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Design 1020 Ship
The Design 1020 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1020) was a steel-hulled cargo ship design approved for mass production by the United States Shipping Boards Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFT) in World War I. They were referred to as the "Laker"-type. Production was spread out over ten shipyards, the majority of which were owned by American Ship Building Company *American Ship Building Company (21 ships), 10 at their Cleveland, Ohio shipyard and 11 at their Lorain, Ohio shipyard; * Superior Shipbuilding Company (ASBC) (6 ships) at their Superior, Wisconsin shipyard; * Buffalo Shipbuilding Company (ASBC) (5 ships) at their Buffalo, New York shipyard; * Chicago Shipbuilding Company (ASBC) (9 ships) at their Chicago, Illinois shipyard; *Detroit Shipbuilding Company (ASBC) (15 ships) at their Wyandotte, Michigan shipyard; *Globe Shipbuilding Company (6 ships) at their Superior, Wisconsin shipyard; * McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company (10 ships) at their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Shipbuilding Company
The American Ship Building Company was the dominant shipbuilder on the Great Lakes before the World War II, Second World War. It started as Cleveland Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio in 1888 and opened the yard in Lorain, Ohio in 1898. It changed its name to the American Ship Building Company in 1900, when it acquired Superior Shipbuilding, in Superior, Wisconsin; Toledo Shipbuilding, in Toledo, Ohio; and West Bay Shipbuilding, in West Bay City, Michigan. With the coming of World War I, the company also acquired Buffalo Dry Dock, in Buffalo, New York; Chicago Shipbuilding, in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and Detroit Shipbuilding, in Wyandotte, Michigan. American Shipbuilding ranked 81st among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. The Lorain Yard The Lorain, Ohio Yard served as the main facility of the company after World War II and to this day five of the 13 separate ore carriers on the Great Lakes were built in Lorain, including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |