Great Lakes Engineering Works was established in 1903 on the Detroit River, in Ecorse MI. In 1905, the company took over the Columbia Iron Works, in St. Clair MI, which at that time had only built two ships. The yard in Ashtabula OH was started in 1912. The Ecorse yard was later renamed the River Rouge yard, as a result of reincorporation of the community. GLEW closed in 1960. In the table below, the ships built in St. Clair have an S after their hull numbers and the ships built in Ashtabula have an A. Note that the Ashtabula yard had its own series of hull numbers from 1919 onwards. See the site of the Ecorse yard from the air on Google here.
| Hull # | Original Name | Original Owner | Type | GT | DWT | Delivery | Disposition |
| Built in St. Clair by Columbia Iron Works Before Its Acquisition | |||||||
| 1 | Winnebago | Iroquois Transit Co. | Cargo Ship | 1,091 | Jul-03 | Wrecked off Point Arena 1909 | |
| 2 | John C. Howard | Hall Coal Co. | Cargo Ship | 1,244 | Aug-03 | Later Melville Dollar 1908, Jinyo Mary 1917, Shin Ping 1920, scrapped 1930 | |
| Built by Great Lakes Engineering Works in All Three Locations | |||||||
| 1 | R W England | England Transit Co. | Laker | 3,887 | Jun-04 | Later Frank Seither 1920, Fontana 1923, scrapped 1960 | |
| 2 | Detroit | Michigan Central RR | RR Ferry | 2,220 | Dec-04 | Converted to barge 1969, laid up in Detroit | |
| 3 | Earthquake | Dump Scow | 384 | 1904 | |||
| 4 | No name | Great Lakes Eng. Works | Dry-Dock Sections | 1904 | |||
| 5 | James E Davidson | Inter Ocean SS | Laker | 6,206 | Jun-05 | Scrapped 1963 | |
| 6 | Mason & Hoover | Zenith SS | Laker | 5,841 | Jul-05 | Later E. M. Young 1928, Sparkman D. Foster 1954, scrapped 1963 | |
| 7 | Superior | Western Transit | Laker | 4,544 | Aug-05 | Later Ralph Budd 1927, L. A. McCorquadale 1959, scrapped 1966 | |
| 8 | Peter White | Presque Isle Transit | Laker | 6,184 | Sep-05 | Later John C. Hay 1959, scrapped 1961 | |
| 9 | William G. Mather | Cleveland Cliffs Iron | Laker | 7,500 | 11,300 | Oct-05 | Later J. H. Sheadle 1925, H. L. Gobeille 1955, Nicolet 1965, scrapped 1996 |
| 10 | Delaware | Erie & Western Tptn. | Package | 3,901 | Nov-05 | Later Fred W. Sargent 1927, Papudo 1945, Rauli 1954, scrapped 1961 | |
| 11S | George H Russell | Gilchrist Tptn. | Laker | 4,978 | Jul-05 | Later Canopus 1913, scrapped 1962 | |
| 12S | Frank J Hecker | Gilchrist Tptn. | Laker | 4,978 | Oct-05 | Later Perseus 1913, foundered on tow to scrap yard 1961 | |
| 13 | No name | Great Lakes Eng. Works | Dry-Dock Sections | 1905 | |||
| 14 | Frank C Ball | Globe SS | Laker | 6,909 | Apr-06 | Later J. R. Sensibar 1930, Conallison 1981, scrapped 1984 | |
| 15 | B F Jones | Interstate SS | Laker | 6,939 | Apr-06 | Later crane lighter SSC-1 1956, in collision and scrapped 1955 | |
| 16 | James Laughlin | Interstate SS | Laker | 6,939 | May-06 | Later Helen Evans 1964, scrapped 1980 | |
| 17 | William P. Snyder | Shenango SS | Laker | 6,939 | 10,750 | Apr-06 | Later Elton Hoyt II 1926, Alex D. Chisholm 1952, Medusa Challenger 1966, Southdown Challenger 1999, St. Mary's Challenger 2004, active |
| 18 | Handy Andy | Dunbar & Sullivan | Dredge | 471 | 1905 | ||
| 19S | Ashtabula | Pennsylvania & Ontario SS | RR Ferry | 2,670 | May-06 | In collision and sank off Ashtabula 1958, raised and scrapped 1959 | |
| 20 | Michigan | Grand Island | Laker | 6,924 | Jul-06 | Later Goudreaux 1966, scrapped 1969 | |
| 21 | Ishpeming | Grand Island | Laker | 6,924 | Aug-06 | Later Thornhill 1966, scrapped 1980 | |
| 22 | J H Sheadle | Cleveland Cliffs Iron | Laker | 6,924 | Oct-06 | Later F. A. Bailey 1925, La Salle 1930, Meaford 1966, Pierson Independent 1979, Company 1980, scrapped 1980 | |
| 23 | John M McKerchey | John M McKerchey | ??? | 732 | Jun-06 | Sank off Lorain 1950 | |
| 24 | E L Wallace | Northern Transit | Laker | 4,956 | Oct-06 | Later Marquette 1917, Poweraux Roger 1963, scrapped 1965 | |
| 25S | John Mitchell | Cornell SS | Laker | 4,468 | Mar-07 | In collision and sank off Vermillion Point 1911 | |
| 26S | William B Davock | Vulcan SS | Laker | 4,468 | May-07 | Foundered off Pentwater 1940 | |
| 27 | Thomas F Cole | Pittsburgh SS | Laker | 7,268 | Mar-07 | Scrapped 1980 | |
| 28 | Wilpen | Shenango SS | Laker | 7,612 | Jun-07 | Later David P. Thompson 1926, Joseph S. Young 1969, scrapped 1979 | |
| 29 | D O Mills | Mesaba SS | Laker | 6,598 | Apr-07 | Later G. A. Tomlinson 1960, scrapped 1980 | |
| 30 | Milinokett | Milinokett SS | Laker | 6,215 | Aug-07 | Later Herbert K. Oakes 1916, Steelton 1925, Cornwall 1943, scrapped 1950 | |
| 31 | John J Boland | York Transit | Laker | 6,035 | Oct-07 | Later Thunder Bay Quarries 1939, Harris N. Snyder 1953, scrapped 1974 | |
| 32 | Jacob T Kopp | Pennsylvania SS | Laker | 6,035 | May-08 | Later G. N. Wilson 1928, Consumers Power 1931, Harry Yates 1934, Edmund P. Smith 1939, scrapped 1963 | |
| 33 | Josiah G Munro | Frontier SS | Laker | 6,971 | Dec-07 | Later Effingham B. Morris 1916, Lebanon 1925, scrapped 1967 | |
| 34 | No name | Detroit River Tunnel | Tunnel Sections | 1907 | |||
| 35 | Rochester | Western Transit | Package Boat | 4,571 | < | ||