Other Pre-WWI Shipbuilders

On The Atlantic Coast North of New York

Most recent update: May 20, 2016.

This table attempts to cover those other shipbuilders on the Atlantic Coast north of New York that were active in the years between the Civil War and World War One.

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Builder Location O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
Connecticut
Gilbert, M. L. Mystic CT Marie Gilbert Gilbert Tptn Co freighter 586 1906 wrecked near Mayport FL 1907
New London Groton CT Fulton submarine tender 1,190 1914 sunk as target 1891
Roach & Sons, John New London CT John L. Lawrence tugboat 150 1877
Thames Marine New London CT Paul Jones Thames Tow Boat Co tugboat 945 1903
Thames Tow boat New London CT Nathan Hale Thames Tow Boat Co freighter 300 1890 to USN 1917 as YT-38, sold 1921
Massachusetts
Curtis, John J. Boston MA Rattlesnake Shoal U.S. Lighthouse Service Light ship 232 1870 LV-38, sold 1892
Cushman, Rufus Boston MA C. W. Thomas McKay & Aldus steamer 254
Hawkes, R. P. Watertown MA Watertown J. E. Cassidy freighter 300 1890 burned Shirley Gut 1892
Kelly, D. D. Boston MA 219095 Jack O'Lantern passenger 1,018 1903 scrapped 1921
Kelly, D. J. East Boston MA Swampscott ferry 482 1882 burned at Peak's Island Slip 1934
Lawrence, J. L. East Boston MA City of Boston Winnisimmet Ferry Co ferry 487 1880 barge 1917
Lockwood Mfg East Boston MA Longfellow passenger freighter 413 1883 foundered off Highland Light 1904
Lockwood Mfg East Boston MA James Wooley tugboat 1899 to USN 1918 as YT-45, struck 1936
Pierce, G. Chelsea MA Nahant Nahant SB Co freighter 398 1878 later General Lincoln 1884, Mayflower 1930, abandoned 1935
Pook Fair Haven, CT Hibiscus freighter 406 1864 later Frances Wright, sunk off NJ 1873
Pook Fair Haven, CT Spirea freighter 406 1864
Reed Bros Fall River MA Sagamore freighter 173 1900
Reed, H. R. Marshfield MA Coos Bay freighter 545 1884 wrecked Ventura CA-1914
Smith & Townsend Boston MA Penobscot passenger 1,414 1882 later Mohawk 1912, missing 1918
Tufts Iron Works Boston MA Little Tom tanker 10 1901
Tufts Iron Works Boston MA Eleanor 17 1903
Tufts Iron Works Boston MA Polo 41 1903
Chelsea MA Palos US Navy tugboat 420 1866 later Admiral 1875, burned 1904
Boston MA Saturn tugboat 125 1911
Maine
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME Henry H. Fiske Adams & Hitchcock 3-masted schooner 1872
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME Kate M. Hilton Adams & Hitchcock 3-masted schooner 1873
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME 8964 Ellen M. Golder schooner 651 1873
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME Stephen Davol schooner 743 1873
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME 135037 Edwin Reed Edwin Reed bark 1,216 1874
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME Oracle I. F. Chapman 3-masted ship 1,570 1876 wrecked 1883 off Chile
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME 130131 Normandy Adams & Hitchcock schooner 542 1878
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME 126024 Carrie A. Norton Gilbert Transportation 3-masted schooner 559 1882 wrecked 1910 off False Cape VA
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME 3279 B. R. Woodside Adams & Hitchcock schooner 485 1883 wrecked 1902
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME 95807 Henry P. Mason Adams & Hitchcock schooner 720 1884
Adams & Hitchcock Bath ME S. P. Hitchcock Isaac F. Chapman schooner 1883
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 200427 Eleanor F. Bartram schooner 1,114 1903 lost in the Atlantic 1926
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 214632 Elizabeth Howard schooner 142 1916
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 215304 Ajax steamer 118 1917
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 215808 Louise Howard schooner 173 1917
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 217065 Priscilla Alden schooner 404 1918
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 218125 Nathaniel P. Doane Doane Towing tugboat 96 1919
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 217947 Clara H. Doane Doane Towing tugboat 96 1919
Adams SB Co. East Boothbay ME 219589 Edithia yacht 176 1920
Atlantic Coast Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 215873 Anna Laura McKenney schooner 1,021 1917
Atlantic Coast Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 216927 Frances L. Taussig schooner 1,080 1918
Atlantic Coast Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 218983 Bradford E. Jones schooner 1,618 1919
Atlantic Coast Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 218920 Mary Bradford Peirce schooner 1,133 1919
Atlantic Coast Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 220313 James W. Howard schooner 1,655 1920
Atlantic Coast Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 220980 Josiah B. Chase schooner 1,661 1921
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 215670 Jessie G. Noyes schooner 1,376 1917
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 216434 Augusta G. Hilton schooner 1,562 1918
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 217434 Ida S. Dow schooner 1,411 1918
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 218562 M. Vivian Pierce schooner 1,511 1919
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 219398 William H. Harriman schooner 1,450 1919
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 220978 Atlantic Coast schooner 1,643 1920
Atlantic Coast Co. Thomaston ME 220542 Elizabeth Freeman schooner 1,665 1920
Ballentine Bros Bangor ME 125251 Charles J. Kershaw steamer 1,323 1874 wrecked on Chocolay Reef 1895
Bangor SB Co. Hampden ME 218876 Katherine May schooner 915 1919
Bangor, Brewer SB Co. Brewer ME 217316 Charles D. Stanford schooner 714 1918
Bangor, Brewer SB Co. Brewer ME 219304 Horace E. Munroe schooner 1,626 1919
Bean, H. M. and R.L. Camden ME George W. Wells schooner 1,337 1900 lost 1913 off North Carolina
Bean, H. M. and R.L. Camden ME G. Charlton Henry schooner 1904
Bean, H. M. and R.L. Camden ME 201667 Margaret Haskell schooner 2,414 1904
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 215501 Blue Peter schooner 1,234 1916
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 214658 Percy R. Pyne 2nd Oneida Nav Corp schooner 1,337 1917 later Cornelius H. Callaghan 1923, wrecked 1924
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 214808 Charlotte A. Maxwell schooner 668 1917
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 215825 Florence B. Phillips schooner 671 1917
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 216979 Edna M. McKnight schooner 1,326 1917
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 216001 Laura A. Barnes schooner 629 1918
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 217624 Charles A. Dean schooner 1,143 1918
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 218625 Helen Barnet Gring schooner 1,226 1919
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 219634 Robert L. Bean schooner 1,335 1920 grounded and lost 1926 on Santa Rosa Island
Bean, R. L. Camden ME 220774 T. N. Barnsdall schooner 1,309 1920
Bicknall, Charles E. Rockland ME 220477 Radium steamer 107 1920
Biddeford SB Co. Biddeford ME 217043 Jere G. Shaw schooner 739 1918
Boston & Penobscot SB South Orrington ME 218205 James E. Coburn schooner 987 1919
Dennysville SY Co. Dennysville ME 218206 Esther K Netherton Shipping steamer 1,001 1919 lost and abandoned 1935
Doyen, P. H. South Portland ME America P. H. Doyen Co steamer 1,205 1914 later Olga 1917, foundered off Zonguldak 1920
Doyen, P. H. South Portland ME Liberty Liberty S.S. Co steamer 1,490 1918 later Eleftheria 1919, scrapped 1925
Doyen, P. H. South Portland ME Bourbancy Gourney et Cie. steamer 1,025 1919 foundered Marseilles 1923
Doyen, P. H. South Portland ME 218624 Ajax P. H. Doyen & Co steamer 356 1919 burned Prout's Neck 1934
Doyen, P. H. South Portland ME Styliani steamer 1,420 1919 burned SSW Lanzarote 1919
Dutch, Josiah Searsport ME 125665 C. D. Bryant bark 929 1878
East Coast Fisheries Portland ME 219992 Medric fishing boat 380 1920
East Coast Ship Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 216546 Ada Cliff schooner 510 1918 later Frederick J. Lovatt
East Coast Ship Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 217521 Marguerite M. Wemyss schooner 582 1919
East Coast Ship Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 218742 James E. Newsom schooner 707 1919
East Coast Ship Co. Boothbay Harbor ME 219791 Mary G. Maynard schooner 735 1920
Ellsworth Foundry Ellsworth ME 217506 Alexis I. duPont motor ship 151 1919
Emery, G. Harrington ME 145118 Tillie Baker Brett, Son & Co bark 654 1876 wrecked on Cardona I. 1913
Fessenden, W. Portland ME Dallas U.S. Revenue Service cutter 179 1874 sold 1908
Frye, Flynn Co. Harrington ME 215883 Lizzie D. Peabody schooner 129 1919
Frye, Flynn Co. Harrington ME 215893 Lucy Evelyn schooner 374 1919
Frye, Flynn Co. Harrington ME 217315 Sally Persis Noyes schooner 1,034 1919
Frye, Flynn Co. Harrington ME 218955 Doris Hamlin schooner 1,063 1919
Frye, Flynn Co. Harrington ME 219217 Velma L. Hamlin schooner 1,091 1919
Frye, Flynn Co. Harrington ME 220881 Mabel A. Frye schooner 1,151 1920
Fuller, Jacob Boothbay ME 105318 Abel W. Parker schooner 202 1873
Gilchrist, George A. Belfast ME 145845 Theoline schooner 586 1900 later Lakewood
Gilchrist, George A. Belfast ME 96580 Henry B. Fiske schooner 847 1901
Gilchrist, George A. Belfast ME Cumberland USACE dredge 1,451d 1902
Gilchrist, George A. Belfast ME Frank Barnet schooner 853 1903 burned at sea 1908
Gilchrist, George A. Belfast ME Key West USACE dredge 498d 1904 burned 1923 in Tampico MX
Gilchrist, George A. Thomaston ME 215129 Nancy Hanks schooner 1,162 1917
Gilchrist, George A. Thomaston ME 217543 Utoka USSB steamer 2,599 1919
Grant, Isaac Ellsworth ME 23906 Storm Petrel schooner 174 1870
Grant, Isaac Ellsworth ME 18758 Nellie Grant schooner 139 1873 lost off Cape Cod 1925
Griffiths Kittery ME Enterprise US Navy gunboat 1,375 1877
Hitchcock & Co. Bath ME New Era 3-masted schooner 1,328 1854 Ran aground 1854 on Deal Beach NJ
Hagen, Thomas E. Bath ME 203729 Mary E William A. Dunn schooner 16 1907 converted to dragger, at the Connecticut River Museum
Hathorn, J. A. Bath ME J. A. Thomson 3-masted ship 379 1869 later Margaretha, Greta, sunk by u-boat 1916 off Hirshels
Hathorn, J. A. Bath ME 85344 Gatherer W. A. Rust bark 1,509 1874
Hawley, James W. Bath ME 201935 Camilla May Page E. M. Baird 4-masted schooner 688 1905
Hunt, Reuben S. Bath ME 106825 Annie and Reuben John L. Goss Corp. schooner 128 1891 wrecked 1943 off Cuba
Hunt, Reuben S. Bath ME 126859 Charles A. Hunt schooner 122 1892
Hutchins & Stubbs Yarmouth ME 91570 Mattie J. Alles schooner 229 1883
Job SB Machias ME 222065 Leoona & Marion schooner 313 1920
Job SB Machias ME 219823 Spindrift schooner 720 1920
Matthews Bros. Belfast ME 217636 Jennie Flood Kreger Crowell & Thurlow schooner 1,838 1919 burned 1932 in East Boston MA
McKay & Dix Bucksport ME Roosevelt Peary Arctic Club research 614 1905 wrecked Panama Canal entrance 1939
Morse's Bath ME B. W. Morse Knickerbocker Towing tugboat 432 1887 wrecked 1894
Morse's Bath ME H. F. Morse B. W. & H. F. Morse tugboat 488 1888 wrecked Harding's Ledge 1889
Morse's Bath ME 126574 C. W. Morse Morse Tptn Co tugboat 529 1889 missing 1916 in the Atlantic
Morton, D. Bath ME Actie Chr. Halvorsen 3-masted Bark 562 1889 sunk by u-boat 1915 off Lindesnaes
Moses, William V. Bath ME Franconia 3-masted ship 1.462 1874 wrecked 1881 on Farallon Island
New Castle SB New Castle ME 218112 Virginia Dare schooner 1,569 1919
New Castle SB New Castle ME 219619 Dolly Madison schooner 1,540 1920
New Castle SB New Castle ME 220894 Mary H. Diebold schooner 1,516 1920
Norton & Clark Kennebunkport ME 136199 Eagle Wing schooner 1,232 1891
Norton & Clark Kennebunkport ME 217901 Edmund A. Billings schooner 334 1918
Palmer, Nathaniel T. Bath ME Sarah E. Palmer Nathaniel T. Palmer 4-masted schooner 1,172 1894
Palmer, Nathaniel T. Bath ME Augustus Palmer Nathaniel T. Palmer 4-masted schooner 1,236 1894
Palmer, Nathaniel T. Bath ME 92633 Mary E. Palmer Nathaniel T. Palmer 4-masted schooner 1,526 1895
Palmer, Nathaniel T. Bath ME 81533 William B. Palmer Nathaniel T. Palmer 4-masted schooner 1,806 1896 wrecked 1910 on Davis Bank
Palmer, Nathaniel T. Bath ME 12103 Frank A. Palmer Nathaniel T. Palmer 4-masted schooner 2,014 1897 collision and sank 1902 off Boston MA
Palmer, Nathaniel T. Bath ME 130802 Nathaniel T. Palmer Nathaniel T. Palmer 5-masted schooner 2,440 1898 abandoned at sea 1911
Pendleton Bros. Belfast ME 200331 Pendleton Brothers Pendleton Bros. schooner 970 1903
Pendleton Bros. Belfast ME 203577 Pendleton Sisters Pendleton Bros. schooner 999 1906
Pendleton Bros. Bath ME 217397 Brina T. Pendleton schooner 1,513 1918
Pendleton Bros. Bath ME 218884 Anna G. Lord schooner 864 1919
Pendleton Bros. Belfast ME 229070 Blanche C. Pendleton Pendleton Bros. schooner 880 1920
Portland SB South Portland ME 230975 Electronic East Coast Fisheries Co trawler 343 1918 sunk by mine 1918
Portland SB South Portland ME 217411 Albatross East Coast Fisheries Co trawler 384 1918 wrecked Diamond Shoals 1940
Portland SB South Portland ME 216942 Fish Hawk East Coast Fisheries Co trawler 352 1918 deleted 1956
Portland SB South Portland ME 216227 Kingfisher East Coast Fisheries Co trawler 343 1918 sunk by mine 1918
Portland SB South Portland ME 218621 Pelican East Coast Fisheries Co trawler 379 1919 scrapped 1954
Portland SB South Portland ME 217962 Sea Bird East Coast Fisheries Co trawler 383 1919 scrapped 1954
Portland Ship Ceiling Portland ME 216726 Andra steamer 2,550 1918
Portland Ship Ceiling Portland ME 216865 Basaan steamer 2,499 1918
Portland Ship Ceiling Portland ME 216904 Okesa steamer 2,503 1918
Rideout, John P. Bowdoinham ME 115572 Sea King schooner 1,491 1877 sank 1917 in New York Harbor
Skolfield, George R. Brunswick ME 115975 Sam Skolfield 2nd George R. Skolfield schooner 1,566 1884 later Harvard
Skolfield, George R. Brunswick ME 85891 George R. Skolfield George R. Skolfield schooner 1,728 1885 stranded 1920 near Sea Isle City
Smith, Almon J. Kennebunkport ME 216954 Kennebunk schooner 719 1918
Stockton Yard Inc. Stockton Springs ME 217306 Gladys M. Taylor schooner 987 1918
Stockton Yard Inc. Stockton Springs ME 216124 Helen Swanzy R. G. Morris schooner 746 1918 aux. schooner, burned 1923
Stockton Yard Inc. Stockton Springs ME 217664 A. Ernest Mills schooner 946 1919
Stockton Yard Inc. Stockton Springs ME 218885 Herbert L. Rawding schooner 1,219 1919
Stockton Yard Inc. Stockton Springs ME 220034 Maurice R. Thurlow schooner 1,270 1920
Stockton Yard Inc. Stockton Springs ME 220923 Alcaeus Hooper schooner 1,306 1921
Stover, Sylvester Harpswell ME 90079 M. M. Hamilton 3-masted Sloop 111 1869
Thompson, Nathaniel Kennebunk ME 110498 Reuce ship 1,924 1881 wrecked in Japan 1922
Tupper, William L. Jonesboro ME 106218 Abbie S. Walker schooner 190 1883
United States SB Portland ME Elias Issaias freighter 1,495 1919 foundered 1920
Ward, Charles Kennebunk ME 215598 Charles B. Wiggin B. A. Smith schooner 311 1917 later aux. schooner, deleted 1927
UNIDENTIFIED SHIPBUILDERS
Addison ME 106863 Annie M. Preble schooner 102 1891
Alna ME 105273 Annie P. Chase schooner 256 1863
Bangor ME 120503 F. C. Pendleton Pendleton Bros. schooner 408 1882 sunk off Seal Harbor ME
Bath ME 150056 Palmyra Tom White schooner barge 1,299 1865
Bath ME 75809 J. D. Peters Booth Fisheries bark 1,085 1875 later schooner barge, burned 1930 off West Coast
Bath ME 135516 E. B. Sutton Neptune Line schooner barge 1,819 1881
Bath ME 91861 Maine Mary A. Carter schooner 190 1886
Bath ME 3508 Benj. A. Van Brunt schooner 1,191 1891 collision 1931 and sank off Fall River MA
Bath ME 111071 Rebecca R. Douglas Clarence A. Small 3-masted schooner 475 1894 wrecked 1916 off the Maine coast
Bath ME 136570 Ellenville Robert B. Wathen schooner barge 858 1895
Bath ME 111108 Rondout Morecraft Transportation schooner barge 831 1896
Bath ME 116714 Somerset Staples Transportation schooner barge 283 1896
Bath ME 161111 Kentucky Morecraft Transportation schooner barge 1,575 1898
Bath ME 81595 Warren Staples Transportation schooner barge 283 1898
Bath ME 130776 Number Five Metropolitan Coal schooner barge 909 1898
Bath ME 130813 Number Fourteen Metropolitan Coal schooner barge 927 1899
Bath ME 130834 Number Eighteen Metropolitan Coal schooner barge 936 1899
Bath ME 130840 Number Nineteen Metropolitan Coal schooner barge 932 1899
Bath ME 155371 Ohio Morecraft Transportation schooner barge 1,629 1899
Bath ME 145818 Tipton Staples Transportation schooner barge 830 1899
Bath ME 25317 Upton Morecraft Transportation schooner barge 843 1899
Bath ME 137038 Emilie Mystic Steamship schooner barge 1,069 1902
Bath ME 96683 Hattie Howard V. Redgate schooner barge 1,286 1903
Belfast ME 120044 Flora Condon schooner 230 1872
Belfast ME 105153 A. Hayford schooner 153 1872
Belfast ME 95737 Herald schooner 500 1883
Belfast ME 150365 Puritan schooner 116 1886
Belfast ME 77218 Josephine schooner 940 1896
Boothbay ME 105973 Alaska trawler 173 1881 burned in the Raritan River 1902
Boothbay ME 3234 Bertha D. Nickerson whaler 143 1883
Boothbay ME 76820 Joel F. Shepherd schooner 598 1889 later Mattie L. Johnson, William T. Lank
Boothbay ME 161604 Valkyria whaler 139 1889
Brewer ME 24043 Timothy Field sloop 147 1861
Brewer ME 140258 Llewellyn J. Morse schooner 1,392 1877
Brewer ME 91277 Melissa Trask schooner 236 1880
Brewer ME 106813 Aetna schooner 350 1891 wrecked 1913 in Muscongus Bay
Bucksport ME 136255 Estelle schooner 444 1891 later Coniscliffe
Calais ME 22932 St. Croix schooner 234 1866
Calais ME 15753 L. L. Hamlin schooner 147 1871
Calais ME 115160 Seth W. Smith schooner 198 1872
Calais ME 120143 Freddie Eaton schooner 89 1874
Calais ME 18793 Nellie Eaton schooner 118 1874 wrecked 1924 in Bay of Fundy
Calais ME 115347 Sarah Eaton schooner 199 1874 wrecked 1859 on Nantucket
Calais ME 115379 Seth M. Todd schooner 194 1875
Cherryfield ME 120804 Florence A schooner 154 1890
Cherryfield ME 140969 Lucy May schooner 104 1888
Damariscotta ME 5241 Charlie and Willie schooner 123 1849
Damariscotta ME 24517 Telumah schooner 230 1866
Damariscotta ME 135173 Elwell ship 1,461 1875
Deering ME 110263 Rufus E. Wood schooner 1,432 1875
East Bluehill ME 96137 Hazel Dell schooner 157 1891
East Hampden ME 218876 Katherine May schooner 910 1919
East Machias ME 1561 Alaska schooner 173 1867
Ellsworth ME 15680 Lavolta schooner 204 1870
Ellsworth ME 80155 Wesley Abbott schooner 144 1870
Ellsworth ME 96298 Henrietta A. Whitney schooner 217 1895
Freeport ME 115504 San Joaquin schooner 1,551 1876 to USN 1918 as a collier, sold 1919
Gouldsboro ME 18860 Orozimbo schooner 147 1854
Machias ME 110950 Regina schooner 114 1891
New Castle ME 75888 Josephus schooner 1,406 1876 to USN 1917, returned 1919
Orrington ME 18477 Nellie Doe schooner 128 1867 later George R. Smith
Rockport ME 5251 catawamteak schooner 148 1864
Rockport ME 107708 Annie schooner 613 1901 later Rose E. Murphy
Rockport ME 201527 Addison E. Bullard schooner 1,485 1904
Searsport ME 26129 William Butman schooner 171 1861 later Clarina
Searsport ME 15965 Lizzie Lane schooner 231 1874
Stockton ME 2876 Brigadier schooner 310 1873
Surry ME 9230 Franconia schooner 136 1862
Tremont ME 18136 Northern Light schooner 139 1865
Verona ME 106307 Allanwilde schooner 477 1884
Verona ME 126089 Carrie A. Bucknam schooner 287 1882
York ME 130457 Norton schooner 104 1889

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