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APPENDIX. — SHIP BUILDING. 



launched in the same way and was employed for some years on L. I, 

 Sound ; her ultimate end is not known. The chief peculiarity about this 

 vessel was the fact that instead of planking on the outside in the usual 

 way, she was covered with boards or strips laid on crosswise and nailed at 

 the intersections ; this idea did not work well, as she soon became leaky. 

 She was named the Phantom. 



Greenport. 



John Port, 

 at Greenhill. 

 Eig. Name. 

 8chr. Crysolite 

 " Expedite 

 " Charles Henry 

 " J. Truman 

 " Trade Wind 

 Sloop Long Island 

 " Antecedent 



Post & Hand. 

 Sloop Sea Witch 



Silas E. Hand, 

 South of I he Railroad. 

 Schr. Wm. E. Dodge 

 " Maria Morton 



Tons 



Schr. Wm. C. Kundson 

 Sloop (smaek) J. H. Racey 

 Wild Pigeon 

 " Emma Johnson 

 81 E. Thornhill. 



92 Sloop Grampus 

 136 Harmon D. Bishop. 



Who had yards on both sides of Main 

 street. 

 Name. 

 Jane A. Bishop 

 Eastern Star 

 Emeline Haight 

 Hannah M. Johnson 

 Siam 

 Union 



Rig. 

 Bark 

 Brig 

 Schr. 



12 



Tons. 



238 

 105 



Slooj> 



As to many of the earlier built vessels, some of which are mentioned 

 above while others are hidden from the light of investigation, few and in- 

 complete details could be procured. Aside from those mentioned a num- 

 ber were built at different limes, of which no data was obtainable. 



At Southold John C. Wells built the schooner John C. Wells and the 

 sloops Fox and Defiance, Gilbert Davis built at New Suffolk the sloop 

 Sarah Alice ; he also built two sloops at Greenport and rebuilt the sloop 

 D. D. Webb. At Jamesport John Dimon built the schooner North State, 

 2o tons. W. H. Corwin built the schooner Anadir, 73 tons, sloop Sylph, 

 1 2 tons and sloop yacht Sirocco, 20 tons. Several other vessels, including 

 SI number of large schooners, were built at New Suffolk and Jamesport. 



Richard Benjamin. Rig. Name. Tons. 



At Tanning's Point, south side of Sloop(smack)VVyaadankab't40 



Railroad 



Rig. Na'-e. Tons. 



Schr. Wm. H. Rowe 156 



" David G. Floy! 191 



Sloop Native 20 



At East Marion. 



Schr. Tamanlipas about 200 



" 0. & C. Brooks 135 



Harriet Foster 80 



Year. «' R. Benjamin 15 1865 



1855 Hiram Bishop. 



1856 [Between the years 1839 and 1855, 

 1859 at the yard on the north side of Cen- 

 tral avenue (formerly Amity street) 



1862 since occupied by his son Oliver H. 

 1865 Bishop and now the property of 



At yard west side of Main street. Elizur Matthews, successor to Mat- 



Schr. Charles Henry 139 



" J. Freeman 132 



Sloop Long Island 88 



•' Jotin Post 38 



« D. F. Ives 5] 



" (smack) Silas Henry 40 



" Mary Elena 15 



" (yacht) Wavelet 20 



" Albatross 40 



" (smack) Oal Wells 39 



1847 thews & Fordham.| 

 1847 Schr. Sterling 

 1847 Brig Thos. Cook 

 1849 do Pecoaic 

 1849 Schr. John O. Ireland 



1849 do Sarah Strong 



1850 do Minerva 



1851 do Alida 



1852 do Almeda 



1852 do D. W. Dickinson 



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