Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia PA

Neafie & Levy was one of the earliest iron shipbuilders and the chief rival to William Cramp in 19th-century Philadelphia.  It was started in 1844 by Thomas Reaney, Jacob Neafie and William Smith; Smith died in 1845 and John Levy took his place; Reaney left in 1859 to start his own shipyard in Chester and from then on it was Neafie & Levy, until it closed in 1907.  The shipyard was located in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, on land now occupied by a Philadelphia Electric power plant: the plant's pier is believed to date from the site's days as a shipyard.  See it from the air on Google here.  The table below lists a tremendous number of vessels without much in the way of detail.  If anyone can provide any information about this yard and the ships it built, please e-mail it to me at tim@coltoncompany.com

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Type Tons Delivery Disposition
  Conestoga Balt and Phila Stmbt Co. Steam Canal Boat 65 1844 Abandoned 1856
  Tecumseh     198 1844  
  San Juan       1844  
  Apure Orinoco Steamship Co. Steamboat 269 1844 Sold foreign 1850
  Barclay Rancocas Steamboat Co. Steamboat 99 1845 Abandoned 1882
  Governor Moorhead       1852  
  Montezuma       1852  
  Orinoco   Steamboat 171 1852 Sold foreign 1856
  Rancocas Rancocas Steamboat Co. Steamboat 133 1852 Abandoned 1866
  Boardman No. 1       1855  
  Boardman No. 2       1855  
  Decatur   Steam Tug 45 1855 Abandoned 1860
  Henry L. Gaw   Steamboat 228 1855 Abandoned 1910
  Jacob G. Neafie   Steam Tug 103 1856 Abandoned 1876
  Elizabeth   Steamboat 245 1857 Abandoned 1897
  Fanny Cadwalader   Steamboat 218 1857 Abandoned 1907
  James Gray C.S. Navy Steam Tug 161 1857 Sold by Navy 1863
  John P. Levy   Steam Tug 59 1857 Abandoned 1898
  Octorara   Steamboat 237 1859 Abandoned 1899
  Sagua   Steamboat 187 1859 Sold foreign 1859
  Amcor       1860  
  Arasapha   Steam Ferry Boat 232 1860  
  Cotton Plant   Steamboat 85 1860 Converted 1881
  General Winfield Scott     1162 1860 Sunk 1861
  Ounalaska   Unknown   1860  
  Pacific   Steam Tug 65 1860 Abandoned 1922
  Philadelphia   Steamboat 504 1860 Sunk 1874
  Russia       1860  
  Siberia       1860  
  Union   Steamship 1124 1860 Sunk 1861
  William Woodward   Steamboat 275 1860 Abandoned 1899
  Oriental   Steamship 1202 1860 Sunk 1862
  General Meigs     329 1862 Sold foreign 1877
  General Stewart Van Vliet     63 1862 Abandoned 1891
  Josephine Thompson     268 1862 Abandoned 1900
  Pocahontas     716 1862 Sold to govt. 1863
  Alligator U.S. Navy Submarine 350 1862 Lost in a storm 1863
344 Charles Pearson Boston Towboat Co. Tug 392 1863 Later "Underwriter", abandoned 1929
  Havana   Steamship 1347 1863 Sold foreign 1868
  Bandy Moore     175 1866 Abandoned 1878
  Julia Saint Clair     174 1866 Abandoned 1882
  Henry Wellman   Tug 38 1871 Later Julia C. Moran, scrapped 1936
  Seminole     78 1871  
  Mary Louise     87 1872  
  Cynthia     99 1872  
  Sallie     27 1872  
  H. G. Tisdale     81 1872  
  Alfred and Edwin     102 1872  
  Ethel     34 1872  
564 J. G. Witherber     114 1872  
  W. E. Gladwish     121 1873  
  Knickerbocker Cornell Steamboat Co. Tug 78 1873 Later SP-479
  Young America   Tug 78 1873 Later James A. Dumont
  Convoy     78 1873  
  Dahlia U.S. Lighthouse Service Lighthouse Tender 426 1874 Sold 1909 as "Flora M. Hill", sank 1912
  Ivanhoe     35 1875  
  William S. Stakely     83 1875  
  Hunter                        1877  
  Transfer No. 1     136 1878  
  Startle     33 1878  
  Ella Andrews     64 1879  
  John E. Tygert     288 1879  
  Neptune     145 1879  
  Rattler     139 1879  
  Atlantic     451 1880  
  Transfer No. 2     101 1880  
  George H. Watrous     102 1880  
  W. M. Wood     58 1880  
703 Battler     138 1880  
  Conoho     366 1881  
  William A. Marburg     126 1881  
  William T. Hart     971 1881  
  Nat Wales     79 1881  
  Storm King Boston Towboat Co. Tug 182 1882  
715 Cynthia No. 2     108 1882  
  Leo     89 1882  
  City of Alma     96 1882  
  William J. Keyser     97 1882  
  Meteor     423 1883  
  Riverside     72 1883  
  W. H. Jackson   Tug 87 1883  
  Louisville   Tug 87 1883 Later Thomas A. Bain, M. B. Coppedge
  William Schaubel, Jr.   Steam Yacht 45 1883  
  Governor Robert M. McLane     144 1884  
  Ocean King     201 1884  
  Mary W. Potter     148 1884  
  E. A. Burke     228 1885  
  Bolivar     234 1885  
  Haven Belle Rancocas Steamboat Co. Steamboat 119 1885  
  S. A. McCaulley     92 1885  
  Minerva     38 1886  
  Harry Schaubel, Jr.     34 1886  
784 Newburgh     1033 1886  
  Transfer No. 3     130 1886  
  Albert N. Hughes     92 1887  
  Don Juan     48 1887  
  Bay King 1   Tug 52 1887 Later Cavalier 1, Sommers N. Smith, Chee Chee
  Volunteer     97 1887  
795 Josefina   Sailing Vessel 1151 1887 Later "Dada" and "Marina"
  A. C. Rose     150 1888  
  E. L. Levy     142 1888  
  Elizabeth Monroe Smith     204 1888  
  Corona     1492 1888 Sunk 1940
  Bismarck Cahell Towing Tug 124 1888  
  E. C. Baker     153 1889  
  Charlotte     1746 1889  
  Brinton     103 1889  
  Media     103 1889  
  Britannia     135 1889  
  Asa W. Hughes   Tug 106 1889 Later "Triton", now "Navajo"
827 International   Tug 400 1890  
  Frank K. Esherick     69 1890  
829 City of Seattle   Passenger Ship 1411 1890  
830 Atkins Hughes   Tug 115 1890  
  Jacob Paulsen     97 1890  
835 Relief   Cargo Ship 219 1891  
837 Juan J. Vina   Tug   1890 Later "Panuco II"
  John G. McCullough     1309 1891  
  Utowana   Steam Yacht 414 1891  
  Corsair J. P. Morgan Steam Yacht 560 1891 To USN 1898 as "Gloucester", sold 1919
  Primers Point     63 1891  
854 Antinojenes Menendez           Tug   1892  
  P. H. Wise   Tug 111 1892 To USN 1898 as "Sioux" (YT 19), renamed "Nyack" 1918, sold 1921
  Harry M. Wall     60 1892  
  Hartford   Tug 1337 1892 Later "Carolina"
  B. D. Wood     304 1892  
  Robert S. Bradley     121 1892  
  Scranton     300 1892  
860 Plymouth   Tug 373 1892  
  Honey Brook     373 1892  
  Eva M. Wall     62 1892  
  C. G. Coyle   Tug   1892 To USN 1898 as "Choctaw" (YT 26), renamed "Wicomico" 1918, in collision and scrapped 1940
  Intrepid   Steam Yacht 340 1893  
  Brigantine     67 1893  
  Long Island     409 1893  
  Colonel John F. Gaynor     153 1893  
  Pemaquid             Coastal Cargo Ship   1893 To USAT as FS 98
  Potomac     763 1894  
  Baltic     72 1894  
  Frederica     240 1894  
  Trenton     85 1894  
  Philadelphia   Tug   1894 To USN 1898 as "Peoria" (AT 48), later YT 109, sold 1922
  Eugene Hughes     111 1895  
882 Cape Ann     718 1895 Later "Seminole"
  D. C. Ivans Moran Company Tug   1895 To USN 1898 as "Nezinscot", sank 1909
  Ashbourne     115 1895  
886 Thomas Cunningham, Sr.   Tug 70 1895 Now "Tuff-E-Nuff", being converted to yacht in Deland FL
  Columbia     84 1896  
888 Middleton     1554 1896  
  Gwynedd     115 1896  
890 Reina de Los Angeles               1896  
  Plymouth   Tug 428 1897 To USCG 1899 as "Iris", sold 1934 as "Big Chief", scrapped 1973
  John I. Brady     72 1897  
  Annie L. Vansciver     146 1897  
  John Ericsson Balt. & Phila. SS Co. Steamer 897 1897  
  Clio     217 1898  
  Alfred W. Booth Moran Towing Tug 117 1898 To USN 1898 as "Massasoit" (YT 15), sold 1937
  DeWitt C. Ivins