Bethlehem Steel Company, Baltimore MD

(formerly Skinner & Sons [1827-1872], Maister & Reaney [1872-1880], Columbia Iron Works & Dry Dock Company [1880-1899], Baltimore Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company [1899-1906], Skinner Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company [1906-1915] and Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company [1915-1922])


This shipyard was at the foot of Federal Hill and subsequently became Bethlehem's Key Highway repair yard, which is still in operation as General Ship Repair.  (Note that several sources say that it subsequently became Bethlehem's Fairfield yard, but this is clearly incorrect, as the Fairfield yard was the other side of the harbor from Federal Hill.)  See the shipyard from the air on Google here.  If anyone can provide any information about these yards or add to the table below, please e-mail it to me at tim@coltoncompany.com

Yard # USSB # Original Name Original Owner Type Tons Delivered Disposition
Built by Maister & Reaney
    Tench Coxe U.S. Coast Guard Revenue Cutter 39 23-Oct-76 Sold 1893
    Alexander Jones     133 1877  
    Camilla     40 1877  
    Chronometer   Yacht 8 1878  
    Enoch Pratt     571 1878  
    Canton     62 1879  
    F. C. Latrobe     726 1879  
13   Robert Garrett Broadway & Locust Point Ferry 437 1881  
Built by Columbia Iron Works
    Britannia     66 1883  
    Robert Garrett Staten Island Rapid Transit Ferry 1,592 1888 Later Stapleton 1906, Express 1915, York River 1940, scrapped 1956
    Erastus Winan Staten Island Rapid Transit Ferry 1,587 1888  
    Annapolis City of Baltimore Icebreaker 877 1889 Scrapped 1961
    Petrel (PG 2) US Navy Gunboat 890 10-Dec-89 Sold 1920
74   Maverick S.O. Co. of NY Tanker 1,721 May-90 Sank 1917
    Montgomery (C 9) US Navy Cruiser 2,089 21-Jun-94 Later Anniston 1918, sold 1919
    Detroit (C 10) US Navy Cruiser 2,089 20-Jul-93 Sold 1910
    Plunger (SS 0) US Navy Submarine 149   Cancelled 1900 after trials
    Foote (TB 3) US Navy Torpedo Boat 142 7-Aug-97 Later CTB 1 1918, sold 1920
    Rodgers (TB 4) US Navy Torpedo Boat 142 2-Apr-98 Later CTB 2 1918, sold 1920
    Winslow (TB 5) US Navy Torpedo Boat 142 29-Dec-97 Sold 1911
    McKee (TB 18) US Navy Torpedo Boat 65 16-May-98 Scuttled 1920
    Argonaut     15 1897  
84   Cumberland Consolidation Coal Tug 377 Jun-98 Later John Roen V 1950, Trio Bravo 1981, scuttled 1981
85   Piedmont Consolidation Coal Tug 391 Jan-99 Later Harry F. Keeler 1928, scrapped 1935
87   Savage Consolidation Coal Tug 410 1899 Scrapped 1939
88   Hartford Hartford & NY Tptn. Passenger Ship 1,488 Sep-99 Scrapped 1937
90   Sachem   Tug 195 1900  
    Seminole U.S. Coast Guard Revenue Cutter 845 3-Sep-00 To FERA 1935
    Tingey (TB 34) US Navy Torpedo Boat 165 7-Jan-04 Later CTB 17 1918, sold 1920
Built by Baltimore Shipbuilding & Dry Dock
  Queen Anne Queen Anne Ferry Co. Passenger Ship 651 1899 Later Rockaway 1925, scrapped 1930
  Magnolia     560 1903  
  Ivy     560 1903  
    Winnebago