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

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