Thomas and William Collyer, New York NY
Thomas Collyer and William Collyer were brothers who had started in shipbuilding up the Hudson River. In 1844 they went into a partnership, in a shipyard in Manhattan, at the foot of 12th Street. In 1847, however, they dissolved the partnership, with William staying put and Thomas moving to a yard at the foot of 21st Street. Both continued to build ships until the end of the Civil War. The table below is clearly incomplete: if anyone has any data to add to it, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.
Most recent update: 26 August 2021.
| Hull # | O.N. | Original Name | Original Owner | Type | GT | Feet | Built | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built by Thomas Collyer | ||||||||
| 1706 | Armenia | Hudson River Day Line | Sidewheel | 398 | 1847 | Burnt in Alexandria VA 1886 | ||
| Bienville | C. & R. Poillon | Sidewheel | 986 | 1851 | United States 1852, sold to Cuban owners in 1855 and renamed Mexico | |||
| Caribbean/El Dorado | U.S. Mail SS Co | Sidewheel | 1,049 | 1851 | Scrapped 1857 | |||
| Confucius | Sidewheel | 468 | 1853 | Sold foreign 1855 | ||||
| Spirit of the Times | Griswold & Co | Clipper Ship | 1,200 | 1853 | ||||
| Peiho | Russell & Co | Sidewheel | 1,113 | 1859 | Later Takiang, foundered in Japan 1869 | |||
| White Cloud | Sidewheel | 520 | 1859 | Later Pak Yun | ||||
| Hankow | Forbes & Co. | Sidewheel | 800 | 1861 | Sold foreign 1863, burnt 1865 | |||
| 10524 | Honduras | Sidewheel | 375 | 1861 | To USN 1863, later Governor Marvin, wrecked Key West 1870 | |||
| Shantung | Everett & Co. | Sidewheel | 600 | 1862 | Sold foreign 1863 | |||
| 812 | Thomas Collyer | Alliance Machine Co. | Sidewheel | 506 | 1862 | To QMD 1863, later Antelope | ||
| Touitia | Russell & Co. | Sidewheel | 502 | 1862 | Sold foreign 1863 as Taoutai, | |||
| Built by William Collyer | ||||||||
| Reindeer | New Brunswick SB Co | Sidewheel | 790 | 1850 | Sunk by boiler explosion in Hudson R. 1852 | |||
| St. Lawrence | Sidewheel | 588 | 1850 | Sold foreign 1856 | ||||
| 17979 | General Bragg | Charles Morgan | Screw | 1,043 | 1851 | Later CSS General Bragg, captured 1862, sold as Mexico 1865 | ||
| Sierra Nevada | Empire City Line | Sidewheel | 1,246 | 1852 | Wrecked on a reef south of Monterey 1869 | |||
| Black Warrior | NY & Mobile SS Co | Sidewheel | 1,350 | 1852 | Wrecked off Rockaway 1859 | |||
| 10044 | George Law | Thomas Collyer | Sidewheel | 228 | 1852 | Burnt off NJ 1894 | ||
| Texas | Empire City Line | Steamer | 1,246 | 1852 | Grounded and wrecked off San Simeon, CA, 1869 | |||
| Panama | N.L. & G. Griswold | Clipper Ship | 1,139 | 1853 | ||||
| 4862 | Cahawba | Sidewheel | 1,643 | 1854 | To QMD 1864 | |||
| Mercury | Sidewheel | 187 | 1854 | To USN 1861 | ||||
| Nashville | Spofford, Tileston & Co | Sidewheel | 1,220 | 1854 | Later CSS Nashville, Thomas L. Wragg, CSS Rattlesnake, destroyed 1863 | |||
| NY & Mobile SS Co | Steamer | 1,350 | 1854 | |||||
| Jacob Duryea | Barge | 1854 | ||||||
| Alice C. Price | Sidewheel | 283 | 1854 | To War Dept. 1863, sunk in Florida 1864 | ||||
| Josephine G. Collyer | Schooner | 1854 | ||||||
| Roebuck | Reynolds & Cushman | Clipper Ship | 456 | 1856 | ||||
| 4888 | Columbia | Spofford, Tileston & Co | Sidewheel | 1,347 | 1857 | Scrapped 1876 | ||
| 7717 | Dawn | George Savory, et al. | Sidewheel | 387 | 1857 | To USN 1861, later Eutaw, wrecked off NJ 1869 | ||
| 19542 | Western World | Sidewheel | 441 | 1857 | To USN 1861, later Petersburg, | |||
| Yangtsze | Russell & Co | Sidewheel | 1,003 | 1857 | Sold foreign 1861 | |||
| Fire-Dart | Heard & Co. | Sidewheel | 660 | 1860 | Sold foreign 1866 | |||
| 27577 | Yankee | Sdewheel | 376 | 1860 | To USN 1861, sold foreign 1871 | |||
| 16795 | Monohansett | New Bedford & Edgartown SB Co | Sidewheel | 450 | 1865 | Wrecked off Salem MA 1904 | ||