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Sank near Christian Island, Georgian Bay: Charles W. Liken: 1880 August 13, 1905 63 ft (19 m) Tugboat Burned to a total loss in Bay City, Michigan. [4] Lycoming: 1880 October 22, 1910 251 ft (77 m) Cargo ship Burned to the waterline off Rondeau, Ontario, Lake Erie October 22, 1910. [5] Conemaugh: 1880 November 21, 1906 251 ft (77 m) Cargo ship
Pages in category "Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States" The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total. ... West Bay City Shipbuilding ...
Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited (BethShip) (1913–1964) Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland (1914–1997) Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts; Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana; Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
She was built by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan. She was originally built for the American Steamship Company, in 1900. At the time of her launch she was the largest vessel on the lakes, this is why she was given the title Queen of the Lakes. In 1901 she was sold to the Pittsburgh Steamship Company. [1]
It started as Cleveland Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio [1] in 1888 and opened the yard in Lorain, Ohio in 1898. It changed its name to the American Ship Building Company in 1900, when it acquired Superior Shipbuilding , in Superior, Wisconsin ; Toledo Shipbuilding, in Toledo, Ohio ; and West Bay Shipbuilding, in West Bay City, Michigan .
The SS Sylvania was a 572-foot (174 m) (Originally 524-foot (160 m) long) Great Lakes freighter that had a long 79-year career on the Great Lakes. Sylvania was built by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan as hull #613.
The John Sherwin was an American steel-hulled, propeller-driven Great Lakes freighter built in 1906 by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company (F.W. Wheeler Shipyards) of Bay City, Michigan for service on the Great Lakes of North America. She was used to transport bulk cargoes such as coal, iron ore and grain.