AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING

Philadelphia PA

Most recent update: May 18, 2016.
American Shipbuilding Company - no connection with the AmShip yards on the Great Lakes - was organized by Henry Honeychurch Gorringe in 1883, failed in 1884 and was liquidated in 1885.  In its short life, it nevertheless turned out 16 vessels.  If anyone has any data to add to the table below, please send it to timcolton@aol.com.
Hull # O.N. Original Name Original Owner Vessel Type GT Feet Delivery Disposition
1 145351  T. F. Oakes William H. Starbuck Ship 1,996   Oct-83 New York 1897, wrecked 1898 in Half Moon Bay CA
2     New York owner Tug     188?  
3 126195  Clarence S. Bement Jacob E. Ridgway  Ship 1,998   Jan-84 Burned 1903 off Port Edgar
4     New York owner Tug     188?  
 5 ? 145381  Transit Philadelphia owner  Tug 148   1884 Abandoned 1942
6 110624 Red Wing David W. Johnson  Schooner 437   Apr-84  
7 Spain Antonio Lopez F. Latasa & Co (Cuba) Tug 68   Dec-83 To Spanish Navy 1895
8   Jonathan Knight Capitain Malloy  Schooner 1,200   1884 Wrecked 1884
9 76485  J. H. Rutter N.Y.Central & H.R. RR  Tug 103   1884 New York Central No. 9 1901, G. C. Cleveland 1915, William J. Tracy 1920, dismantled 1951 
10 120591  Frostburg Consolidation Coal Co Freighter 926   Jul-84 Theodore Weems 1907, in collision and sank 1915
11     Bowery Dumping Co Dump barge     188?  
12     Smith & Ziegler Freighter     188?  
13     South American owner  Stern-wheeler     188?  
14   Heroe South American owner Side-wheeler     Jun-84  
15 95800 Hygeia Galveston Health Auth. Passenger 47   1884  
16 126269  Chatham Merchants & MinersCo  Passenger 2,728   Sep-84 To USN 1898 as Vulcan, later Chatham 1899, wrecked 1910 off Jacksonville