John W. Lynn

Philadelphia PA

Most recent update: January 14, 2021.

John W. Lynn (a.1827-1890) originally worked at Vaughan & Lynn, which morphed into Birely & Lynn. That yard was at the foot of Hanover Street (now Columbia Avenue) in Kensington, but with the rise of railroad yards near that site, John Lynn and his father, Robert, broke off in 1861 and opened a new yard on land owned by engine builders Merrick & Sons, at the foot of Reed Street in Southwark, where the Comcast building is now. John Lynn is said to have built thirty ocean steamers during his career, but this figure may include those that he built when he was part of Birely & Lynn. The yard closed in February 1870.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
1431 Wissahickon US Navy gunboat 607 158 1861 sold 1865 as Adele, NLD 1885
22262 Saxon Henry Winsor & Co. passenger 1193 216 1862 converted to barge 1903, lost 1907
13426 John W. Lynn tugboat 44 1862
Stephen Flanagan tugboat 1862
Stephen Flanagan tugboat 1862
tugboat 1862
18337 Norman Henry Winsor & Co. steamer 1191 235 1862 converted to barge 1909
4886 Continental Ocean Steamship Co. steamer 1643 236 1862 lost 1870
214452 Mahoning US Revenue Cutter Service cutter 350 138 1863 later Levi Woodbury 1873, sold 1915 as Laksco, tender for Lake Submarine Co., abandoned 1928
57014 Stephen Flanagan Delaware Bay Pilots pilot boat 108 1863
787 Ashland Metropolitan SS Co passenger 837 196 1863 converted to schooner 1894
22801 Thomas A. Scott 778 241 1863 later Saragosa 1865, lost 1887 (may have been Cramp's Hull 112)
Capt. J. Kirby barge 300tb 1863
Stephen Flanagan barge 325tb 1863
Fuller, Devinney & Co. barge 350tb 1863
80011 Marigold tugboat 115 1863 later USS Marigold, William A. Hennessy, burned 1875
23006 Stag tugboat 30 56 1863 abandoned 1902
n/a America tugboat 387 135 Apr 1964 later USS Periwinkle 1865, USS Polaris 1871, abandoned in Greenland 1872
7291 Emily B. Souder E.A. Souder & Co. 778 203 1864 lost 1878
14542 Liberty Hargous & Co. 1250 232 1864 NLD 1876
Henry Winsor & Co. tugboat 132 1864
10946 George Appold Merchant & Miners 1370 223 1864 lost 1889 (also credited to Geo. Lynn)
22989 Star of the Union E.A. Souder & Co. 1076 218 1865 lost 1868
11408 Henry & Louise Henry Becker brig 376 1865
Neshannock E.A. Souder & Co. 1443 256 1865 later Arauca 1866, lost 1871
21537 Roman Henry Winsor & Co. passenger 1488 240 1866 converted to barge 1887
11533 Henry Cope Harry Virden pilot boat 52 85 1866 NLD 1900
17163 Mary M. Snee schooner 277 106 1867
105504 US Revenue Cutter Service cutter 120 90 1867 sold 1875 as Addie L. Bird
Resolute US Revenue Cutter Service cutter 120 90 1867 sold 1872
21923 Redowa Salter & Livermore brig 485 148 1867
Sea Weed Dr. J.H. Schenck steam yacht 60 1869 may have been built by John W. Knowlton at John Lynn's yard
LV-37 US Lighthouse Service lightship 242 98 1869 foundered 1893

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