[4] Headquartered in Long Island City[5] with a boatyard in the adjacent Astoria neighborhood, the company produced tugboats, river vessels, scows, and yachts.

[3] Among its products were two private motorboats that were later commissioned by the United States Navy for service during World War I: Osprey II, which served as USS Osprey II (SP-928) from 1917 to 1918; and Althea, which served as USS Althea (SP-218) from 1917 to 1919.

[1] Among its naval architects was H. Newton Whittelsey,[6] whose yacht designs were noted for introducing "the modern type of large raised deck cruiser," according to Motor Boating magazine.

[7] Another employee was Daniel I. Whittlesey,[8] a 1901 graduate of Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School.

By 1916, Whittelsey and Whittlesey had formed their own shipbuilding company headquartered at 11 Broadway in Manhattan.