Wheeler Shipbuilding
Whitestone NY
Most recent update: August 26, 2021.
The Wheeler Yacht Company was founded at the turn of the 19th century by Howard E. Wheeler, in Brooklyn NY. During WWI, like other yacht builders, the yard built sub chasers. When WWII came, the Brooklyn yard, which has its own table here, was dedicated first to minesweepers and then to an astonishing series of 230 patrol craft for the Coast Guard. The company built a second yard, which operated as Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., at Whitestone NY, which also started out building minesweepers but went on to build tugs and coastal freighters. After the war, the yard returned to pleasure craft construction with production of its "Sunlounge" line, but closed in 1948. See the site from the air on Google here.
See the main list of FS freighters here.
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | LDT | LOA | Delivered | Notes | |
YMS-42 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 25 Apr 1942 | to the USSR 1945 as T-582, scrapped 1956 | ||
YMS-43 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 11 May 1942 | to France 1944 as Lotus (D-324), abandoned and sunk in Tahiti 1958 | ||
YMS-44 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 25 May 1942 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-45 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 5 Jun 1942 | reclassified 1947 as Barbet (AMS-41, MSCO 41), struck 1960 | ||
YMS-46 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 20 Jun 1942 | struck 1947 | ||
YMS-47 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 2 Jul 1942 | struck 1945 | ||
YMS-48 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 14 Jul 1942 | damaged by gunfire at Corregidor and scuttled 1945 | ||
YMS-49 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 24 Jul 1942 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-50 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 3 Aug 1942 | mined off Borneo and lost 1945 | ||
YMS-51 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 12 Aug 1942 | struck 1947 | ||
YMS-52 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 21 Aug 1942 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-53 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 31 Aug 1942 | struck 1946, sold as Myrnalynn (ON 258885) | ||
BYMS-5 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 14 Sep 1942 | to South Korea 1947 as Kil Chu, scrapped 1956 | ||
BYMS-6 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 28 Sep 1942 | to South Korea 1947 as Kong City, sunk 1950 | ||
BYMS-7 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 8 Oct 1942 | sold 1947 | ||
BYMS-8 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 19 Oct 1942 | to South Korea 1948 as Yong Kung, scrapped 1955 | ||
BYMS-65 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 22 Jan 1943 | to Greece 1946 as Karteria, struck 1973 | ||
BYMS-66 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 8 Feb 1943 | to Greece 1946 as Papalos, struck 1973 | ||
BYMS-67 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 23 Feb 1943 | to Greece 1946 as Salaminia, struck 1960 | ||
BYMS-68 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 16 Mar 1943 | to Greece 1946 as Lefkas, struck 1966 | ||
BYMS-69 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 30 Mar 1943 | to Egypt 1949 as Naharia, discarded 1970 | ||
BYMS-70 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 15 Apr 1943 | scrapped 1948 | ||
BYMS-71 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 4 May 1943 | to Greece 1947 as Kafalinnia, returned 1947 and discarded | ||
BYMS-72 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 13 May 1943 | captured off Kalymnos 1943, German GD-07, probably sunk 1944 | ||
BYMS-73 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 31 May 1943 | to Italy 1957 as Begonia, Oltramonti, deleted 1980s | ||
BYMS-74 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 8 Jun 1943 | to Greece 1944 as Kassos, sunk off Piraeus 1944 | ||
BYMS-75 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 18 Jun 1943 | to Egypt 1949 as Kaisaria, discarded 1970 | ||
BYMS-76 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 29 Jun 1943 | to Greece 1946 as Prokyon, struck 1968 | ||
BYMS-77 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 6 Jul 1943 | mined in the Gulf of Corinth and lost 1944 | ||
BYMS-78 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 14 Jul 1943 | to Greece 1948 as Vegas, returned 1948 | ||
BYMS-79 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 24 Jul 1943 | sold 1948 | ||
BYMS-80 | Royal Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 3 Aug 1943 | sold 1947 | ||
YMS-363 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 12 Aug 1943 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-364 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 21 Aug 1943 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-365 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 28 Aug 1943 | mined off Borneo and lost 1945 | ||
YMS-366 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 7 Sep 1943 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-367 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 20 Sep 1943 | to China 1948, struck 1976 | ||
YMS-368 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 27 Sep 1943 | struck 1946 | ||
YMS-369 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 9 Oct 1943 | later Heron (AMS-18) 1947, to Japan 1955 as Nuwajima (MCS-657), sunk as target 1967 | ||
YMS-370 | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 19 Oct 1943 | struck 1946 | ||
one of above | US Navy | minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 1943 | later Robert H, Nauty Queen | ||
PCS-1376 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 9 Jul 1943 | later Winder 1956, scrapped 1958 | ||
PCS-1377 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 19 Jan 1944 | |||
PCS-1378 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 9 Feb 1944 | later Provincetown 1956, scrapped 1958 | ||
PCS-1379 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 1 Mar 1944 | |||
PCS-1380 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 22 Mar 1944 | later Rushville 1956, scrapped 1958 | ||
PCS-1381 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 12 Apr 1944 | |||
259604 | PCS-1382 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 1 May 1944 | later Tuna Shark 1956, sold as Tuna Shark, Pacific Trawler | |
PCS-1383 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 7 Aug 1944 | later Attica 1956, sold as Cape Fear | ||
PCS-1384 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 8 Sep 1944 | later Eufala 1956 | ||
PCS-1385 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 5 Oct 1944 | later Hollidaysburg 1956, struck 1970 | ||
PCS-1386 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 4 Nov 1944 | later Hampton 1956, struck 1959 | ||
PCS-1387 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 27 Nov 1944 | later Beaufort 1956, sold 1972 | ||
259946 | PCS-1388 | US Navy | subchaser | 278 | 136 | 11 Dec 1944 | later Littlehales (AGS-7) 1945, sold 1950 as John-O | |
one of above | US Navy | 278 | 136 | 1944 | later White Plume, Nordic Lady | |||
ATR-1 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Nov 1943 | disposed-of 1946 | ||
ATR-2 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Dec 1943 | to War Dept. 1946 | ||
ATR-3 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Jan 1944 | to Cuba 1946 as 20 de Mayo, struck 1960 | ||
ATR-4 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Feb 1944 | to Canada 1946 as ATR 4, Louise Simard, restaurant Le Bateau Ivre, in Ile-aux-Grues PQ since 1968 | ||
ATR-5 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Feb 1944 | to Canada 1946 as Algerine, Arctic Bay, Batalla de Mal Tiempo, scrapped 1987 | ||
ATR-6 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Mar 1944 | to the Philippines 1946 as Edward R. Grimm, Wallace R. Gray, Takapuna | ||
ATR-29 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Apr 1944 | disposed-of 1946 | ||
ATR-30 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | May 1944 | to Panama 1946 as El Greco | ||
ATR-60 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | 31 May 1944 | disposed-of 1946 as Storebror, Lenaship II, deleted 1962 | ||
255219 | ATR-61 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | 24 Jun 1944 | disposed-of 1946 as Alfred M. Carlson | |
ATR-62 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | July 1944 | disposed-of 1946 as Western Ace | ||
ATR-63 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Aug 1944 | disposed-of 1946 | ||
ATR-64 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Aug 1944 | sold 1950 as Logmac, Mogul, Island Monarch, Seaspan Chinook, La Lumiere, sank 1980 | ||
ATR-65 | US Navy | tugboat | 850 | 165 | Sep 1944 | to Britain 1946 as Grenadier, deleted 1960s | ||
67 | FS-253 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 7 May 1944 | USCG-manned, P. Aboitiz, Baybay | |
68 | FS-254 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 23 May 1944 | USCG-manned, to Korea as City of Yoju | |
69 | FS-255 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 6 Jun 1944 | USCG-manned, torpedoed and sunk off Mindanao 1945 | |
70 | FS-256 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 16 Jun 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1950 as AKL-22, struck 1961 | |
71 | FS-257 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 24 Jun 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1950 as USS Alhena (AKL-38), to Korea 1951, scrapped 1960 | |
72 | FS-258 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 4 Jul 1944 | USCG-manned | |
73 | FS-259 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 15 Jul 1944 | USCG-manned, ex-PVT ROBERT T HENRY, to USN 1950 as T-AKL-21, struck 1959, in Panama Aug 1949, in USN reserve 1952-59, sold 1961, Star 60, Rio Chagres (reflagged Panama), finally Northumberland (converted to trawler), hit a gas pipeline, blew up and sank off Sabine, Tex., 3 Oct 1989. | |
74 | FS-260 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 26 Jul 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as Don Mariano | |
75 | FS-261 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 2 Aug 1944 | USCG-manned, to China as Peony, Lucky Trader, Flying Bird, Chiat Min, Perada, Rahmat, scrapped 1978 | |
76 | FS-262 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 9 Aug 1944 | USCG-manned, to China as Lotus | |
77 | FS-263 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 16 Aug 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as Deal (AG-131/AKL-2), sold 1961 as Don Carlos, Laissez Faire, Princess Olga, Earl J. Conrad Jr. | |
78 | FS-264 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 24 Aug 1944 | USCG-manned | |
79 | FS-265 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 1 Sep 1944 | USCG-manned | |
80 | FS-266 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 8 Sep 1933 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as USS Tingles (AG-144), AKL-13, sold 1969 as Ran Annim, scrapped 1982 | |
81 | FS-267 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 18 Sep 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as USS Elba (AG-132). later AKL-3, to DOI 1952 | |
82 | FS-268 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 22 Sep 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as Virginia VI, Elena, Don Jose I, scrapped 1986 | |
83 | FS-269 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 2 Oct 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as Cotabato-J | |
84 | FS-270 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 6 Oct 1944 | USCG-manned, retained in USA | |
85 | FS-271 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 13 Oct 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as General Mojica, Marcelino, scrapped 1988 | |
86 | FS-272 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 22 Oct 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as Don Jose I, Dona Maria, scrapped 1986 | |
87 | FS-273 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 6 Nov 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as General Roxas, General del Pilar, General de los Reyes, Sweet trip, Sweet Ride, scrapped 1984 | |
88 | FS-274 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 31 Oct 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as USS Errol (AG-133), AKL-4, to DOI 1951, to the Philippines as Baztan, Don Victoriano | |
89 | FS-275 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 6 Nov 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as USS Estero (AG-134), AKL-5, struck 1960 | |
90 | FS-276 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 13 Nov 1944 | USCG-manned, in Army storage in Japan Aug 1949. In USN reserve 1952-61. Sale list Jul 1961. Sold to Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc, of Seattle, to buyer 29 Jun 1962, Kuwaiti shrimp processing ship DASMAN 10, 1963. | |
91 | FS-277 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 20 Nov 1944 | USCG-manned | |
92 | FS-278 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 25 Nov 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1950 as Range Recoverer (AG-161), AGM-2, YFRT-524, sold 1974, Reedville, reefed off DE 2020 | |
93 | FS-279 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 2 Dec 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as General Lukban | |
94 | FS-280 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 9 Dec 1944 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as General Mascardo | |
95 | FS-281 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 18 Dec 1944 | USCG-manned, to Argentina as San Marino, decommissioned 1996 | |
96 | FS-282 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 27 Dec 1944 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as USS Jekyl (AG-135). later AKL-6, sold 1960 as Sea Princess II, Betty K IV, Hope 1 | |
97 | FS-283 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 2 Jan 1945 | USCG-manned, to USN 1951 as USS Almaack (AKL-39), to Korea 1951, returned 1960, scrapped 1969 | |
98 | FS-284 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 12 Jan 1945 | USCG-manned, to the Philippines as Taype | |
99 | FS-285 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 22 Jan 1945 | USCG-manned, to Korea as City of Chungju | |
100 | FS-286 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 10 Feb 1945 | USCG-manned | |
101 | FS-287 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 1 Mar 1945 | USCG-manned, to France as Girod | |
102 | FS-288 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 10 Mar 1945 | USCG-manned, to USN 1950 as AKL-23, struck 1959 | |
103 | FS-289 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 24 Mar 1945 | USCG-manned, to USN 1947 as USS New Bedford (AKL-17), IX-308, sold 1996 as Ghost, Sea Bird | |
104 | FS-290 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 7 Apr 1945 | USCG-manned, lost in typhoon off Okinawa 1945 | |
105 | FS-291 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 21 Apr 1945 | later E-42-1835, John D. Diehl | |
106 | FS-292 | US Army | freighter | 560 | 176 | 5 May 1945 | to Liberia as Joanne, W. T. James, Jr. | |
107 | ST-859 | US Army | tugboat | 86 | Apr 1945 | to USSR 1940s | ||
108 | ST-860 | US Army | tugboat | 86 | May 1945 | sold 1961 as Judy S, May, capsized 1992 | ||
109 | ST-861 | US Army | tugboat | 86 | June 1945 | to USSR 1940s | ||
110 | 249491 | ST-862 | US Army | tugboat | 86 | July 1945 | cancelled, built as Metropolitan No. 2, scrapped 1970 | |
111 | 251162 | ST-863 | US Army | tugboat | 86 | 1946 | cancelled, built as Frederick A. Russell, Harry R. Conners, Frank L. Coyne, Mid State II, Tekaquitha, sank 1993 | |
120 | freighter | Aug 1945 | later Rosemarie | |||||
121 | Nina B | trawler | 198 | 1945 | later Nordeaster II, Nordelfin, Red Diamond VI, Hampton | |||
124 | Marge & Pat II | trawler | 198 | July 1946 | later Pacific, Cushmere, Evelyn L. Brown, Carlson Fishery III, Aspasia, Eileen Doe, Concordia | |||
125 | trawler | Oct 1946 | later Josephine Esa | |||||
127 | DB 1 | US Army | derrick barge | July 1945 | ||||
128 | 254651 | DB 2 | US Army | derrick barge | 79 | 64 | Sep 1945 | sold as Derrick Barge Gahagan No. 15 |
129 | DB 3 | US Army | derrick barge | Oct 1945 | ||||
130 | DB 4 | US Army | derrick barge | Oct 1945 | ||||
131 | DB 5 | US Army | derrick barge | Oct 1945 | ||||
132 | DB 6 | US Army | derrick barge | Oct 1945 | ||||
one of above | US Army | derrick barge | 1945 | sold as DB Justin, DB Victory | ||||
Fishing Vessels Built in Whitestone After WWII (listed by Official Number) | ||||||||
248804 | Janet & Jean | trawler | 47 | 60 | 1945 | later Valerie C | ||
249032 | Whitestone | trawler | 47 | 60 | 1945 | later Sandra and Cindy | ||
249282 | Arthur L | trawler | 47 | 60 | 1946 | later St. Anna Maria | ||
249820 | Matilda S | trawler | 47 | 60 | 1946 | later Gambler, sank 1994 | ||
250367 | Maridor | trawler | 47 | 60 | 1946 | later Alba | ||
Incomplete List of "Sunlounge" and Similar Cruisers Built in Whitestone After WWII (listed by Official Number) | ||||||||
193 | 40 | 1946 | later The Wheeler, Atralia, Catoctin | |||||
248025 | Lady Lou II | passenger | 14 | 42 | 1945 | later Parable | ||
253959 | Three Jay's | yacht | 30 | 44 | 1947 | |||
254661 | Serenade | yacht | 21 | 37 | 1946 | later Queen Chesapeake, Riff Raff | ||
256115 | Bonnie | trawler | 33 | 47 | 1948 | |||
256123 | Jackie | trawler | 33 | 47 | 1948 | |||
256902 | Cuquita | yacht | 21 | 37 | 1946 | |||
260579 | Jodi | yacht | 23 | 37 | 1946 | later Donnie B | ||
265155 | Dona Rosa II | passenger | 19 | 37 | 1946 | |||
268030 | Hurricane | yacht | 29 | 44 | 1947 | |||
274926 | Hi-Sea | trawler | 14 | 30 | 1946 | |||
277473 | Wickie | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1947 | later Mr. Lucky | ||
277777 | Electron | yacht | 25 | 43 | 1947 | |||
278475 | Emma-S | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1946 | |||
279252 | Civair | trawler | 12 | 36 | 1946 | later Weigle, Abby | ||
280201 | Najoles | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1946 | |||
281605 | Helen III | yacht | 21 | 38 | 1946 | later Dauntless III, Men Ehune | ||
281627 | Little Zephyr | yacht | 14 | 32 | 1946 | |||
281758 | Larc III | yacht | 29 | 44 | 1947 | |||
281891 | Cricket | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1946 | later El Lobo | ||
281992 | Lessew | yacht | 20 | 37 | 1946 | later Juniper | ||
282657 | Capodella IV | passenger | 20 | 38 | 1946 | later Adria, We Go It | ||
283204 | Jokial IV | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1946 | later Pegasus | ||
283365 | Fair Lady II | yacht | 13 | 31 | 1948 | |||
283377 | Tibi | yacht | 22 | 38 | 1946 | |||
283480 | The Packet | yacht | 17 | 39 | 1946 | |||
284492 | Jessie De | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1947 | |||
284574 | Mared | yacht | 13 | 31 | 1946 | later Leslyn | ||
285472 | Paramour | yacht | 27 | 44 | 1947 | later Siliver Cloud | ||
287391 | Rosario | yacht | 21 | 38 | 1946 | later Sea Mist | ||
290800 | Sea Horse | yacht | 22 | 37 | 1946 | |||
291430 | Camilla | passenger | 19 | 38 | 1946 | later Scuba Du | ||
295005 | Shee-Gwee | yacht | 23 | 37 | 1946 | later Fortune Cookie |