882 | burned 1932 | ||
120586 | F. P. James | NY & Coll. Pt Ferry Co. | ferry | 445 | 1884 | later Bronx 1902, scrapped 1917 | ||
76574 | Jacob H. Tremper | passenger | 571 | 1885 | scrapped 1929 | |||
96029 | Haarlaem | NY & East River Ferry Co | ferry | 382 | 1889 | Harlem 1922, abandoned 1927 | ||
3485 | Bowery Bay | Astoria Ferry Co. | ferry | 382 | 1890 | Bouwery Bay 1922, abandoned 1931 | ||
126866 | Clermont | A. Van Santvoord | yacht | 259 | 1892 |