Continental Iron Works
Greenpoint NY
Most recent update: May 23, 2016.
This yard was established by Samuel Sneeden in 1851, became Sneeden & Rowland in 1858, and then Continental Iron Works, managed by Thomas Rowland, in 1859. The yard was at West and Calyer Streets, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn: the site is now occupied by a Consolidated Freightways terminal. The company ceased active shipbuilding in 1889.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| Built by Sneeden & Co. | ||||||||
| William Gibbons | passenger freighter | 294 | 1833 | stranded 1836 on Body Island | ||||
| Bay State | passenger freighter | 1,600 | 1846 | abandoned 1864 | ||||
| 7607 | Plymouth Rock | passenger freighter | 1,598 | 1848 | later Empire State, burned 1887 in Bristol RI | |||
| Cuba | passenger freighter | 508 | 1851 | |||||
| 4855 | California | passenger freighter | 480 | 1852 | abandoned 1878 | |||
| 4562 | City of Hartford | Hartford & NY SB Co | passenger freighter | 814 | 1852 | Capital City 1883, wrecked 1888 in LI Sound | ||
| 10332 | Granite State | C. W. Chapin | passenger freighter | 887 | 1853 | burned 1883 off Goodspeed Landing | ||
| Metacomet | passenger freighter | 395 | 1854 | to USN 1858 as Pulaski | ||||
| 16760 | Metropolis | Bay State SB Co | passenger freighter | 2,210 | 1854 | barge 1873, wrecked 1878 on Currituck NC | ||
| Christoval Colon | passenger freighter | 450 | 1856 | to Cuba, foundered 1857 | ||||
| Everglade | passenger freighter | 406 | 1856 | CSS Savannah, Oconee 1863, foundered 1863 | ||||
| 7717 | Dawn | passenger freighter | 399 | 1857 | to USN 1861, Eutaw 1865 | |||
| Independence | Capt. Ezra Nye | passenger freighter | 354 | 1857 | to Valparaiso, foundered 1859 | |||
| Built by Sneeden & Rowland | ||||||||
| 22818 | Daylight | passenger freighter | 682 | 1859 | to USN 1861, USS Santee 1865, barge 1886 | |||
| 16761 | Mount Vernon | passenger freighter | 625 | 1859 | to USN 1861, foundered 1869 | |||
| R. R. Cuyler | NY-Havana SS | passenger freighter | 1,202 | 1859 | to USN 1861, wrecked 1867 | |||
| 13452 | John Brooks | Naugatuck TC | steamer | 780 | 1859 | broken-up about 1897 | ||
| Built by Continental Iron Works | ||||||||
| 1468 | Alabama | I. L. Day and Others | steamboat | 510 | 1859 | abandoned 1892 | ||
| Flushing | Flushing Steam ferry | ferry | 333 | 1859 | sold foreign 1863 | |||
| 4631 | Continental | New Haven SB Co | steamer | 1,139 | 1861 | abandoned 1902 | ||
| Primero | Pesant Bros. and Co. | steamer | 331 | 1861 | sunk 1862 | |||
| 5270 | City of Boston | Norwich & NY TC | steamer | 1,497 | 1861 | scrapped 1896 | ||
| 5271 | City of New York | Norwich & NY TC | steamer | 1,497 | 1862 | burned 1866 | ||
| Monitor | US Navy | ironclad | 987 | 25 Feb 1862 | foundered off Cape Hatteras 1862 | |||
| Catskill | US Navy | ironclad | 1,875 | 24 Feb 1863 | sold 1802 | |||
| Montauk | US Navy | ironclad | 1,875 | 14 Dec 1862 | sold 1804 | |||
| Passaic | US Navy | ironclad | 1,875 | 25 Nov 1862 | sold 1899 | |||
| Sangamon | US Navy | ironclad | 1,875 | 1863 | sold 1905 | |||
| Onondaga | US Navy | ironclad | 2,592 | 24 Mar 1864 | sold to France 1867 | |||
| Muscoota | US Navy | gunboat | 1,370 | 5 Jan 1865 | sold 1869 as Tennessee, burned 1870 | |||
| Puritan | US Navy | ironclad | 4,912 | 5 Jan 1866 | sold 1922 | |||
| Cohoes | US Navy | ironclad | 1,175 | 19 Jan 1866 | scrapped 1874 | |||
| Nuevo Cubano | steamer | 42 | 1866 | foundered 1866 | ||||
| James Fisk, Jr. | Erie RR Co. | ferry | 755 | 1869 | later Passaic, Broadway 1910, deleted 1918 | |||
| Fulton | Union Ferry Co. | ferry | 647 | 1871 | retired 1917 | |||
| Farragut | Union Ferry Co. | ferry | 647 | 1871 | retired 1914 | |||
| Atlantic | Union Ferry Co. | ferry | 930 | 1885 | scrapped 1938 | |||
| Brooklyn | Union Ferry Co. | ferry | 930 | 1885 | later Irvington 1928, scrapped 1935 | |||
| General | Hudson River SB Co. | passenger | 332 | 1889 | scrapped 1934 | |||
| Monadnock | US Navy | ironclad | 3,990 | 1874 | hull built KD and shipped to Vallejo CA for assembly and outfitting: not completed until 1896 | |||