New York Ship was established in 1900 by Henry G. Morse, with the financial support of Andrew Mellon and Henry Frick. It was designed as a state-of-the-art shipyard and was called New York Shipbuilding because it was originally intended to be located on Staten Island. In 1916, it was bought by American International Corp. and W. R. Grace, and expanded for the war effort, but it struggled in the post-war years and was sold to American Brown Boveri in 1925. The yard was fully operational as World War II approached and the Navy invested $25 million to expand its capability. At its peak, New York Ship employed 30,000 people. It continued in both naval and merchant shipbuilding after WWII but closed in 1967. The shipyard was just upstream from the Walt Whitman Bridge: it is now part of the Port of Camden. See the site from the air on Google here.
| Hull # | USSB, USMC or MARAD Hull # | Original Name | Original Owner | Ship Type | Gov't. Type or Design Code | Pennant # | GT (d=LDT) | Delivered | Disposition |
| 1 | M. S. Dollar/J. M. Guffey | Dollar Line | Cargo Ship | 2,520 | 2-Jun-02 | Converted to tanker before delivery, to USN as SP 1279, later Meloria 1926, scrapped 1935 | |||
| 2 | Texan | American Hawaiian S.S. Co. | Cargo Ship | 8,515 | 29-Oct-02 | Torpedoed and lost 1942 | |||
| 3 | Nevadan | American Hawaiian S.S. Co. | Cargo Ship | 4,409 | 19-Apr-02 | Later Alamance 1916, torpedoed and lost 1918 | |||
| 4 | Nebraskan | American Hawaiian S.S. Co. | Cargo Ship | 4,409 | 12-Jul-02 | Later Rockingham 1916, torpedoed and lost 1917 | |||
| 5 | Minnelora/Mongolia | Pacific Mail S.S. Co. | Passenger/Cargo | 13,639 | 8-Feb-04 | Later President Fillmore 1929, Panamanian 1940, scrapped 1949 | |||
| 6 | Minnekahda/Manchuria | Pacific Mail S.S. Co. | Passenger/Cargo | 13,639 | 25-May-04 | Later President Johnson 1928, Santa Cruz 194, scrapped 1952 | |||
| 7 | Massachusetts | Atlantic Transport Co. | Passenger/Cargo | 7,913 | 5-Feb-03 | Later Kansan 1911, sunk by a mine 1917 | |||
| 8 | Mississippi | Atlantic Transport Co. | Passenger/Cargo | 7,913 | 9-Apr-03 | Later Samland 1906, Belgic 1911, Samland 1913, scrapped 1931 | |||
| 9 | Ligonier | Guffey Petroleum Co. | Tanker | 3,737 | 18-May-03 | Scrapped 1937 | |||
| 10 | Larimer | Guffey Petroleum Co. | Tanker | 3,738 | 23-Jun-03 | Missing off Sand Key FL 1919 | |||
| 11 | Mahoning | Guffey Petroleum Co. | Tank Barge | 23-Jun-03 | |||||
| 12 | Neshannock | Guffey Petroleum Co. | Tank Barge | 3-Jul-03 | |||||
| 13 | Abram S. Hewitt | City Of New York | Fire Boat | 320 | 20-Oct-03 | ||||
| 14 | Washington | U. S. Navy | Cruiser | CA | 11 | 14,500d | 30-Jul-06 | Later Seattle (IX 39) 1916, scrapped 1946 | |
| 15 | Barnard | U. S. War Dept. | Dredge | 760 | 28-Jun-04 | ||||
| 16 | Atlantic | North American Dredging Co. | Dredge | 500 | 6-Nov-03 | Later Megas 1918, Landemar 1924, scrapped 1968 | |||
| 17 | George B. McClellan | City of New York | Fire Boat | 320 | 27-Apr-04 | ||||
| 18 | Float No. 9 | N.Y., N.H., & H. Railroad Co. | Car Float | 5-Oct-03 | |||||
| 19 | Float No. 10 | N.Y., N.H., & H. Railroad Co. | Car Float | 16-Oct-03 | |||||
| 20 | Ontario | Merchants & Miners Trans. Co. | Passenger Ship | 3,082 | 6-Aug-04 | Shelled and lost 1942 | |||
| 21 | Kansas | U. S. Navy | Battleship | BB | 21 | 16,000d | 5-Apr-07 | Scrapped 1924 | |
| 22 | Blunts Reef | U. S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor | Lightship | LV | 78 | 470d | 8-Dec-04 | Later WAL 505, rammed and sunk 1960 | |
| 23 | Cape Lookout Shoal | U. S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor | Lightship | LV | 79 | 470d | 1-Dec-04 | Later WAL 506, to Philadelphia 1970 as museum | |
| 24 | Five Fathom Bank | U. S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor | Lightship | LV | 80 | 470d | 8-Dec-04 | Sold 1934 | |
| 25 | Heald Banks | U. S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor | Lightship | LV | 81 | 470d | 11-Jan-05 | Later WAL 507, sold 1955 | |
| 26 | Relief | U. S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor | Lightship | LV | 83 | 470d | 22-Dec-04 | Later WAL 508, to Seattle 1963 as museum | |
| 27 | Float No. 69 | Pennsylvania Railroad Co. | Car Float | 9-Nov-04 | |||||
| 28 | No. 14 Philadelphia | N.Y.P. & Norfolk Railroad Co. | Car Float |