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Dolomite Products, Rochester NY

Most recent update: December 30, 2008.


Dolomite Products was, and still is, a producer of aggregates and other construction materials.  It started a shipyard in 1932, on the barge canal in the Rochester suburb of Pittsford NY.  Click here to see one of the unusual Dolomite tankers.  If anyone can provide any more information about either the yard or the ships it built, please e-mail it to me at timcolton@aol.com

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Ship Type Tons Delivery Disposition
1 Dolomite 1 Dolomite Marine Self-unloader 934 1934 Later Alkaliner 1940, Nansound 1941, missing, presumed lost in the US Gulf 1942
2 Dolomite 2 Dolomite Marine Tanker (conversion) 1,958 1938 Originally  Thomas Maytham (built 1893), later Motorex 1941, sunk by gunfire and lost 1942
3 Dolomite 3/Petroheat Dolomite Marine Tanker 2,345 1938 Later Arriaga 1942, torpedoed and lost 1942
4 Dolomite 4 Dolomite Marine Tanker 2,249 1938 Later Nickeliner 1940, torpedoed and lost 1943
  BCS 312-386 US Army 75 Barges, Sectional   5/42-7/42  
  BCS 716-751 US Army 36 Barges, Sectional   6/42-10/42  
  SB 1-3 US Army 3 Barges, Sectional   4/43 Later USED 78, 80, 82
  BD 1199-1223 US Army 25 Barges, Derrick   7/43-7/44  
  BCS 1606-1620 US Army 15 Barges, Sectional   9/43-10/43