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Minneford Yacht Yard, City Island NY

Most recent update: May 18, 2011.


Minneford Yacht Yard was started in 1930 in a former lumber mill and became famous for building several America's Cup yachts.  It was sold in 1983 to a yacht brokerage.  If anyone can provide any information about either the yard or the boats it built, please e-mail it to me at timcolton@aol.com.

Hull #

Original Name

Original Owner

Type

GT

Feet

Delivery

Disposition

 

Dorade

Olin Stephens 

Yacht

19

53

1930

Active.

 

Marganita II

 

Yacht

 

37

1930

Later Salabar

 

Alsumar

 

Yacht

 

44

1931

Later Restless IV, Windoon, Cayuga, Madeline.

 

Bounding Home

 

Yacht

19

48

1933

Active?

 

Golden Eye

 

Yacht

 

41

1937

 

 

Narwhal

 

Yacht

 

 

1938?

 

 

LT 492

U.S. Army

Large Tug

275

127

1942

Sold 194x as Colonel, in collision in Pascagoula 1960s and scrapped

 

LT 493

U.S. Army

Large Tug

275

127

1942

Sold as Ruth, then Berta R 1953, in collision off Panama City 1954 and sank

 

LT 494

U.S. Army

Large Tug

275

127

1942

Sold as Harry Card (Henry Card?), then Thomas Cornell, Jean Nelson, San Jorge, Jean Nelson

 

LT 495

U.S. Army

Large Tug

275

127

1942

Sold as John Michael 1946, then Leslie Foss 1951, yacht Enchanter 1969, tug Polar Navigator 1977, Western Sea One 1979, Enchantress 1999. Abandoned in Anacortes WA 2000, scrapped 2008

 

LT 496

U.S. Army

Large Tug

275

127

1942

Sold as J. S. Foley, then Haida Warrior 1964, Active 1967, ‘109’ 1976. Destroyed by fire 1977

 

FP 107

U.S. Army

Coastal Freighter

 

140

10/43

[clear in photo was FP] 

 

FS 108

U.S. Army

Coastal Freighter

 

140

3/44

 

 

FS 109

U.S. Army

Coastal Freighter

 

140

4/44

To Argentina as Babymar

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

No name

NY Central RR

Covered Barge

 

100

1944

 

 

T 193

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

2/44-3/44

 

 

T 194

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

2/44-3/44

 

 

T 195

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

2/44-3/44

 

 

T 196

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

2/44-3/44

 

 

T 197

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

2/44-3/44

 

 

T 198

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

2/44-3/44

 

 

T 199

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 200

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 201

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 202

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 203

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 204

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 205

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 206

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 207

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 208

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

T 209

U.S. Army

Psgr.-Cargo Boat

 

65

4/44-10/44

 

 

J 2436

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2437

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2438

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2439

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2440

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2441

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2442

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2443

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2444

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2445

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2446

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2447

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2448

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2449

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2450

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2451

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2452

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2453

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2454

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2455

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2456

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2457

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2458

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2459

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2460

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2461

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2462

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2463

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2464

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2465

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2466

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2467

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2468

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2491

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2492

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2493

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2494

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2495

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2496

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2497

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2498

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2499

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1945

 

 

J 2500

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1946

 

 

J 2501

U.S. Army

Launch

 

33

1946

 

 

Naiad II

 

Passenger

 

62

1944

Deleted?.[ex-T boat?]

 

Empress

 

Fishing

46

61

1944

Active.[ex-T boat?]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 [LT 495]

 

Jay & Lee

 

Fishing

17

40

1949

Active?

 

Constellation

Olin Stephens?

Yacht

 

54

1964

Sank in Turkey 1981

 

Djinn

 

Yacht

42

56

1965

Later Cascade, now Grace

75 

Intrepid

W. J. Strawbridge Syndicate

Yacht

25

54

1967

Active.

 

Iroquois

Eugene van Voorhis

Yacht

15

46

1967

Active in Finland

 

Spartan

 

Yacht

12

42

1969

Now Escort

 

Lightnin'

 

Yacht

27

38

1972

Active.

 

Charisma

 

Yacht

31

54

1974

Active.

 

Courageous

R. McCullough Syndicate

Yacht

50

66

1974

Active.

 

Clipper

 

Yacht

 

41

1976

(in Sweden?)

 

Enterprise

George & Lucy Jewett

Yacht

20

61

1976

Active.

 

Independence

King’s Point Fund

Yacht

 

61

1977

Stripped for parts.

92

Black Majic

 

 

Yacht

22

41

1977

Now Underwater Secrets

 

Impulse

 

Yacht

21

42

1978

Now Malolo

 

Tabasco

 

Yacht

20

41

1978

Active.

100

Freedom

Fort Schuyler Foundation

Yacht

43

62

1979

Active.

 

Hero-Brava

(Italy)

Yacht

 

44

1980

Active