On August 8, 1892, the side-wheel steamer Frank Jones was delivered. The wooden hull was built by New England Co. and the engines were built by BIW. It ran between Portland and Machias. It had two accidents in Maine: when the ship City of Bangor rammed into the steamer, and when a log got stuck in its paddle wheel. Later on, Frank Jones ran the Fall River Line in Massachusetts and NYC, the Manhattan Line between NYC and Albany, and the Capital City Line on New York’s Hudson River. In World War I, it carried ammunition for the US Navy.
Hulls 1, 4, 6 and 11: The wooden hulls for these vessels were built and launched by the New England Company in Bath, Maine, then towed to BIW to have the steam propulsion machinery installed and final outfitting completed. Thomas Hyde was one of the owners of the New England Co. Shipyard.
