Hillman Ship & Engine Building
Philadelphia PA
Most recent update: May 19, 2016.
Hillman & Streaker was established in the 1840s and merged with Birely & Sons in 1866. Charles Hillman and his sons bought out Birely and Streaker in 1888 and changed the name to Hillman Ship & Engine Building. A Navy contract bankrupted them in 1899 and the property was acquired by Cramp. The yard was located at the foot of Montgomery Avenue, in Kensington, just downstream from Cramp's yard. See it from the air on Google here: you can still see the layout of the yard.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| Built by Hillman & Streaker | ||||||||
| Parker Vein | freighter | 460 | 1853 | Atlanta 1857, to USN 1858 as Sumter | ||||
| Itasca | US Navy | gunboat | 691 | 1861 | ||||
| Rattlesnake Shoal (LV 30) | U.S. Lighthouse Service | lightship | 232 | 1863 | sold 1872 | |||
| Pontiac | US Navy | gunboat | 1,173 | 1864 | sold 1867 | |||
| Built by John Birely, Jacob Birely and/or Birely & Lynn | ||||||||
| 17009 | Mount Vernon | passenger freighter | 500 | 1846 | to USN 1861 as Mount Washington, abandoned 1880 | |||
| 26157 | Western Port | passenger freighter | 453 | 1853 | to USN 1859 as Wyandotte, sold 1865, stranded 1866 off Duxbury | |||
| 9435 | Phineas Sprague | passenger freighter | 938 | 1857 | to USN 1861 as Flag, sold 1865, abandoned 1876 | |||
| Sciota | US Navy | gunboat | 691 | 1861 | ||||
| Built by Birely, Hillman & Streaker | ||||||||
| Relief | U.S. Revenue Service | cutter | 120 | 1867 | ||||
| rescue | U.S. Revenue Service | cutter | 120 | 1867 | sold 1874 | |||
| St. Michel | Govt. of Haiti | gunboat | 1875 | |||||
| 1804 | Govt. of Haiti | gunboat | 1875 | |||||
| Lucy P. Miller | J. M. Miller et al | freighter | 533 | 1878 | wrecked off Petit Manan 1893 | |||
| Santo Domingo | T. Clyde | freighter | 1,880 | 1878 | later Yemassee 1987, barge 1907 | |||
| Habanero | Michelena & Galbany | freighter | 498 | 1879 | later Triton 1888, wrecked between Dominica & Mariel 1897 | |||
| Wanderer | J. W. Black & others | freighter | 531 | 1879 | later Atlantic 1900, barge 1906 | |||
| Delaware | W. P. Clyde & Co | freighter | 1,646 | 1880 | burned & sank off NJ 1898 | |||
| City of Richmond | Virginia Steamboat Co | passenger | 1,001 | 1880 | later Wm. C. Egerton 1892, Glen Island 1997, burned off Matinicock Point, Long Island Sound 1904 | |||
| Goldsboro' | W. P. Clyde & Co | freighter | 681 | 1882 | wrecked on Brandywine Shoal 1912 | |||
| Built by Hillman Ship & Engine Building | ||||||||
| Maracaibo | Atlantic & Caribbean SN Co | passenger freighter | 1,262 | 1889 | wrecked 1898 | |||
| Pawnee | Clyde & Co | freighter | 1,801 | 1890 | burned 1899 | |||
| 86151 | Gay Head | New Bedford etc SS Co | passenger | 701 | 1891 | later Pastime 1925, scrapped 1931 | ||
| 107008 | Anthony Groves, Jr. | Balto & Phila SN Co | passenger | 605 | 1893 | later Tarco #1 1937, scrapped 1947 | ||
| 81437 | William E. Doron | 171 | 1893 | |||||
| 3602 | Bristol | 48 | 1893 | |||||
| John Reese | 57 | 1894 | ||||||
| 150710 | Paoli | Staples Coal Co | tugboat | 330 | 1895 | scrapped 1934 | ||
| 136531 | Endeavor | Denny Bros. | passenger | 315 | 1896 | burned 1924 | ||
| Winthrop | Staples Coal Co | tugboat | 352 | 1896 | to USN 1898 as Osceola, AT-47 1920, Winthrop 1924, foundered 1947 | |||
| 111443 | Radiant | 89 | 1896 | |||||
| 116755 | St. Louis | Pennsylvania RR Co | ferry | 1,273 | 1896 | scrapped 1944 | ||
| 86383 | G. F. Brady | 182 | 1897 | |||||
| 150768 | Pencoyd | 119 | 1897 | |||||
| 130757 | New Brunswick | Pennsylvania RR Co | ferry | 1,273 | 1898 | scrapped 1951 | ||
| Gypsum King | J. B. King Transportation | tugboat | 581 | 1898 | later Slocum 1898, scrapped 1946 | |||
| 353 | 136692 | Eureka | Staples Coal Co | tugboat | 353 | 1898 | scrapped 1950 | |
| 127289 | Concord | Staples Coal Co | tugboat | 353 | 1898 | to USN 1920 as Mendota (YT-33), Muscotah 1932, scrapped 1937 | ||
| 81632 | Waltham | Staples Coal Co | tugboat | 299 | 1898 | later Dauntless No. 10 1934, Wathen 1946, Sally R 1953 | ||
| National | 157 | 1898 | ||||||
| 145805 | Tacony | Staples Coal Co | tugboat | 353 | 1898 | later F. H. Chappell 1921, scrapped 1940 | ||
| Margaret | dredge | 338 | 1899 | |||||
| 130809 | Nellie M. Gazzam | 37 | 1899 | |||||
| Mackenzie (TB 17) | US Navy | torpedo boat | 65 | 1899 | sunk as target 1916 | |||