Jeremiah Simonson

Greenpoint NY

Most recent update: August 4, 2015.

Joseph Bishop & Jeremiah Simonson started this shipyard in 1834, at the foot of Walnut Street, in Manhattan. The partnership broke up in 1849 and Jeremiah Simonson, who was fortunate enough to be Cornelius Vanderbilt's nephew, moved the yard to Greenpoint in 1855, to a site at the foot of Calyer Street. The table below is clearly incomplete:

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Name O/N Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
Built by Bishop & Simonson in Manhattan
Lexington C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 488 207 1835 burned 1840
Cleopatra C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 402 193 1836 sold foreign 1852
Governor Dudley passenger freighter 408 1838 sold 1857 as Catawba, sold foreign 1860
Osiris passenger freighter 145 1838 captured 1861
Worcester passenger freighter 605 219 1841 to USA 1861
Iolas passenger freighter 180 135 1842 to USA 1865, sold 1866 as Gipsey
Traveller 24269 passenger freighter 584 225 1845 deleted 1873
Atlantic passenger freighter 1,112 320 1846 wrecked 1846
Antelope 1212 passenger freighter 425 1847 deleted 1888
Commodore C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 984 275 1848 lost 1866
State of Maine 22877 passenger freighter 806 1848 sold foreign 1871
Ohio U.S. Mail SS Co passenger freighter 2,432 248 1849 scrapped 1860
Built by Jeremiah Simonson in Manhattan
Prometheus C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 1,207 1850 sold foreign 1857
Northern Light 18204 C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 1,768 1851 scrapped 1875
Hunchback 10135 Staten Island R. T. ferry 517 1852 to USN 1861, sold 1866 as General Grant, deleted 1880
Star of the West C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 1,172 1852 captured 1861, renamed CSS St. Philip, scuttled 1863
North Star 18302 U.S. Mail SS Co passenger freighter 1,867 270 1853 scrapped 1865
Plymouth Rock 20151 passenger freighter 1,752 330 1854 deleted 1887
Ariel 797 passenger freighter 1,295 250 1855 lost 1873
Granada passenger freighter 1,059 1855 lost 1860
Clifton Staten Island R. T. ferry 117 1856 deleted 1858
Built by Jeremiah Simonson in Greenpoint
Vanderbilt 24964 N. Atlantic Mail SS Co passenger freighter 3,360 331 1856 to USN 1862, sold 1873 as Three Brothers, scrapped 1899
Magnolia 16989 passenger freighter 843 1857 captured 1862, recaptured 1862, sold 1865, deleted 1866
Galveston passenger freighter 945 1857 captured 1862 as General Quitman, burned 1862
Orizaba passenger freighter 595 1858 captured 1862, stranded in Texas 1865
Long Island 22097 C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 474 300 1859 deleted 1906
Santiago de Cuba 22825 Valienti & Co. passenger freighter 1,567 1861 sold 1886 as barge Marion
Seneca US Navy gunboat 507 1861 sold 1868
Connecticut 18307 US Navy passenger freighter 2,150 1861 sold 1865 as South America, deleted 1875
Westfield Staten Island R. T. ferry 891 1861 to USN 1861, scuttled in Texas 1863
Northfield 18276 Staten Island R. T. ferry 855 1862 lost 1902
Clifton 15434 Staten Island R. T. ferry 700 1862 to USN 1863 as Shokokon, sold 1865 as Lone Star, sunk in Texas 1868
Westfield 26504 Staten Island R. T. ferry 807 1862 to City of New York 1906, deleted 1912
Union 18303 passenger freighter 2,085 1862 to USN 1863 as Fort Jackson, sold 1865 as North America, deleted 1879
Costa Rica 4882 C. Vanderbilt passenger freighter 984 1863 sold 1875 as Genaki Maru
Yesso Dearborn & Co. passenger freighter 973 1864 to China 1864
Chenango US Navy gunboat 1,173 1864 sold 1868
New York 18301 N. Atlantic Mail SS Co passenger freighter 2,217 1865 sold 1874 as Tokio Maru, scrapped 1880s
Paou Shun 18305 Dearborn & Co. passenger freighter 1,691 1865 sold 1867 as Nevada, sold foreign 1877, scrapped 1885
Susquehanna 22797 Erie RR ferry 921 1865 sold 1912 as Arden, deleted 1924
Walrus 26521 NY & Phila. SB Co. passenger freighter 1,633 253 1866 to China 1869, Chusan 1872
Nautilus 18299 NY & Phila. SB Co. passenger freighter 1,633 253 1866 to China 1869, Fychow 1872
Grampus 10500 NY & Phila. SB Co. passenger freighter 1,633 253 1866 sold 1868 as Stonington, barge 1894
Manatus 18475 NY & Phila. SB Co. passenger freighter 1,633 253 1866 sold 1868 as Narragansett, schooner 1901

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