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Hillman Ship & Engine, Philadelphia PA

Most recent update: April 13, 2012.

Hillman & Streaker was established in the 1840s and merged with Birely & Sons in 1866.  Charles Hillman and his sons bought out Birely and Streaker in 1888 and changed the name to Hillman Ship & Engine Building.  A Navy contract bankrupted them in 1899 and the property was acquired by Cramp.  The yard was located at the foot of Montgomery Avenue, in Kensington, just downstream from Cramp's yard.  See it from the air on Google here: you can still see the layout of the yard.

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Type GT Built

Disposition

Built by Hillman & Streaker
  Parker Vein   Cargo Ship 460 1853  
  Itasca U.S. Navy Gunboat 691 1861  
  Rattlesnake Shoal (LV 30) U.S. Coast Guard Light Vessel 232 1863 Sold 1872
  Pontiac U.S. Navy Gunboat 1,173 1864 Sold 1867

Built by John Birely, Jacob Birely and/or Birely & Lynn
  Mount Vernon   Psgr/Cargo 500 1846  
  Mount Vernon Washington Fredericksburg Steamboat 359 1848 Abandoned 1880: duplicate of the one above?
  Western Port   Psgr/Cargo 453 1853  
  Phineas Sprague   Psgr/Cargo 938 1857  
  Sciota U.S. Navy  Gunboat 691 1861  

Built by Birely, Hillman & Streaker
  St. Michel Govt. of Haiti Gunboat   1875  
  1804 Govt. of Haiti Gunboat   1875  
  Lucy P. Miller J.M.Miller et al Cargo ship 533 1878 Wrecked off Petit Manan 1893
  Santo Domingo T.Clyde Cargo ship 1,880 1878 Later Yemassee 1987, barge 1907
  Habanero Michelena & Galbany Cargo ship 498 1879 Later Triton 1888, wrecked between Dominica & Mariel 1897
  Wanderer J.W.Black & others Cargo ship 531 1879 Later Atlantic 1900, barge 1906
  Delaware W.P.Clyde & Co Cargo ship 1,646 1880 Burnt off New York 1898
  City of Richmond Virginia Steamboat Co Passenger ship 1,001 1880 Later Wm. C. Egerton 1892, Glen Island 1997, burnt off Matinicock Point, Long Island Sound 1904
  Goldsboro' W.P.Clyde & Co Cargo ship 681 1882 Wrecked on Brandywine Shoal 1912

Built by Hillman Ship & Engine Building
  Maracaibo Atlantic & Caribbean SN Co Psgr/Cargo 1,262 1889 Wrecked 1898
  Pawnee Clyde & Co Cargo 1,801 1890 Burnt 1899
  Gay Head New Bedford etc SS Co Passenger 701 1891 Later Pastime 1925, scrapped 1931
  Anthony Groves, Jr. Balto & Phila SN Co Passenger 605 1893 Later Tarco #1 1937, scrapped 1947
  William E. Doron     171 1893  
  Bristol     48 1893  
  Pokanoket     319 1894  
  John Reese     57 1894  
  Paoli Staples Coal Co Tug 330 1895 Scrapped 1934
  Endeavor Denny Bros. Passenger 315 1896 Burnt 1924
  Winthrop Staples Coal Co Tug 352 1896 To USN 1898 as Osceola, AT 47 1920, Winthrop 1924, foundered 1947
  Radiant     89 1896  
  St. Louis Pennsylvania RR Co Ferry 1,273 1896 Scrapped 1944
  G. F. Brady     182 1897  
  Pencoyd     119 1897  
  New Brunswick Pennsylvania RR Co Ferry 1,273 1898 Scrapped 1951
  Gypsum King J. B. King Tptn. Tug 581 1898 Later Slocum 1898, scrapped 1946
353 Eureka Staples Coal Co Tug 353 1898 Scrapped 1950
  Concord Staples Coal Co Tug 353 1898 To USN 1920 as Mendota (YT 33), Muscotah 1932, scrapped 1937
  Waltham Staples Coal Co Tug 299 1898 Later Dauntless No. 10 1934, Wathen 1946, Sally R 1953
  National     157 1898  
  Tacony Staples Coal Co Tug 353 1898 Later F. H. Chappell 1921, scrapped 1940
  Margaret   Dredge 338 1899  
  Nellie M. Gazzam     37 1899  
  Mackenzie (TB 17) U.S. Navy Torpedo Boat 65 1899 Sunk as target 1916