APPENDIX. - — SHIP BUILDING. 



107 



Patchogue. 



Rig. 

 Schr 



Vessels built at Ritchogue by Bo«s O. Perry Smith from 1850 to 1872. 



Tonnage. 

 160 



Brig 

 Schr 



Date. 

 1850 



1853 

 1854 



1855 

 1856 

 1857 

 1858 

 1859 

 i860 

 i860 

 1864 

 1864 

 1865 

 1865 

 1866 

 1867 

 1868 

 1869 

 1872 



Name. 

 Ida Maillor 

 R. H. Vermilyea 

 A. Mason 

 J. A. Stanley 

 T. D. Wagner 

 Kate Merrill 

 A. Stewart 

 Phebe 

 S. T. Baker 

 Daniel Holmes 

 John Shay 



Not named (when launched 

 Harry Doremus 

 Not named (when launched) 

 Alida 



Ricardo Barros 

 Minnie 

 Phebe 

 J. W. Boyle 



140 

 340 

 320 

 476 

 360 

 170 

 180 

 300 



350 



480 



80 



85 



55 



70 



170 



360 



240 



120 



Total 4.556 

 During the same period^he built 19 sloops for the oyster trade, ranging 

 from 20 to 40 tons and averaging say 30 tons, or 570 in all, making the total 

 tonnage constructed by him in that time something over 5,000. The larg- 

 er vessels were employed in coastwise trade, as fruiters from the West 

 Indies, or in other lines of foreign trade. Some of them have been remark- 

 ably successful as sailors; thus: the R. H. Vermilyea made the trip from 

 Cuba to New York in 6 days; the Phebe (2nd) made the trip from ban 

 Bias to New York in 12 days, the quickest passage between the two ports; 

 and others have made notably quick voyages. 



Edward Post built at Patchogue in 1882 a schooner yacht of about 

 160 tons. In the same year Martenus Smith, son of O. P. Smith, built 

 the schooner Grace Bailey, 1 20 tons. A very large number of sloops and 

 small schooners, designed mostly for the oyster trade, have been built in 

 and near Patchogue; any exact figures of number or tonnage would be im- 

 possible, but the aggregate would probably count up several thousand tons. 

 To Edward T, Moore, Surveyor of Customs at that port, I am indebted for 

 the following: 



Statement of Tonnage at the Port of Patchogue on June 30, 1875, the 

 year of its establishment as a Port of Delivery and each year thereafter. 



Date, No. of Vessels. Tonnage. 



June 30, 1875 57 934.00 



1875 134 2,523.12 



1877 161 2,716.96 



1878 179 2,766.00 



1879 209 2,925.26 



1880 207 2,730.39 



1881 201 2,485.70 



