HENRY STEERS

Greenpoint NY

Most recent update: May 24, 2016.

James R. and George Steers were the sons of a naval architect who had worked in the Royal Naval Dockyard in Plymouth before emigrating and working in the Washington Navy Yard.  They started their shipyard at the foot of 12th Street, in Manhattan, in 1850 but it closed in 1856 after George's death.  James' nephew Henry had begun his career working for his uncle but now started his own yard, relocating to Greenpoint in 1859.  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 Ship Type GT Feet Built Disposition
Built by James R. & George Steers
Sunny South Napier, Johnson & Co. Clipper Ship 776   1854 Wrecked off Mozambique 1861
Niagara Collins Line Psgr/Cargo     1855  
Adriatic Collins Line Psgr/Cargo 3,650   1856 Hulked 1873, scrapped 1885
Built by Henry Steers
Charles H. Marshall         1857  
Seth Grosvenor   Psgr/Cargo 68   1860 Foundered 1861
Che-Kiang Russell & Co. Steamer 1,265   1862 Burnt 1864 in Hankow
Foh-Kien Forbes & Co. Steamer 1,947   1862 Stranded 1865 near Chinhae
Hu-Quang Forbes & Co. Steamer 1,339   1862 Burnt 1866 in Kiukiang
Retribution Marshall O. Roberts Steamer 2,767   1863 Renamed Golden Rule, stranded 1865 on Roncador Reef
800 Arizona Pacific Mail SS Co Steamer 2,793   1865 Scrapped 1877
6529 Nicaragua William H. Webb Steamer 2,145   1865 Renamed Dakota, abandoned 1886
10527 Great Republic Pacific Mail SS Co Steamer 3,882   1866 Largest wooden-hulled ship ever built, stranded 1879 on the Columbia River bar
na Idaho US Navy Cruiser 3,241   1866 Sold 1874
Alaska Pacific Mail SS Co Steamer 4,011   1867 Storage hulk in Acapulco 1882, scrapped 1886
13899 Japan Pacific Mail SS Co Steamer 4,352   1868 Burnt 1874 in Yokohama
America Pacific Mail SS Co Steamer 4,400   1869 Burnt 1872 in Yokohama
Rhode Island Providence & Stonington SS Co Ferry 2,742   1873 Wrecked 1880
90973 Massachusetts Providence & Wilmington SS Co Ferry 2,607   1876 Scrapped 1903