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Julius Petersen Inc., Upper Nyack NY

Most recent update: July 17, 2011.

The Julius Petersen shipyard was founded as the Van Houten Boatyard in the 1890s.   In about 1907 it was acquired by Julius Petersen, a Danish immigrant who had previously built boats on Staten Island and in Tarrytown.  The company is still operating as a boatyard, although it stopped building boats after Petersen died in 1949: visit it at www.juliuspetersen.com.  See it from the air on Google here.
Hull # Original Name Original Owner Vessel type Tons Length Built Disposition
  Keystone Mary Cummings Steam Yacht     1893 Later passenger, ferry and tug
  North Pole       113 1913 To USN 1918 as YD 45
  Yank N Ackerman Motor Yacht   60 1917 To USN as Yank (SP 908), later Yard No 212, returned 1919
  Louisette   Motor Yacht   42 1925  
  Whim   Motor Yacht   38 1925  
  Grackle   Motor Yacht   46 1926  
  Navajo   Motor Yacht   73 1927 To USN 1942 as YP 564, to MARAD 1946
  Possum   Motor Yacht   63 1928  
  Blackbird   Motor Yacht   94 1928  
  Effort II   Motor Yacht     1928 To USN 1942 as YP 175, to MARAD 1946
  Saga   Motor Yacht   89 1929  
  Sabiha III Lucien Tyng Motor Yacht   96 1930 To USN 1942 as YP 205, lost 1943
  Genzam   Motor Yacht   98 1931 To USN 1942 as YP 203, to MARAD 1946
  Zamette III Zalmond Simmons Motor Yacht     1931  
  Binker   Aux Cutter Yacht   40 1934  
  Crusoe   Motor Yacht 9 40 1934 Active
  Libra II   Motor Yacht   65 1936 To USN 1942 as YP 512, small boat 1946
  Pelham Gulf       57 1937 To USN 1943 as YOG 81
  Floenna   Motor Yacht   53 1936  
  Amici II W Friend Motor Yacht   53 1937  
  Serendipity   Motor Yacht 21 40 1939 Active
  Wego   Motor Yacht     1941 To USN 1942 as YP 536, to MARAD 1946
  SC 652 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 18-Jun-42 Transferred overseas 1947
  SC 653 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 8-Jul-42 To US Coast Guard 1945
  SC 738 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 21-Oct-42 Transferred overseas 1947
  SC 739 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 31-Oct-42 To the Philippines 1948 as Ilocos Sur (P 16). Scrapped
  SC 740 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 13-Nov-42 Lost Jun-43
  SC 741 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 15-Dec-42 Transferred overseas 1947 
  SC 742 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 1-Jan-43 To the Philippines 1948
  SC 743 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 27-Feb-43 To the Philippines 1948
  SC 1315 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 9-Jun-43 Later SCC 1315.  
  SC 1316 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 19-Jun-43 Later SCC 1316. To US Army 1946. Sold 194x as fishing Helen E, stranded 1951
  SC 1317 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 6-Jul-43  
  SC 1318 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 10-Aug-43 To Indonesia as Bhayamkara 1 
  SC 1319 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 28-Aug-43  
  SC 1320 US Navy Sub Chaser 136 110 24-Sep-43  
    one of above?   129 107 1943 Now fishing vessel Wakamian
  QS 13-15 US Army Boat, Quick Supply   104 2/43-3/43  
  QS 16-24 US Army Boat, Quick Supply   104 3/44-1/45  
  P 355-359 US Army Boat, Rescue   85 3/44-1/45  
  P 440-449 US Army Boat, Rescue   85 3/44-1/45  
    one of above?   124 81 1944 Now yacht Penthouse
    one of above?   98 82 1945 Now passenger vessel Challenger
  Easy Living   Passenger 64 61 1946 Active
  Nambay Cyrus McCormick Motor Yacht 89 87 1948