Todd Shipyards ~ Shipbuilding History

Todd Shipyards

Brooklyn NY

Most recent update: March 8, 2014.

Todd Shipyards started life in Brooklyn, in 1869, as Handren and Robins. After Handren's death in 1892, it became the J. N. Robins Co. and then, after merging with the Erie Basin Dry Dock Company, which had been established by Delamater Iron Works, it became the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company. William H. Todd had worked for both these companies and, in 1916, he and some associates bought Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company, Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company, of Hoboken, and Seattle Dry Dock & Construction Company, to form the William H. Todd Corporation, which would later become Todd Shipyards Corporation. A year later they added the Tebo Yacht Basin Company and developed their initial new construction facilities at that location. This yard was closed in 1937, however, and subsequent new construction was carried out in the Erie Basin yard. The Erie Basin yard was closed in 1986 and sold to Rodermond Industries, which failed in the 1990s. You can see the site, basically the Beard Street side of the Erie Basin, from the air on Google here. It was mainly a repair yard.

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	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	Delivered	Notes
Built by Handren & Robins
	59439	201	American Steel barge	whaleback barge	664	1890	aground 1917
	59443	202	American Steel barge	whaleback barge	665	1890	sunk 1908
	116332	Sultana	Edward H. Harriman	yacht	390	1890	to USN 1917 as SP-134, returned 1919
Built by J. N. Robins Co.
	116730	Sovereign	M. C. D. Borden	yacht	627	1896	to USN 1898 as Scorpion, scrapped 1928
	92789	Marietta	R. N. Carson	yacht	153	1897	later Oneta, Bernice (converted to gas), Mary Alice, to USN 1917 as SP-397, lost 5-Oct-1918
	121082	Felicia	Jesse H. Metcalf	yacht	213	1898	to USN 1917 as SP-642, sold 1920
	107487	Aloha	A. Curtis James	yacht	306	1899	NLD 1912
	96634	Hauoli	F. M. Smith	yacht	147	1902	later Seminole, Kajeruna, to USN 1917 as SP-389, returned 1919
	96694	Hauoli	F. M. Smith	yacht	299	1903	later California, to USN 1917 as SP-249, sold 1920
Built by Tebo Yacht Basin Co.
	206536	Carnegie	Carnegie Institute	yacht	323	1909	wooden vessel, of non-magnetic construction
Built by Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co.
	212143	Nokomis I	Horace Dodge	yacht	303	May 1914	later Kwasind, to USN 1917 as SP-1233, sold 1920 as Nokomis, Saelmo, Dupont
Built by Tebo Yacht Basin Co. (as a subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corp.)
1		Fuel-Oil Barge No. 30	US Navy	SP tank barge	422	1918	later YO-30 1920, disposed-of 1947
2		Fuel-Oil Barge No. 31	US Navy	SP tank barge	422	1918	later YO-31 1920; sold 1947 as Alan Martin, reefed off NJ 1987
3		Fuel-Oil Barge No. 32	US Navy	SP tank barge	422	1918	later YO-32 1920, disposed-of 1947
4		Lapwing (AM-1)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	12 Jun 2018	later AVP-1, sold 1946
5		Owl (AM-2)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	11 Jul 2018	later ATO-137, sold 1947
6		Robin (AM-3)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	29 Aug 2018	later ATO-140, sold 1946 as Hyacinth, Margaret Rose 1951, scrapped 1954
7		Swallow (AM-4)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	8 Oct 2018	wrecked in Alaska 1938
8		Sanderling (AM-37)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	4 Dec 2018	sank while under tow 1937
9		Auk (AM-38)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	30 Nov 2018	to USC+GS as Discoverer, ARS-3, back to USC+GS, sold 1947 as Felipe Larrazabal
10		Chewink (AM-39)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	9 Apr 2019	later ASR-3, sunk as target 1947
11		Cormorant (AM-40)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	15 May 2019	later ATO-133, sold 1947
12		Gannet (AM-41)	US Navy	minesweeper	950	7 Oct 2019	later AVP-8, torpedoed and lost 1942
14	220227	Manuel Rionda	Sinclair Cuba Nav. Co.	tanker	1,375	June 1920	scrapped 1950
15	220567	Virginia		dispatch boat	35	1920
16	225292	Ormes	Donald SS Co.	freighter	1,394	Dec 1920	Taku 1939, Lloyd Cuarto 1946, Rio Bravo 1952, Jurandy 1955, Senhor do Bonfim 1958
17	225291	Oritani	Donald SS Co.	freighter	1,396	Feb 1921	Tyee 1939, Midway (AG-41) 1942, Lloyd Quinto 1946, Rio Das Antas 1951, Consuelo 1955, Tritao 1958, scrapped 1961
18	221059	Natalie May		dispatch boat	35	1921
19	221095	W. E. Ogilvie	Sinclair Cuba Nav. Co.	tanker	1,336	Mar 1921	scrapped 1950
20	221984	Maryland	Maryland Pilots Assn.	pilot boat	398	1922	conversion of trawler
21	222354	Cynthia	Merrill B. Mills	yacht	261	Sep 1922
22	222741	NY Central RR No. 30	New York Central RR	tugboat	235	Mar 1923
23	222786	NY Central RR No. 31	New York Central RR	tugboat	235	Apr 1923
24	222787	NY Central RR No. 32	New York Central RR	tugboat	235	May 1923
25	223246	Socony 8	Standard Transportation	tugboat	215	Sep 1923
26	223247	Socony 9	Standard Transportation	tugboat	215	Oct 1923	later Richard S. Simmons
27		Lighter No. 4	USSB	lighter		July 1923
28		Lighter No. 5	USSB	lighter		Sep 1923
29		Lighter No. 6	USSB	lighter		Sep 1923
30		Lighter No. 7	USSB	lighter		Sep 1923
31			Asiatic Petroleum	tank barge		1924
32	224506	Murray Hulbert	City of New York	ferry	593	July 1925	later Rockaway 1930, Arrowsic (YFB-59) 1945, Rockaway 1947, hulked 1967
33	224504	Edward Riegelmann	City of New York	ferry	593	Oct 1925	later Bushwick 1930, scrapped 1949
34	224505	Julius Miller	City of New York	ferry	593	Aug 1925	later Stuyvesant 1930, YFB-52, scrapped 1948
35	224986	Maurice E. Connelly	City of New York	ferry	593	Sep 1925	later Elmhurst 1930, hulked 1946
36	224984	John H. McCooey	City of New York	ferry	593	Oct 1925	later Sea Gate 1930, scrapped 1949
Built by Todd Dry-Dock & Repair Co.
37	225958	Sumar	David C. Whitney	yacht	469	Sep 1926	later Horizonte Azul 1948, Poros 1950, Delphini 1957, Alkion 1961, wrecked off Naxos 1967
38	173840	Oil Barge No. 1	City of New York	tank barge	161	1925
39	226065	Vidor	S. P. Davis	yacht	570	Nov 1926	Sevad 1950, Hiesmaro 1928, Hilda 1929, Moana 1933, Velda 1938, Santa Cristina 1950, burned off Balboa 1950
40	227201	Greenwich Village	City of New York	ferry	245	Feb 1928
41	227200	Mott Haven	City of New York	ferry	245	Feb 1928	to Lake Champlain 1945, to Britain 1951
42	173531	Mileage No. 1	Warner-Quinlan Co.	tank barge	233	May 1928
43	173505	Mileage No. 2	Warner-Quinlan Co.	tank barge	233	May 1928
44	174225	No. 146	Standard Dredging	barge	52	1928
45	228264	Yorkville	City of New York	ferry	593	Mar 1929	scrapped 1960
46			Todd Shipyards	drydock gate		1929
47				barge		1929
48	229173	Melrose	City of New York	ferry	593	Dec 1929	to USA as Col. Robert E. Shannon 1942, scrapped 1964
49	229949	Chelsea	City of New York	ferry	245	June 1930	sold as yacht 1968
50	230778	Murray Hill	City of New York	ferry	593	June 1931	scrapped 1954
51	230782	Washington Square	City of New York	ferry	593	June 1931	later Staten, to USN 1941 as YFB-36, sold 1947
52	231225	John J. Harvey	City of New York	fireboat	268	17 Dec 1931	restored and at Pier 63 in New York City
built by Robins Dry-Dock & Repair Co.
53	233890	All American	Texas Co.	tugboat	192	May 1935
54	235341	Ox	Robins Dry Dock	SP derrick barge	216	Oct 1936
55		Bull	Robins Dry Dock	power barge	216	Dec 1938
56	174625	Robins No. 6	Robins Dry Dock	tank barge	216	Jan 1940
Built by Todd Shipyards Corp.
57-80		LCI(L)	US Navy	landing craft	246d	1942-43	subcontract from New Jersey Shipbuilding
		LCT(6)	US Navy	landing craft	143d	1943-44	subcontract from Bison Shipbuilding
	247583	Brazos	Sabine Transportation	tanker		June 1958	midbody only
	246672	R. P. Smith	Sabine Transportation	tanker		July 1958	midbody only
		The Canadian	Freedomland USA	excursion vessel		1960	replica paddlewheeler
		The American	Freedomland USA	excursion vessel		1960	replica paddlewheeler