Roosevelt, Joyce & Co.
New York NY
Most recent update: September 8, 2017.
Solomon Roosevelt and William S. Joyce started this shipyard in 1851: the partnership was expanded to include Waterbury in 1864, but ended in 1866, when Joyce died. Their yard was on the south side of the east end of Houston Street, in Manhattan. The table below is clearly incomplete:
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
Rapid | James Bishop & Co. | clipper ship | 1,115 | 1852 | ||||
T. A. Ward | Fremington | steamer | 1853 | |||||
David Brown | A.A. Low & Co. | clipper ship | 1,717 | 1853 | ||||
Wide Awake | A. A. Low & Co. | clipper ship | 1,750 | 1853 | ||||
Bishop & Williams | clipper ship | 1,100 | 1853 | |||||
Monarch of the Seas | Lawrence Giles & Co. | clipper ship | 1,971 | 1854 | ||||
Titan | Daniel C. Bacon | clipper ship | 1,985 | 1855 | ||||
Fairy | Gordon Talbot & Co. | clipper ship | 629 | 1856 | ||||
Glad Tidings | William Nelson & Son | clipper ship | 898 | 1856 | ||||
Hotspur | Frank Hathaway et al. | clipper ship | 862 | 1857 | ||||
General Warren | Long Island Ferry Co | ferry | 512 | 1859 | ||||
Marion | Long Island Ferry Co | ferry | 512 | 1859 | to USN 1861 as Morse, sold 1865 as Lincoln, abandoned 1885 | |||
Suffolk County | Long Island RR | ferry | 512 | 1860 | to Delaware interests 1893, abandoned 1901 | |||
Kings County | Long Island RR | ferry | 512 | 1861 | burned 1868 | |||
Po-Yang | Olyphant & Co. | steamer | 827 | 1861 | ||||
Ta-Kiang | Olyphant & Co. | steamer | 609 | 1862 | later Oye Maru, foundered 1869 off Cape Inaboye | |||
10517 | George Cromwell | Cromwell & Co. | steamer | 802 | 1862 | wrecked 1877 | ||
10848 | George Washington | Cromwell & Co. | steamer | 804 | 1862 | wrecked 1877 | ||
7722 | Evening Star | New York Mail SS Co | steamer | 2,014 | 270 | 1863 | foundered 1866 off Tybee I. | |
17024 | Morning Star | New York Mail SS Co | steamer | 2,022 | 270 | 1863 | scrapped 1875 | |
10518 | Guiding Star | New York Mail SS Co | steamer | 2,384 | 270 | 1864 | scrapped 1874 | |
21457 | Rising Star | New York Mail SS Co | steamer | 2,726 | 300 | 1865 | scrapped 1877 |