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WESTERVELT & SON New York NY |
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Most recent update: January 23, 2013. |
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| Jakob Westervelt was the son of a successful builder. He began his career in 1814 as an apprentice in Christian Bergh's shipyard at the foot of Gouverneur Street, leaving in 1835 to start his own operation. The original yard was at Corlear's Hook, but he moved to Lewis and Seventh Streets in 1844, where the soccer field and running track in East River Park are today. Over the course of its 30-year existence, Westervelt built 243 ships, the early ones being sailing ships, the later being steamships, but he never converted to iron shipbuilding. In the later years, Westervelt owned many of the ships he built, with the result that the war losses and the post-war collapse essentially bankrupted him and the yard closed in 1868. 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 |
| Baltimore | Second Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 658 | 1836 | Sold 1853 | |||
| Mediator | Black X Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 660 | 1836 | ||||
| Oneida | Second Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 791 | 1841 | Wrecked 1849 | |||
| St. Nicholas | Second Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 797 | 1841 | Sank 1861 | |||
| Prince Albert | Red Swallowtail Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 884 | 1843 | Sank 1853 | |||
| American Eagle | Black X Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 1,049 | 1846 | ||||
| Margaret Evans | E. E. Morgan | Full-Rigged Ship | 1846 | |||||
| Washington | Ocean SN Co | Steamer | 1,640 | 1847 | ||||
| West Point | Red Star Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 1,046 | 1847 | Inactive 1863 | |||
| Hermann | Ocean SN Co | Steamer | 1,734 | 1848 | Wrecked in Japan 1869 | |||
| St. Denis | Second Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 959 | 1848 | Foundered 1856 | |||
| Constellation | Red Star Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 1,534 | 1849 | ||||
| Gold Hunter | William Skiddy | Steamer | 436 | 1849 | Later USC+GS ship Active | |||
| Columbia | Pacific Mail SS Co | Steamer | 777 | 1850 | ||||
| Francis P. Sage | Full-Rigged Ship | 1,200 | 1850 | |||||
| Franklin | Havre Line | Steamer | 2,183 | 1850 | Lost 1854 | |||
| Louisiana | Charles Morgan | Steamer | 1,056 | 1850 | Burnt in Galveston 1857 | |||
| Mexico | Passenger | 840 | 1850 | |||||
| Ocean Queen | Black X Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 1,182 | 1850 | Sank 1856 | |||
| William Tell | Second Line | Full-Rigged Ship | 1,153 | 1850 | Wrecked 1866 | |||
| Aramingo | Chamberlain & Phelps | Clipper Ship | 716 | 1851 | ||||
| Eureka | Chambers & Heiser | Clipper Ship | 1,041 | 1851 | ||||
| Golden Gate | Chambers & Heiser | Clipper Ship | 1,349 | 1851 | ||||
| Havre | Havre Line | Steamer | 2,700 | 1851 | ||||
| Hornet | Chamberlain & Phelps | Clipper Ship | 1,426 | 1851 | Burned and sank 1866 | |||
| Humboldt | Havre Line | Steamer | 2,181 | 1851 | Wrecked in Halifax 1853 | |||
| Mercury | Boyd & Hinckin's Line of Havre packets | Clipper Ship | 1,351 | 1851 | ||||
| N. B. Palmer | A. A. Low & Bro. | Clipper Ship | 1,399 | 1851 | Abandoned 1892 | |||
| Roanoke | NY & Virginia SS Co | Steamer | 1,071 | 1851 | Burned by CSA 1864 | |||
| Winfield Scott | Davis, Brooks & Co | Steamer | 1,291 | 1851 | Wrecked 1853 | |||
| Contest | A.A. Low & Brother | Clipper Ship | 1,098 | 1852 | Burnt by CSA 1863 | |||
| Golden City | Chambers & Heiser | Clipper Ship | 810 | 1852 | ||||
| Golden State | A.A. Low & Brother | Clipper Ship | 1,363 | 1852 | ||||
| Reindeer | Charles Morgan | Steamer | 827 | 1852 | Burnt 1856 | |||
| Cortes (ex-Saratoga) | Davis, Brooks & Co | Steamer | 1,117 | 1852 | Destroyed by fire, Shanghai, China, 1865 | |||
| Unknown | Patriotic Line | 1852 | ||||||
| Calhoun | 1852 | |||||||
| Jamestown | NY & Virginia SS Co | Steamer | 1,300 | 1853 | Sunk by CSA 1862 | |||
| Kathay | Goodhue & Co. | Clipper Ship | 1,438 | 1853 | ||||
| Resolute | A.A. Low & Brother | Clipper Ship | 786 | 1853 | ||||
| Sweepstakes | Chambers & Heiser | Clipper Ship | 1,500 | 1853 | Scrapped 1862 | |||
| Charles Morgan | Charles Morgan | Steamer | 1,215 | 1854 | Exploded 1862 | |||
| Orizaba | Charles Morgan | Steamer | 1,335 | 1854 | Scrapped, 1887 | |||
| Santa Anna | Steamer | 536 | 1854 | Later cutter Cuyahoga | ||||
| Sonora | Pacific Mail SS Co | Steamer | 1,616 | 1854 | Scrapped, 1868 | |||
| St. Louis | Pacific Mail SS Co | Steamer | 1,621 | 1854 | Scrapped 1878 | |||
| Arago | Havre Line | Steamer | 2,240 | 1855 | Sold to Peru 1869 | |||
| Zephyr | Chamberlain & Phelps | Clipper Ship | 534 | 1855 | ||||
| Huntsville | H. B. Cromwell & Co | Steamer | 817 | 1858 | Burnt 1877 | |||
| Montgomery | H. B. Cromwell & Co | Steamer | 787 | 1858 | Sunk in collision 1877 | |||
| Ocean Queen | Morgan & Garrison | 2,801 | 1858 | Scrapped, 1875 | ||||
| Queen of the Pacific | Morgan & Garrison | Steamer | 2,801 | 1858 | Later Ocean Queen, scrapped 1875 | |||
| Brooklyn | US Navy | Screw Sloop | 2,532 | 1859 | Sold 1891 | |||
| John P. King | Spofford, Tileston & Co | Steamer | 1,517 | 1860 | Laid up 1885 | |||
| Peruano | Peruvian owners | 570 | 1860 | |||||
| Rhode Island | Steamer | 2,000 | 1860 | |||||
| Ottawa | US Navy | Gunboat | 691 | 1861 | Sold 1865 | |||
| Eagle | Spofford, Tileston & Co | Steamer | 1,385 | 1862 | ||||
| Otsego | US Navy | Gunboat | 974 | 1863 | Sunk by mine 1864 | |||
| Hudson City | Morgan X Line | Packet | 1863 | |||||
| Kankakee | US Revenue Service | Cutter | 350 | 1864 | Sold 1867 | |||
| Morro Castle | Steamer | 1,987 | 1864 | |||||
| Plymouth Rock | Steamer | 2,379 | 1864 | Later Foong Shuey | ||||
| Favorita | 865 | 1865 | ||||||
| Niagara | NY-Richmond | Steamer | 1,100 | 1865 | ||||
| Saratoga | NY-Richmond | Steamer | 1,100 | 1865 | ||||
| Chesapeake | Steamer | |||||||
| Eusiyama | Govt. of Japan | |||||||
| Guadalquivar | Govt. of Spain | |||||||
| Hope | Govt. of Greece | |||||||
| Rhine | Full-Rigged Ship | |||||||
| Waterloo | 893 | |||||||