(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 |