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Neafie & Levy

Philadelphia PA

Most recent update: March 22, 2020.

Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Company was one of the earliest iron shipbuilders and the chief rival to William Cramp in 19th-century Philadelphia. It was started in 1844 by Thomas Reaney, Jacob Neafie and William Smith; Smith died in 1845 and John Levy took his place; Reaney left in 1859 to start his own shipyard in Chester and from then on it was Neafie & Levy, until it closed in 1907. The shipyard was located in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, on land now occupied by a Philadelphia Electric power plant: the plant's pier is believed to date from the site's days as a shipyard. See it from the air on Google here. The table below lists about 250 vessels but their hull numbers reached 1000.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
Conestoga Balto and Phila SB Co. canal boat 65 1844 abandoned 1856
Tecumseh 198 1844
San Juan 1844
Apure Orinoco SS Co. steamboat 269 1844 sold foreign 1850
Barclay Rancocas SB Co. steamboat 99 1845 abandoned 1882
Governor Moorhead 1852
Montezuma 1852
Orinoco steamboat 171 1852 sold foreign 1856
Rancocas Rancocas SB Co. steamboat 133 1852 abandoned 1866
Boardman No. 1 1855
Boardman No. 2 1855
Decatur tugboat 45 1855 abandoned 1860
11547 Henry L. Gaw steamboat 381 165 1855 abandoned 1910
13881 Jacob G. Neafie tugboat 103 55 1856 abandoned 1876
7902 Elizabeth steamboat 404 176 1857 abandoned 1897
9195 Fanny Cadwalader steamboat 836 159 1857 abandoned 1907
James Gray tugboat 161 1857 to CSN 1861 as Lady Davis, captured 1865, sold 1868
13435 John P. Levy tugboat 59 77 1857 abandoned 1898
Major Henry Brewerton B. & O. RR Co. tugboat 1857
19084 Octorara steamboat 356 154 1859 abandoned 1899
Sagua steamboat 187 1859 sold foreign 1859
Amcor 1860
1639 Arasapha steamboat 374 130 1860 Lighter 1893
5041 Cotton Plant steamboat 85 1860 Surrendered by CSN 1865, barge 1881
General Winfield Scott steamboat 1,162 1860 sunk 1861
Ounalaska 1860
19539 Pacific tugboat 49 73 1860 abandoned 1922
150344 Philadelphia passenger 504 1860 sunk 1874
Russia steamship 1860
Siberia steamship 1860
Union steamship 1,124 1860 sunk 1861
36851 William Woodward steamboat 342 154 1860 abandoned 1899
Oriental steamship 1,202 1860 stranded 1862 off Body Island
15076 General Meigs steamship 329 1862 to USAQMD 1863, Lavaca 1865, sold foreign 1877
10602 General S. Van Vliet steamship 44 66 1862 abandoned 1891
13428 Josephine Thompson steamship 376 155 1862 abandoned 1900
Pocahontas steamship 716 1862 sold to govt. 1863
Alligator US Navy submarine 350 1862 lost in a storm 1863
344 4250 Charles Pearson Boston towboat tugboat 392 1863 to USN 1918 as Adirondack (YT-44), Underwriter 1925
Dashing Wave tugboat 38 1863 abandoned 1866
11483 Havana steamship 1,347 1863 sold foreign 1868
2423 Bandy Moore steamship 175 1866 abandoned 1878
13486 Julia Saint Clair steamship 174 1866 abandoned 1882
12493 Ida tugboat 39 64 1870
95126 Henry Wellman tugboat 38 67 1871 Julia C. Moran 1918, scrapped 1936
23979 Seminole passenger 78 77 1871
90378 Mary Louisa passenger 87 86 1872
5979 Cynthia passenger 99 96 1872
115017 Sallie tugboat 27 58 1872
95168 H. G. Tisdale tugboat 81 94 1872
105147 Alfred and Edwin ferry 102 99 1872
Ethel 34 1872
564 75382 J. G. Witherbee 114 109 1872
80361 W. E. Gladwish James McWilliams tugboat 121 115 1873
14292 Knickerbocker Cornell SB Co. tugboat 124 103 1873 later SP-479
Young America tugboat 78 1873 later James A. Dumont
20566 Quaker City Schuyler Towing tugboat 72 72 1873 William E. Ferguson 1891
125182 Convoy B. & O. RR Co. tugboat 78 89 1873
Dahlia U.S. Lighthouse Service LH tender 426 1874 sold 1909 as Flora M. Hill, sank 1912
100340 Ivanhoe tugboat 95 85 1875
80501 William S. Stokley police 83 96 1875
95471 Hunter passenger 155 109 1877 burned 1904
145167 transferred No. 1 NY, NH & Hartford RR tugboat 136 94 1878
145218 transferred No. 2 NY, NH & Hartford RR tugboat 101 92 1880
145426 transferred No. 3 NY, NH & Hartford RR tugboat 130 93 1880
85637 transferred No. 4 NY, NH & Hartford RR tugboat 102 92 1880 later George H. Watrous
115599 Startle 83 54 1878
135480 Ella Andrews 64 73 1879
76075 John E. Tygert 207 109 1879
130155 Neptune tugboat 145 106 1879
110407 Rattler tugboat 139 102 1879
666 Cuba Cuba Davila y Cia passenger freighter 938 1879 Argonauta 1886, Cocoa 1899, M. F. Plant 1903, Yukon 1912, wrecked 1913
80796 W. M. Wood tugboat 58 74 1880
91573 Maracaibo Atlantic & Caribbean SN passenger freighter 517 179 1880 Merida 1889, hulked 1911
105883 Atlantic Coopers Point & Phila ferry ferry 451 146 1880 Lawrence 1906, abandoned 1930
William A. Marburg 126 1881
Wm. E. Street Cornell Steamboat Co. tugboat 1881
692 125882 Conoho Roanoke, Norfolk & Balt SB ferry 367 162 1881 Alpha 1910, sold 1916 in Venezuela
702 80866 William T. Hart New York & New Eng. RR ferry 971 281 1881 scrapped 1908
703 3141 Battler tugboat 138 108 1880
Nat Wales tugboat 79 1881
115622 Storm King Boston Towboat Co. tugboat 182 110 1882
715 125994 Cynthia No. 2 Atlantic Towing Co. tugboat 108 92 1882 Cynthia 1959
140520 Leo 89 83 1882
126034 City of Alma 96 110 1882
80946 William J. Keyser 97 92 1882
730 110549 R. G. Townsend Cornell Steamboat Co. tugboat 183 82 1882
110588 Riverside tugboat 72 83 1883
145349 Louisville tugboat 87 83 1883 Thomas A. Bain, M. B. Coppedge 1956
81021 William Schaubel, Jr. yacht 45 1883
734 91527 Meteor passenger 424 162 1883 Brazoria 1910, wrecked Absecon Bar, NJ 1910
745 76417 J. C. Hartt Cornell Steamboat Co. tugboat 223 116 1883
768 3286 Bells barge 818 1884 scrapped 1902
Gov. Robert M. McLane 144 1884
155105 Ocean King Luckenbach Towing tugboat 201 109 1884
Mary W. Potter 148 1884
E. A. Burke 228 1885
3314 Bolivar Panama Canal Co. tugboat 234 127 1885 later Bayou Orleans, Port Comfort, Cappy Bisso, Capt Billy Slatten, Bolivar, Ann Marie, San Juan
95852 Haven Belle Rancocas Steamboat Co. passenger 119 85 1885
116066 S. A. McCauley tugboat 92 85 1885
91822 Minerva tugboat 38 57 1886
95873 Harry Schaubel, Jr. tugboat 34 57 1886
275 154377 Peerless Whitehall Transportation tugboat 90 1886 Edmund J. Moran 1916, A, B. Hall 1939, scrapped 1954
106453 Albert N. Hughes tugboat 92 83 1887
6362 Don Juan 48 72 1887
116141 Bay King 1 tugboat 52 67 1887 later Cavalier 1, Sommers N. Smith, Chee Chee
161574 Volunteer 97 83 1887
784 130350 Newburgh Ramsdell & Co passenger 1,034 200 1887 Nankasket 1930, scrapped 1952
795 Cuba Josefita Menendez & Cia passenger freighter 1,114 1887 Dade 1915, Marina 1917, scrapped 1935
106518 A. C. Rose B. & O. RR Co. tugboat 150 100 1888
135980 E. L. Levy Cornell Steamboat tugboat 142 1888 Mary F. Scully 1920, Chelsea 1921, Marion Moran 1925, Marion Kehoe 1948, scrapped
135990 Elizabeth Monroe Smith ferry 204 125 1888
804 126522 Corona Oregon Improvement freighter 1,492 221 1888 wrecked Humboldt Bay entrance 1907
9398 Bismarck Cahell Towing tugboat 124 95 1888
136052 E. C. Baker Lake Champlain Transportation tugboat 153 102 1889
3447 Brinton tugboat 103 83 1889
92145 Media tugboat 103 83 1889
818 3427 Britannia tugboat 135 96 1889 to USN as Reno, Ticeline 1950
819 106629 Asa W. Hughes James E. Hughes tugboat 106 85 1889 later Triton, Navajo 1982
823 126597 Charlotte Balt, Ches & Richmond SB passenger 1,747 229 1889 Dorothy Bradford 1911, scrapped 1937
827 100462 International F. L. Neall tugboat 400 130 1890 abandoned 1931
120808 Frank K. Esherick tugboat 69 68 1890
829 126635 City of Seattle Puget Sound & Alaska SS passenger 1,411 245 1890 scrapped 1937
830 106731 Atkins Hughes Atkins Hughes & Co. tugboat 115 89 1890 Phyllis 1942
76921 Jacob Paulsen Savannah Towing passenger 97 82 1890
76922 John G. McCulloch NY, Lake Erie & Western RR ferry 1,372 200 1891 Chautauqua 1905, Rutherford 1936, to USN 1943 as YFB-48, scrapped 1946
835 110655 Relief freighter 219 1891
837 Mexico Juan J. Vina tugboat 1890 later Panuco II
838 126777 Corsair J. P. Morgan yacht 560 1891 to USN 1898 as Gloucester, sold 1919
25281 Utowana W. W. Durant yacht 392 155 1891 deleted 1936
Primers Point 63 1891
849 150575 P. H. Wise Moran Towing tugboat 155 1892 to USN 1898 as Sioux (YT-19), Nyack 1918, J. Vincent O'Brien 1921, J. M. Taylor 1934
96163 Harry M. Wall Independent Pier Co. tugboat 60 65 1892
136345 Eva M. Wall Independent Pier Co. tugboat 62 65 1892
2937 B. D. Wood B. D. Wood & Bros. tugboat 304 1892
116500 Scranton tugboat 300 1892
854 Cuba Antinojenes Menendez Menendez & Co passenger 1,277 1892 St. Michael 1924, scrapped 1927
855 96172 Hartford Hartford & New York Transportation passenger 1,338 220 1892 Terry 1898, Charles H. Hackley 1901, Carolina 1907, scrapped 1937
857 3556 C. G. Coyle W. G. Coyle Co. tugboat 152 1892 to USN 1898 as Choctaw (YT-26), Wicomico 1918, scrapped 1940
860 150604 Plymouth Central RR of NJ tugboat 373 1892 collision off entrance to Cape Cod Canal 1938
100552 Invincible Charles T. Barney yacht 340 143 1893
3581 brigantine ferry 67 86 1893
126983 Colonel John F. Gaynor Robert R. Velie tugboat 153 91 1893 later Sparrows Point
867 141270 Long Island Shelter Island SB passenger 409 132 1893 Pemaquid 1902, to USAT as FS-98, scrapped 1972
96860 Honeybrook Central RR of NJ tugboat 373 1893 wrecked Salem harbor 1902
3634 Baltic tugboat 72 72 1894
120979 Frederica Frederica & Phila. Nav. Co. passenger 294 118 1894 sold 1930 as Erie Isle, dismantled 1946
145686 Trenton passenger 85 93 1894
870 150672 Potomac Maryland & Virginia SB passenger 763 177 1894 barge 1937, scrapped 1954
Cuba Purisima Concepcion Menendez y Cia passenger 1,349 1894 Cienfuegos 1923, Purisima Concepcion 1924, wrecked Havana 1926
872 136489 Eugene Hughes Hughes Bros. & Bangs tugboat 111 84 1895 later Fort McHenry
882 127074 Cape Ann Boston & Gloucester SB passenger 719 172 1895 Seminole 1918, last trace at Dakar 1940
885 157491 DeWitt C. Ivins Moran Towing tugboat 117 1895 to USN 1898 as Nezinscot, sank 1909
886 145704 Thomas Cunningham, Sr. tugboat 70 69 1895 later Tuff-E-Nuff, converted to yacht in Deland FL, reefed 2011
887 107200 Ashbourne Reading RR tugboat 115 88 1895
888 92699 Middletown Hartford & New York Transportation passenger 1,483 243 1896 scrapped 1937
127146 Columbia tugboat 84 77 1896
890 Cuba Reina de Los Angeles Menendez & Cia passenger 1,334 1896 Manzanillo 1924, Reina de los Angeles 1925, in collision and beached 1926
150768 Pencoyd Reading Co tugboat 115 88 1896
893 86365 Gwynedd Reading Co tugboat 115 88 1896
894 Mexico Donato Guerra lighthouse service buoy tender 400 1896 deleted 1910
896 Philadelphia Delaware Pilots Assn pilot boat 302 1896 to USN 1898 as Peoria (AT-48), YT-109, sold 1922, abandoned 1937
77268 John I. Brady tugboat 72 72 1897 Atlas 1927, J. J. McCarty 1949
107304 Annie L. Vansciver passenger 104 127 1897
Plymouth Boston & Plymouth SB freighter 428 1897 to USCG 1899 as Iris, Plymouth 1934, Big Chief 1938, B. O. Colonna 1956, scrapped 1973
136824 Ericsson Baltimore & Philadelphia SB passenger 897 108 1897 deleted 1946
127232 Clio passenger 217 108 1898
909 107350 Alfred W. Booth Moran Towing tugboat 117 85 1898 to USN 1898 as Massasoit (YT-15), W. H. Hoodless 1937, Gen Gillespie 1902, Morganza 1941
910 Philadelphia Delaware Pilots Assn pilot boat 359 1898
911 107408 Albert H. Ellis Moran Towing tugboat 117 85 1898 Bohemia 1905, O'Brien Girls 1923, Harry A. Collier 1943, scrapped 1955
912 155330 O. L. Halenbeck Peter Cahill tugboat 198 103 1898 Maryland 1947
913 116875 Swatara Reading Co tugboat 625 157 1899 scrapped 1936
914 81642 Walter A. Luckenbach Luckenbach Towing tugboat 434 1899 Luckenbach No. 3 1916, Montauk 1917, A. L. Bisso 1920, foundered New Orleans 1947
916 81638 Waban W. G. Revel tugboat 163 91 1899
918 DD-1 Bainbridge US Navy destroyer 420d 1902 sold 1920
919 DD-2 Barry US Navy destroyer 420d 1902 sold 1920
920 DD-3 Chauncey US Navy destroyer 420d 1902 collision and sank off Gibraltar 1917
921 116895 Syosset Long Island RR Co. tugboat 176 103 1899
922 127346 Cheltenham Reading Co tugboat 113 84 1899
923 141606 Lykens Reading Co tugboat 625 157 1899 to USN 1917 as AT-56, scrapped 1934
924 107520 Augusta Balt, Ches & Richmond SB passenger 2,372 245 1900 Transmotor 1926, scrapped
77365 Josephine P. A. B. Widener yacht 974 215 1899
926 136776 Edward Luckenbach Luckenbach Towing tugboat 401 135 1896 to USN as Tecumseh (YT-24) 1898, wrecked off False Cape NC 1915
927 155368 Ogontz Reading Co tugboat 113 84 1899
928 111261 Richmond Coastwise S.S. Co tugboat 401 135 1900 Sunshine 1936, foundered Alameda 1938
929 127397 Covington Coastwise S.S. Co tugboat 401 135 1900 John T. Donahue 1924, scrapped 1934
930 130855 Northumberland Weems S.S.Co passenger 993 190 1900 Norfolk 1937, burned Claremont VA 1945
157564 DeWitt C. Ivins Moran Towing tugboat 121 85 1900 S. O. Co. No. 7 1900, S. T. Co. No. 7 1915, Socony 7 1917, Mercury 1943
933 93023 Michael Moran Moran Towing tugboat 121 85 1900 Tickfaw 1911
934 C-14 Denver US Navy cruiser 3,200d 1904 later PG-28, then CL-16, sold 1933
937 117005 Spartan F. W. Munn & Co tugboat 358 121 1900 wrecked 6nm NW Delaware breakwater 1903
938 121152 Fred E. Richards Rockport & Rockland Lime tugboat 357 121 1900 John A. McCormick 1936, trawler East Coast 1960, deleted 1972
940 150900 Penllyn Reading Co tugboat 137 86 1901
941 28146 Zulia Atlantic & Carib. SN Co passenger freighter 1,713 266 1901 wrecked E Los Roques 1925 (or BU 1931)
945 145897 Texas Sinclair Refining tugboat 220 103 1901 Roy Hoober 1947
20633 Quaker City Wilmington Steamboat Co passenger 469 156 1901 Sieur de Monts 1905, MAJ L'Enfant 1918, Sieur de Monts 1922, Gen Mathews 1923, NLD 1949
127534 City of Trenton Wilmington Steamboat Co passenger 458 156 1901 Sagamore 1902, Princeton 1916, Pinero 1927, deleted 1987
107676 Anna W National Dredging tugboat 204 103 1901
161800 Vigilant Atlantic Refining tugboat 226 110 1901
950 127578 Carlisle Reading Co tugboat 644 157 1901 scrapped 1940
951 C-20 St. Louis US Navy cruiser 9,700d 1906 later CA-18, scrapped 1930
952 127606 Calvert Weems Steamboat passenger 889 180 1902 scrapped 1957
955 93331 Middlesex Weems Steamboat passenger 1,197 200 1902 Plymouth 1930, Manhattan 1937, burned Staten Island 1939
957 96646 Harry G. Runkle Booth, Dailey & Ivins tugboat 164 91 1902 Julia C. Moran 1906, Hilton 1916, Sampson 1933, deleted 1941
96649 H. B. Chamberlain Booth, Dailey & Ivins tugboat 164 91 1902 Gatun 1907, Point Breeze, Chester 1934
959 96660 Honeybrook Central RR of New Jersey tugboat 373 126 1902 hulked 1943, scrapped 1964
961 117219 S. O. Company No. 14 Standard Oil Co. tugboat 164 91 1902 Jupiter 1939
962 117220 S. O. Company No. 15 Standard Oil Co. tugboat 164 91 1903 S. T. Co. No. 15 1915, Socony 15 1918, Maurice Tracey 1932, Pocahontas 1932
963 86656 Gulfport Texas & Gulf Island Towing tugboat 224 102 1902
127682 Charles E. Matthews Booth, Dailey & Ivins tugboat 164 91 1903 Eugene F. Moran 1906, H.S. 46 1916, foundered off NJ 1917
3955 Brilliant Atlantic Refining tugboat 81 74 1903
111443 Radiant Atlantic Refining tugboat 81 74 1903
967 111453 Roselle Central RR of New Jersey tugboat 220 98 1903 Fearless 1936, Nonpareil 1956
J. M. Woodworth U.S.P.H.S. tugboat 135 1903 to USN 1937 as YT-137, sold 1939
155463 Ocean City Reading Co ferry 665 157 1903 Nyack 1923, scrapped 1936
971 200156 Flemington Central RR of NJ tugboat 220 98 1903
972 200168 Freehold Central RR of NJ tugboat 220 98 1903
973 200439 Astral Standard Oil Co tugboat 616 157 1903 Standard II 1916, P. F. Martin 1930, deleted 1951
200440 Governor Pennypacker yacht 132 1903
975 200586 Wyomissing Phila. & Reading Co. tugboat 222 105 1904
976 Col George Armistead US Army minelayer 447 150 1904 Mary Foss 1935, to USN 1942 as Dekanawida (YT-334), Agnes Foss 1947, Celtic 1972, NLD 1987
977 Maj Samuel Ringgold US Army minelayer 447 150 1904 Sea Salvor 1924, scrapped 1948
978 Gen Henry Knox US Army minelayer 447 150 1904 Chan Hing 1926, Vincent Davin 1931, wrecked Song Ca River 1937
979 Col Henry J. Hunt US Army minelayer 447 150 1904
980 201177 P. R. R. No. 4 Pennsylvania RR tugboat 121 75 1904
983 201217 Eugene F. Moran Moran Towing tugboat 200 96 1904 Colima 1906, Qualicum 1911, scuttled as breakwater 1946
985 201268 Catherine Moran Moran Towing tugboat 213 96 1904 Cocoli 1907, scrapped 1937
986 201335 John P. Wilson Lebanon Tptn Co passenger 350 131 1904 Merchant 1917, Westchester 1929, scrapped 1938
987 201593 S. O. Company No. 11 Standard Oil Co. tugboat 129 82 1904 S. T. Co. No. 11 1916, Socony 11 1918, Carroll 1945, Marianne 1951
988 201594 Atlantic Atlantic Refining Co. tugboat 129 82 1904 Carrolton 1945, Salutation 1949
Gen Thomas S. Jessup US Army Transportation Corps passenger 280 110 1904
Gen Robert Swartout US Army Transportation Corps passenger 280 110 1905
Gen R. N. Batchelder US Army Transportation Corps passenger 280 110 1905
Gen Timothy Pickering US Army Transportation Corps passenger 280 110 1905 sold 1932 and converted to tanker RTC No. 7, (ON 232146), RTC No. 10, to USN 1942, returned 1945, Gladys Ann
992 202008 Protector Whitehall Transportation tugboat 176 102 1905 Eugene F. Moran 1917
202812 Onrust Hartford & NY Transportation tugboat 95 72 1906
202845 Manhattan New England Fish tugboat 291 129 1905
203547 Edmund Moran Moran Towing tugboat 102 72 1906 Camden 1912, Venus 1947
203626 Victory Victory Tug LLC tugboat 96 68 1906 Agnes A. Moran 1934, Rose 1940, scrapped 2012
203794 Norfolk passenger 99 76 1907
1004 203969 Machigonne Harpswell Steamboat Co passenger 425 136 1907 Hook Mountain 1929, Block Island 1940, to USN 1941 as League Island (YFB-20), sold 1948 as Yankee
1005 204233 Boothbay Eastern S.S. Co freighter 334 126 1907 Grampus 1920, Deepwater 1931, Liberty (YFB-53) 1941, Island Queen II 1965, Provincetown 1966, St. Thomas 1967
1006 204193 General Hubbard Hammond Lumber tugboat 412 130 1907 to USN 1908 as Navajo, AT-52, IX-56, sold 1937, scrapped 1948
1007 204294 Gwalia Balt & Boston Barge Co tugboat 415 130 1907 foundered Gulf of Mexico 1925
1009 204360 Lizzie D W. J. Conway tugboat 122 78 1907 sunk off NJ 1922
1011 204605 Bern Reading Railroad tugboat 224 105 1907 Saturn 1956, Muriel McAllister 1980, Saturn 1995
204735 Belhaven Wood Towing tugboat 96 78 1907 Kevin Moran 1928, Saint Joseph 1941
205816 Adriatic tugboat 113 78 1907 Eileen McAllister 1950

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