Osborn Boat Works ~ Shipbuilding History

Osborn Boat Works

Croton-On-Hudson NY

Osborn Boat Works was started by William R. Osborn in 1857, in Peekskill, moved to Croton-on-Hudson in 1900 and closed some time in the 1920s. In Peekskill it was located where Riverfront Green Park is today and in Croton where Senasqua Park is today.

Peekskill

Croton

O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	LOA	Built	Notes
93241	Marie	J. L. Velez	yacht	44	67	1900
150901	Ponce		tugboat	26	50	1900	later Siesta
121172	Frolic		passenger	36	64	1901	to USA as Phillips, to USN 1917 as ID-1389, SP-1389
127521	Commodore Bartlett		passenger	58	78	1901
136901	Eagle	John J. Slater	yacht	49	76	1901
207079	Stork		passenger	7	32	1901
208082	Marjorie M		passenger	12	39	1901
25347	Union		tugboat	10	41	1901
3950	Bonito	W. S. Murchison	yacht	159	94	1902
200054	Tempest		freighter	18	45	1903
202365	Frolic		passenger	44	69	1905	to USN as YFB
202666	Happy Days		yacht	43	65	1905
203339	Pelham	James L. Lawler	passenger	46	58	1906
203440	Caribe		passenger	74	70	1906
203441	Wm. L. Parkhurst	Ella H. Lockhart	ferry	50	70	1906
205331	W. C. Baxter		tugboat	16	42	1908
206304	Edith M III		motor boat	22	49	1909	to USN 1917 as SP-196, sold 1919
206413	Zephyr		passenger	127	83	1909
206540	Ulster Davis	American Pipe	tugboat	26	46	1909
206794	Mary Belle	Mohawk Dredge	tugboat	20	45	1909
207555	Harry B, Jr.	Thomas Ahlquist	freighter	14	41	1910
208471	Azua		tugboat	10	40	1911
208622	Chas. H. Pike	Julia E. Vandevoort	tugboat	20	45	1911	later Comstock
208874	Frolic	Louis Lubchansky	passenger	36	67	1911	later Michael Howard
211757	Shady Side	Edenton Ferries	ferry	49	85	1913	to USN 1918 as SP-2079, YFB-2079, sank 1925
212795	J. Hooker Hammersley	City of New York	passenger	70	80	1914	later Sisco No. 6, Service No. 2
212850	Dixie		steamer	128	98	1914	to USA as Col. Barnette
214641	George C. Van Tuyl		tugboat	14	43	1916	later Murray Vandiver
233330	Elizabeth K	John B. Kappauf	passenger	9	33	1918