Ore Steamship Company and the Ore Navigation Corpoartion were subsidiaries of the Bethlehem Steel Company founded in

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in 1927. Ore Steamship Company was a proprietary company that was founded so Bethlehem Steel could move goods needed by Bethlehem Steel Company. Ore Steamship Company would transport iron ore to the Bethlehem Steel mills on the Atlantic coast. Some ships took steel and steel products to

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s. Port of Baltimore was a major Bethlehem Steel port, the dock was 2,200 feet long in order to load and unload three large, 28,000-ton cargo ships at the same time. *Ore ships: *SS ''Texar'', was ''Harold O. Wilson'' *SS ''Bethflor'', steel-carrying cargo ship *''Lagonda'' 1896 cargo ship *''Cambria'' * SS ''William H. Donner'', 1914 cargo ship *''ELBA'' *''Chilore'' *''Cubore'' *''Fletmore'' *''Marore'' *''Oremore'' *''Santmor'' *''Steelmore'' *''Venmore'' was built at

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583-feet long and 78-feet wide, had steam turbine engines to a single propeller, top speed of 16 knots, had 7 sister ships. Scrapped in Santander, Spain in 1970. * E.H. Utley, built Min 1910 by Detroit Shipbuilding Co. *Bethcoal No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, 1962 Hopper Barge *Punta Aramaya, was built at Orinoco River in Venezuela">Orinoco.html" ;"title="Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, 381-feet long and 64-feet wide, work on the Orinoco">Orinoco River in Venezuela, operated by Iron Mines Company. Hd 4 sister ships. **Tug: *Tunism, tugboat, built by St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Company, scrapped 1960.Tunism, tugboat
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