THOMAS and WILLIAM COLLYER

New York NY

Most recent update: August 26, 2021.
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 send it to me at timcolton@aol.com. 
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