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! 8 : Lake Launchings For Five Years Past. passenger . During 1906 the ship building of the great lakes, exclusive of the Canadian yards, launched forty-seven vessels, of which forty were bulk freighters, two steamers, two package freighters, two car ferries and one VESSELS LAUNCHED ON THE GREAT LAKES DURING 1906. AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING CO., TAE MARINE REVIEW one car ferry. These twenty-nine bulk freighters have 260,200 gross tons car- rying capacity on a single trip or 5,- 204,000 gross tons in an average sea- son of twenty trips. During 1904 lake snip yards ers have a carrying capacity of 381,- 000 tons on a single trip or 7,620,000 age gross tons in an twenty trips. During 1905 the ship builders of the launched steamers, of which twenty-nine were bulk great lakes freighters, average two package freighters, season car seven were bulk freighters, two pack- freighters, one of three passenger steamers. ferry 'and The seven bulk freighters have a carrying capa- city of 51,300 tons on a single trip thirty-two or 1,026,000 in an average season of twenty trips. and During 1903 lake ship yards launched fifty vessels of which. forty- two were bulk freighters, five car fer- ries 'and three passenger steamers. These forty-two. bulk freighters have a carrying capacity of 213,250 tons on a single trip or 4,265,000 tons in an ™ CLEVELAND, 0. Length over- ¢ : = Soallls Carrying Where built. Type. Name of Vessel. ft. Capacity. Name and address of owner. Losin ielanter deeceh Sellwood 545 10,000 Capt. John Mitchell, Cleveland. aye Doe eaueNren ars eee ee is oa a me one : Gai ve eee ee Pa. eed WISVEIAN G6 os 6 eee a aes reighter arles ebar $2 ' ilson Transi 0:; ev 2 Og oe eo ae a Ook ses Frcvehter Loftus Cuddy 545 10,000 Capt. John Mitchell, Cleveland. We Superior... sok. cee ye lecet Freighter Abraham Stearn 545 : 10,000 W. . Hawgood, Cleveland. Cleveland tac. ean es Freighter -David Z. Norton 500 8,000 _ Capt. W. C. Richardson, Cleveland. Bay eCity. ie ies Freighter John Sherwin 534 9,500 Gilchrist Transp. Co., - Cleveland. Wigan OGG: in Gos Sec ee Freighter Harry Coulby : | ane en Eade gale on oe Mi oraia oe Sy ee Freighter Harvey D. Goulder 4 i enry awgoo evelan Sy CHICAGO ee. wes eek Freighter J. Pierpont Morgan 600. 12,000 _ Pittsburg Steamship Co., Cleveland, Cleveland: Gy ea os Pee. oRrtr, Ogdensburg _ ioe 255 3,000 © Rutland Transit Co., Ogdensburg, N. Y. ASOTANE Geo R ek ees ee uteighiter Henry B. Smith 545 10,000 We Al ®&, oA He Hawgood, Cleveland. Wyandotte: 2s. 0,65 Bes bass) Str Brittania 189 Detroit, B. I. & Windsor Ferry Co., Detroit. Olevelanid soo eee eet iy Se Pkg. Frtr Rutland ; 255 3,000 Rutland Transit Co... Ogdensburg, NN. <Y. Wyandotte eos shea' recs Hyeighter or os Shaughnessy oy aes 2, ce gat ene : Wo Superior = 6.0.5... PoC ES: Freighter ie. Sarling 54 10,000 akes, Detroit ich Wie tran GADY Gos Geek ies Freighter Charles Weston . §69 11,000 Tonawanda Transit Co. N. Tonawanda, N. ae Se Chicave eo ces Freighter Henry H. Rogers 609 12,000 Pittsburg Steamship Co., Cleveland. Clevelang oo: oe ae Freighter es G. Pollock Pie Ae W. ae pea oe O. MORAN see ks sie es Freighter : . Riddle 552 0,000 A. owgoo leveland,. O. WiwaniOtte 9.62 ies tee ce. Freighter Joshua Rhoades 440 6,500 W. H. Becker, Cleveland, ©; POnatie se ae tie pees Freighter A. Y. Townsend "2692 12,000 Cambria Steel Co., Philadelphia. are ee sme ncn rere pe Oe eae ae tna aa prune Co., Cleveland. PAY ACTIN Ay Sais Slterwle en o's e Freighter enry. A. awgoo $52 a ; : j awgood, Cleveland, O. & pee eu ees al iene ee rer ee ae 6,500 ee ee Sullivan, Chicago. ee Preemie DeoR Hoaga es Fe siccunt Cleveland ©. cect ee et Freighter Peter A. B. - Widener 600 12,000 Pittsburg Steamship Co., Cleveland, O. NRO p ANN yee Sas aie oe Oe Freighter James S. Dunham 440 6,500 Capt. Dennis Sullivan, Chicago. S. Chicago ............... Freighter Di Jo Morrell 602 12,000 Cambria Steel Co., Philadelphia. Bay CY oe a ese Freighter Samuel Mather' 5 959 10,000 Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland. W, Superior ....6:...0-.-- Freighter Sheldon Parks oe 10,000 W. A. & A. B. Hawgood, Cleveland, O. S0TAIN yee ee es Freighter James IF. Morrow 440 6,500 Joseph Sellwood, Duluth, Minn. Bay Oity .50....-0. 60.2 Freighter Gen. Garretson 540 10,000 Gilchrist Transportation Co., Cleveland. S. Chicago eee Hoan Freighter B. Kerr 605 12,000 Weston Transportation Co., Tonawanda, Neey: GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING WORKS, DETROIT, MICH. : Length over- : all. Carrying i Where built. Type. Name of Vessel. Ete Capacity. Name and address of owner. HCOESO eG ae ois psig ese aes Freighter William P. «Snyder 550 10,000 Shenango Steamship Co., Cleveland. HCOTSC 1s. ee eee eee Freighter James Laughlin 530 10,000 Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. , Pittsburg. Bt lait A Poe ea Car Ferry Ashtabula 350 30 Cars J. W.. Ellsworth & Co., Cleveland Oe oo re eo .sand Dredge John M. McKerckey 170 John McKerchey, Detroit, Mich. BieoGse i soy se es Peeighter Michigan 559 10,000 Cleveland-Cliffs I, Co., Cleveland, COUSS 5 se cs an ees els a Ishpeming 559 10,000 Cleveland-Cliffs I. Co.. Cleveland. PUCOT IE Gr oo ee sie ec ve cee Freighter KE. L. Wallace 445 7,000 Dearborn Transit Co., Detroit. oe Diocese whe ee cn ane = J Neca =o) 10,000 Cleveland-Cliffs I. Co., Cleveland. 1 BA re ei eek oe reighter John itche 14.() 6,500 Charles W. Elphicke, Chicago, LOLEDO. SHIP: BUILDING CO., TOLEDO.-O; Length Oover- all, Carryin Where built. Type. Name of Vessel. ft. Capacity: Name and address of owner. MIOIGRO 0 ee eee Freighter Eugene Zimmerman 590 8,000 Ex S$. Sullivan, Toledo; O. " @UEdO ho eee as DR a es Pass. Str. Theodore Roosevelt 289 Indiana Transp. Co: Chicago ll Moledon? 2.55 iss oe Freighter Sierra 458 7,500 Interocean Nav. Co., Duluth. : 'CANADIAN SHIP BUILDING CO, 'TORONTO, ONT. Length 3 aover- all, Carryit Where built. Type. Name of Vessel. ft. \ Canaciee, Name and address of owner. PEOUOMIO (ooh cue Ce es nas Pass' Str. Cayuga 317% Niagara Navigation Co., Toronto. COLLINGWOOD SHIP BUILDING roe one Ne yooD, ONT. ength over- all, Carrying Where built, : Type. Name of Vessel. ft Capacity. Name and add ; A ; : , address of Collingwood .............. Freighter Midland Prince 486 8,000 Midland Nav. Co., Midland, Ox. sand dredge. The forty buik freight- launched thirteen vessels 'of which aveftage season of twenty trips. It should be stated, however, that ten of these freighters were built by Mr. Wolvin for St. Lawrence river trade and are actively engaged in that ser- vice, but as they are available for the ore trade, they have been classed as bulk freighters with an average capa-