Continental Iron Works was established in 1851, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, across the East River from Manhattan's 14th Street and became famous for building John Ericsson's monitors. The site is now occupied by a Consolidated Freightways terminal. The company ceased active shipbuilding in 1889. Note that there is no apparent connection between this yard and the Continental Iron Works that was located in Vallejo CA and that built the monitor "Monadnock". If anyone can provide any additional information about this shipyard, or about the ships it built, please e-mail me at tim@coltoncompany.com
| Hull # | Original Name | Original Owner | Type | Tons | Delivery | Disposition |
| Flushing | Flushing Steam Ferry | Ferry | 333 | 1859 | Sold foreign 1863 | |
| Alabama | I. L. Day and Others | Steamboat | 510 | 1859 | Abandoned 1892 | |
| Primero | Pesant Bros. and Co. | Steamboat | 331 | 1861 | Sunk 1862 | |
| Monitor | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 987 | 25-Feb-62 | Foundered off Cape Hatteras 1862 | |
| Catskill | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 1,875 | 24-Feb-63 | Sold 1902 | |
| Montauk | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 1,875 | 14-Dec-62 | Sold 1904 | |
| Passaic | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 1,875 | 25-Nov-62 | Sold 1899 | |
| Onondaga | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 2,592 | 24-Mar-64 | Sold 1904 | |
| Muscoota | U.S. Navy | Gunboat | 1,370 | 5-Jan-65 | ||
| Puritan | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 4,912 | 5-Jan-66 | Sold 1922 | |
| Cohoes | U.S. Navy | Ironclad | 1,175 | 19-Jan-66 | Scrapped 1874 | |
| Nuevo Cubano | 42 | 1866 | Sold foreign 1866 | |||
| Fulton | 647 | 1871 | ||||
| Farragut | 647 | 1871 | ||||
| Atlantic | 930 | 1885 | ||||
| Brooklyn | 930 | 1885 | ||||
| General | 332 | 1889 |