The American Ship Building Company, Lorain OH

(formerly Cleveland Shipbuilding [1898-1900])

The Lorain shipyard was started as a division of Cleveland Shipbuilding, shortly before the creation of The American Ship Building Company in 1899.  It continued as a leading builder of lakers until the 1970s, when it was sold to a steel scrap processor.  See the site of the Lorain yard from the air on Google here.

Hull # Original Name Owner Type GT Delivery Disposition
29 Superior City   Laker   1898  
30 Presque Isle   Laker   1898  
31 Clarence A. Black   Laker   1898  
32 Huron   Laker   1898  
33 Pennsylvania   Laker 4,840 1899 Scrapped 1964
34 Henry W. Oliver   Laker 4,909 1899 Scrapped 1967
35 Eureka   Laker 2,122 1899 Scrapped 1916
36 Texas   Laker   1899  
37 John W. Gates Pittsburgh Steamship Laker 5,946 1900 Scrapped 1961
38 James J. Hill Pittsburgh Steamship Laker 6,025 1900 Scrapped 1961
  Malietoa   Laker 5,229 1899 Scrapped 1963
  General Orlando M. Poe   Steamship 5,657 1900 Scrapped 1956
  William P. Palmer   Steamship 2,293 1900 Scrapped 1937
300 William Castle Rhodes Mutual Transit Laker 2,176 1900 Later Ville de Casablanca, sank 1921
301 Lafayette Pittsburgh Steamship Laker 5,113 1900 Sank 1905
302 Princeton   Laker 5,125 1900  
303 Paraguay International Steamship Laker 2,201 1900 Wrecked 1927
304 Asuncion International Steamship Laker 2,196 1900 Scrapped 1924
305 Neptune   Laker 3,717 1901 Later Martian, scrapped 1969
306 Saturn   Laker 3,717 1901 Later Algosoo, scrapped 1965
307 Venus   Laker 3,719 1901 Later Steel Products, scrapped 1961
308 Jupiter   Laker 3,719 1901 Scrapped 1959
309 Frank H. Peavy   Laker 5,002 1901 Later William A. Reiss, scrapped 1935
310 George A. Peavy   Laker   1901 Scrapped 1935
311 William S. Mack   Laker 3,720 1901 Later Algorail, scrapped 1963
312 F. M. Osborne   Laker   1902 Later Munsing, scrapped 1953
313 Frank W. Hart   Laker 4,307 1902 Later Sparta, wrecked 1941
314 Edward N. Saunders   Laker 4,305 1902 Later Negaunee, scrapped 1953
315 C. W. Watson   Laker 4,306 1902 Later Shasta, scrapped 1956
316 Steel King   Laker 4,308 1902 Later Chacornac, scrapped 1953
317 J. M. Jenks   Laker 4,644 1902 Later Ralph S. Caulkens, scrapped 1963
318 Harold B. Nye   Laker 4,310 1902 Later Prindoc, scrapped 1964
319 Frank H. Goodyear John Mitchell Laker 4,815 1902 Sank 1910
320 Moses Taylor   Laker 4,772 1902 Later Soodov, scrapped 1967
321 H. B. Hawgood Pittsburgh Steamship Laker 4,655 1903 Scrapped 1946
322 Hurlburt W. Smith T J McCarthy Laker 4,662 1903 Scrapped 1958
323 Monroe C. Smith Great Lakes Steamship Laker 4,281 1903 Scrapped 1946
324 Lyman B. Smith Great Lakes Steamship