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Perrine, Patterson & Stack
Company typeProprietary
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1845
Founders
  • William Perrine
  • Ariel Patterson
  • Thomas Stack
Defunct1853
FateDissolved
SuccessorPatterson & Stack
HeadquartersFoot of North 2nd St.,
Williamsburg, New York
,
United States

Perrine, Patterson & Stack was a mid-19th century shipbuilding company based in Williamsburg, New York. The company built wooden-hulled ships of all types, but is probably best remembered for a number of notable steamships built in the early 1850s. The company existed for only a few years before the proprietors decided to go their separate ways; of the three former partners, only Thomas Stack subsequently built a substantial number of vessels under his own name.

History[edit]

Perrine, Patterson and Stack was established in about 1845 by William Perrine, Ariel Patterson and Thomas Stack. Perrine, a retired ship's captain, was senior partner in the firm, Patterson was his brother-in-law, and Stack was a young shipbuilder who had served his apprenticeship in the renowned New York shipbuilding company Brown & Bell. The shipyard of the newly formed company was located at the foot of North 2nd Street, Williamsburg (now a borough of Brooklyn).

While the plant and equipment of Perrine, Patterson & Stack is not known, wooden shipbuilding firms in this era could be established for a relatively small outlay—as little as $11,000, and rarely more than $20,000. Tradesmen at this time mostly supplied their own tools, so a shipyard needed only a waterfront property large enough to hold a timber yard and a slipway or two, a derrick to lift heavy components, a large crosscut saw and a few other tools.[1] Since New York was already well served by a number of existing marine engine plants, Perrine, Patterson & Stack could additionally avoid the expensive outlay of an engine plant of its own, relying instead on outsourcing for its steamship engines, from well-known companies such as the Allaire Iron Works, Morgan Iron Works and Hogg & Delameter.



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List of ships[edit]

Ships built by Perrine, Patterson & Stack, 1845–1853
Name[a] Type
[b] 		Built
[c] 		Ton.
[d] 		Engine
[e] 		Original owner
and/or operator[f] 		Intended service Notes
Active Schooner 1845 120 —— [2]
R. Porta Schooner 1845 120 —— [2]
St. Marys Brig 1845 176 —— [3]
Texas Sloop 1845 40 —— [2]
Perine Schooner 1846 95 —— H. D. Smith; C. Elliot East Coast [2][4][5][6][7]
Bola de Oro Schooner 1846 80 —— B. Blanco Belize "[F]or the coasting trade at Balize, Honduras".[4]
Ferry 1846 180 Navy Yard FC East River "[F]or the Jackson Ferry".[4][8]
New York Schooner 1846 200 —— New England "Boston packet".[4][9]
Sloop 1846 70 —— R.V.W. Thorne & Co. [4]
Dredge 1846 120 Peter Morris [4]
Enterprise Ship 1847 860 —— Capt. David Funck "Liverpool trade" [4][10][11]

Jamestown		 Pre-clipper 1847 1151 —— Slate, Gardner & Co NY–China [12]
Senator Ship 1847 1250 —— Slate, Gardner & Co [13] Registered tonnage 777 in 1858.[14]
St. Charles Ship 1847 798 —— NY–New Orleans [15]
Mamlouk Ship 1847 850 —— Warren Delano, Jr Transatlantic Foundered in hurricane on maiden voyage, Sep. 1847; 42 killed, 22 rescued by brig Belize. [1]
  • Andrew Foster
 Ship 01/1848 1400 —— David Ogden, Esqu. Liverpool packet [16] Sunk in collision, English Channel, 1857.[17]

De Witt Clinton		 Ship 03/1848 1066 —— Taylor & Richardson Transatlantic Black Star Line packet.[18][19] ashore 1860 Last reported survey January 1863.
Texas Bark 07/1848 500 —— W. W. Wakeman East Coast "[F]or the Galveston trade."[20]
Princeton Ship 1848 1131 —— [21] In service with the Black Star Line by 1850. qwo385
William H. Harbeck Ship 12?/1848 872 —— Transatlantic Liverpool packet.[22] Destroyed by fire, Sandy Hook, New York, 1854.[23]
Jasper Bark 1849 —— [24]
Oneota Ferry 1849 411 West Street Williamsburg FC East River [24][25][26] Sold to US Government, 1863.[27] sbc
Onalaska Ferry 1849 411 Birbeck Williamsburg FC East River [24][26][28][29] Converted to barge, 1873.[27]
Niagara Ferry 1849 411 West Street Williamsburg FC East River [24][26][29] Destroyed by fire at Jersey City, 1868.[27]
Oneida Ferry 1849 313 West Street Williamsburg FC East River [24][26] Abandoned 1876.[27]
Seneca Ferry 1849 313 Birbeck Williamsburg FC East River [24][26][30] Destroyed by fire, New York, 1870.[27] [g]
Cayuga Ferry 1849 318 Williamsburg FC East River [24][31] Abandoned 1872.[32] sbh
Philadelphia Ship 1849 1102 —— T. Richardson & Co[h] Transatlantic [24] mystic58
Ticonderoga Ship 1849 1089 —— Harbeck & Co [24] mystic58

Star of the West		 Ship 1849 1122 —— Samuel Thompson & nephew [33][34][35]
Angostoura Brig 1850 297 —— Harbeck & Co [36]
Arctic Ship 1850 1115 —— Zerega & Co. NY–Liverpool [34][37]
Brother Jonathan
Commodore 57
Brother Jonathan 61		 Steamship 1850 1181 Morgan Edward Mills NY–Panama Struck and sank off Crescent City, CA 1865; 221 lost [38] [2]
Lady Franklin Ship 1850 1204 —— S. Thompson & Nephew [34][36]
  • Eagle
 Clipper 5/1851 1340 —— Harbeck & Co [39][40][41] tonnage 1296 -mystic58]
Canada Ferry 05/1851 West Street Williamsburg FC East River [40] Abandoned 1876.[27]
San Francisco (y)
City of Pittsburgh		 Steamship 1851 1875 West Point Inman Line Philadelphia–Liverpool [34][42][43] Built for intercoastal service but sold while under construction for transatlantic service. Largest American-built screw steamship on debut, but proved slow and underpowered. Destroyed by fire at Valparaiso, Chile, 1852
Ino
USS Ino 61
Shooting Star 67
Ellen		 Clipper 1851 895 —— Siffkin & Ironsides NY-San Francisco Refitted as bark after 1867; still in service (under Russian flag) as bark Ellen, 1886. [3]

John Stuart		 Clipper 1851 1654 —— Mumford, Smith et al [44] [4]
Lafayette Propeller 1851 1059 Hogg J. G. Williams et al NY-Havre Burned, Chagres, Panama, 1851 [45] fulton
Steamer 07/1851 10 —— "A small steamer ... for oystermen." #8
Hanover Clipper brig 07/1851 —— B. Blanco South America #8
Bark 09/1851 —— Mr. Elwell #8
  • Rapid (y)
  • Cataract
 Schooner 09/1851 357 —— N. L. McCready & Co East Coast [5] [6] One of the first two-masted schooners to exceed 300 tons. The practical limit of the "two-stickers" had effectively been reached with schooners of this size, and from the 1850s on they were increasingly replaced by the three-masted or "tern" schooner. qwo335, 469-70, 553 [[7] ]
Favorita Clipper brig 02/1852 193 —— M. M. Freeman & Co "[F]or the West India and Mediterranean trade". [[8] mystic1858
Greenpoint Ferry 1852 460 Greenpoint FC East River "to run between Green Point and 14th Street" [46] Abandoned 1912.[47]
  • Mount Calvary (y)
  • Martha
  • West Side
 Ferry 1852 447 Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral East River "to run ... between 23rd Street and Newtown" [46] Destroyed by fire at Billingsport, New Jersey, 1904.[48]
City of Williamsburg Ferry 1852 323 Nassau FC East River "for the Houston Street Ferry" [46] Dismantled 1866.[49]
Antelope Clipper 1852 1186 —— Henry Harbeck & Co [44]

Ericsson		 Motorship 1852 1902 Hogg John B. Kitching et al Transatlantic Wrecked on Entrance Island, BC, 1892 [50]
  • Uncle Sam
  • Titana 66
  • Orloff 69
  • Tokei Maru 71
 Steamship 1852 1433 Allaire Edward Mills NY–Panama [51][52] Wrecked off Hakodate, Japan, 1872.[53]
Ada Swift Schooner 1852 268 —— Royal Phelps[i] "[F]or the West India trade". [9] tonnage 268 "addy swift" listed as brig -mystic58
Eclipse Schooner 1852 305 —— M. M. Freeman & Co[j] [10]
Minnesota Ferry 1852 355 Williamsburg FC #12 Abandoned 1876 o&b433
Montague Ferry 1852 410 Wall Street Ferry East River #12 Shortly after its establishment, the Wall Street Ferry was taken over by the Union Ferry Co., in 1853. Montague was coincidentally destroyed by fire the night of the takeover. [11] o&b426
Eagle Ferry 1853 450 Fulton Union FC "to ply between Bridge-street, Brooklyn and New-York" [54] "[F]or the Roosevelt and Bridge Street ferry."#1 [k]
Osprey Ferry 1853 468 Fulton Union FC As above [54] #1 [55]
  • Curlew
  • South Side
 Ferry 1853 366 Fulton Union FC As above [54] #1 [55]
Bonito Brig 1853 276 —— M. M. Freeman & Co [54] (#1) #10 mystic58
Fidelia Schooner 1853 90 —— B. Blanco [54] "Employed in the South American river trade." #1
Flying Cloud Clipper bark 1853 400 —— Harbeck & Co. "in the Agostura trade". #1 This vessel should not be confused with the record-breaking clipper of the same name built in 1851 by Donald McKay.
Heloise Clip. schooner 1853 516 —— Captain McKeige US–Australia [54] #1 Early example of a three-masted or "tern" schooner. qwo556 Fast 53-day passage Newcastle, NSW to San Francisco in 1855 including reported record passage of 10 days from Honolulu, Hawaii. [12]
Margaret Ann Lake Sloop 1853 80 —— W. Lake & Bro. [54] "[I]n the stone trade". #1
Velocity Bark 1853 350 —— D. Curtis & Co. Mediterranean [54] (#1) "[F]or the Carthagena and Savanilla trade." #1 #10
  • Wide Awake
 Clipper 1853 900 —— Siffkin & Ironsides [54][56] #1
Yankee Blade Steamship 1853 1767 Allaire Edward Mills NY–Panama Keel laid by PP&S in June,#10 but completed by Perine & Stack after dissolution of the original firm. Ship stuck and sank off Point Arguello 1854; 30 lost [57] #1

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Name = name of ship. Where a ship had more than one name in its career, each name is listed vertically in chronological order, with the second and subsequent names followed by a two-digit figure representing the last two digits of the year the vessel was renamed, where known. Yard names are denoted by a "(y)" after the name.
  2. ^ Type = ship type.
  3. ^ Built = year of ship launch, where available, or else year of completion.
  4. ^ Ton. = tonnage of ship.
  5. ^ Engine = engine manufacturer. Manufacturers include: Allaire = Allaire Iron Works; Hogg = Hogg & Delameter; Morgan = Morgan Iron Works; West Point = West Point Foundry; West Street = West Street Foundry. All listed manufacturers were located in New York City, with the exception of the West Point Foundry which was located in Cold Spring, New York.
  6. ^ Party which ordered the ship.
  7. ^ According to Cuhady, Seneca was built by "John L. Brown" and purchased by Williamsburg ferries from the Navy Yard Ferry Company, "possibly in 1867". However, a contemporaneous 1849 newspaper report states that Seneca was built for the Williamsburg Ferry Company and that it and four other ferries (Niagara, Onalaska, Oneota and Oneida) are about to commence service with that company. Three other contemporaneous reports state that PP&S built six ferries for the Williamsburg FC in 1849 and Cuhady himself lists only six boats owned by the company that were built in 1849, one of which is Seneca.[27]
  8. ^ As of 1858.
  9. ^ Listed as owner in 1858.
  10. ^ As of 1858.
  11. ^ Built at Greenpoint according to Cudahy.[55]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Heinrich, p. 21.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ship Building in 1845" (PDF). Shipping and Commercial List. New York. 1846-01-14. p. 15.
  3. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 191.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Ship Building in New York in 1846". The New York Herald. 1847-01-01. p. 2.
  5. ^ "Launches". The New York Herald. 1846-04-01. p. 2.
  6. ^ American Lloyd's 1859. p. 406.
  7. ^ "Ship Building" (PDF). Shipping and Commercial List. New York. 1846-02-07. p. 43.
  8. ^ Cudahy 1990. p. 364.
  9. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 294.
  10. ^ "Ship Enterprise", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1847-02-06.
  11. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 30.
  12. ^ Fairburn, Vol. 5, p. 2813.
  13. ^ Fairburn, Vol. 5, p. 2828.
  14. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 66.
  15. ^ Fairburn, Vol. 5, p. 2795.
  16. ^ "Launch". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1848-01-22.
  17. ^ "Collision in the Channel—American Ship Lost". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1857-05-15. p. 2.
  18. ^ "The New York Packet-ship, De Witt Clinton". The Guardian. London. 1848-07-01. p. 9.
  19. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 27.
  20. ^ "Marine Affairs" (PDF). The New York Herald. 1848-07-25. p. 2.
  21. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 59.
  22. ^ "Magnificent New Packet Ship". The Bradford Observer. Bradford, Yorkshire. 1848-12-07. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  23. ^ "New York". The Daily Picayune. New Orleans. 1854-05-26. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i De Bow, J. D. B., ed. (May 1850). "Ship Building, &C., in New York". The Commercial Review. New Orleans: J. D. B. De Bow. pp. 490–91.
  25. ^ "Williamsburgh Ferry". Brooklyn Evening Star. 1849-01-09. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  26. ^ a b c d e "No title". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1849-04-16. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  27. ^ a b c d e f g Cudahy 1990. p. 433.
  28. ^ "No title". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1849-04-06. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  29. ^ a b Baxter and Adams 1999. pp. 85–86.
  30. ^ "No title" (PDF). Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer. 1850-10-12. p. 2.
  31. ^ "City Intelligence" (PDF). Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer. 1849-09-13. p. 2.
  32. ^ Cudahy 1990. p. 432.
  33. ^ No title, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1849-09-13.
  34. ^ a b c d "Ship Building in New York". Daily Alta California. San Francisco, CA. 1850-08-18 – via The Maritime Heritage Project.
  35. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 68.
  36. ^ a b Poor, p. 30.
  37. ^ "Ship Launch at Williamsburgh", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1850-08-30.
  38. ^ Heyl, Vol. 1, pp. 63-64.
  39. ^ New-York Marine Register 1858. p. 27.
  40. ^ a b "Ship Building in New York" (PDF). Semi-Weekly Courier and New-York Enquirer. 1851-05-03. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  41. ^ Clark, p. 350.
  42. ^ Heyl, Vol. 1, p. 87.
  43. ^ Ridgely-Nevitt, pp. 194-195.
  44. ^ a b Fairburn, Vol. 5, p. 2818.
  45. ^ Ridgely-Nevitt, pp. 188-189.
  46. ^ a b c "Ferry Boats", The New York Times, 1852-04-24.
  47. ^ Cudahy 1990. p. 443.
  48. ^ Cudahy 1990. p. 442.
  49. ^ Cudahy 1990. p. 441.
  50. ^ Ridgely-Nevitt, pp. 208-215.
  51. ^ Heyl, Vol. 1, pp. 425-426.
  52. ^ "A New Steamer for the California Route", The New York Times, 1852-07-15.
  53. ^ Heyl 1969. 6. pp. 321–323.
  54. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Our Shipyards", The New York Times, 1853-08-13.
  55. ^ a b c Cudahy 1990. p. 426.
  56. ^ Fairburn, Vol. 6, p. ?.
  57. ^ Heyl, Vol. 1, pp. 463-464.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (1999). Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 85–86. ISBN 9780823219544.
  • Clark, Arthur Hamilton (1910). The clipper ship era; An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders and Crews, 1843-1869. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 350–51.
  • Cudahy, Brian L. (1990). Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0823212459.
  • Fairburn, William Armstrong (1954–55). Ritchie, Ethel M. (ed.). Merchant Sail. Vol. 6. Center Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  • Heyl, Erik. Early American Steamers. Buffalo, NY: Eric Heyl.
  • Poor, Henry V., ed. (1851): American Railroad Journal, Steam Navigation, Commerce, Mining, Manufactures, Volume 24, p. 30, J. H. Schultz & Co., New York.

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