Pre-WWII Construction by Other Boatbuilders on the Great Lakes and Inland Waterways
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| Builder | Location | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| Illinois | ||||||||||
| Alford, Fred E. | Waukegan IL | G. W. Falcon | 1936 | |||||||
| Farley & Co. | Chicago IL | YCF-8 | US Navy | car float | 150 | 128 | 1918 | disposed-of 1946 | ||
| Farley & Co. | Chicago IL | YCF-9 | US Navy | car float | 150 | 128 | 1918 | disposed-of 1946 | ||
| Illinois Dredging | IL | G. L. No. 8 | 217 | 1895 | ||||||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-491 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-492 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-493 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-494 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-495 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-496 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-497 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-498 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Layton Co., B. | Quincy IL | YC-499 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-445 | US Navy | open lighter | 75 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | |||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-446 | US Navy | open lighter | 75 | 1918 | ||||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-447 | US Navy | open lighter | 75 | 1918 | ||||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-448 | US Navy | open lighter | 75 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | |||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-457 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-458 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-459 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-460 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YM-12, sold 1972 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-461 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-462 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YFN-245 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-463 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-464 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-465 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YPK-5, disposed-of 1946 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-466 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-467 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YFN-218, to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-468 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YE-36, YFN-240, destroyed 1945 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-469 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YE-37, YFN-241 | ||
| Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | YC-470 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Indiana | ||||||||||
| American Steel Dredge | Fort Wayne, In | Tommy B. | tugboat | 1938 | ||||||
| Iowa | ||||||||||
| Keokuk Steel | Keokuk IA | Warsaw | 51 | 1914 | ||||||
| Kentucky | ||||||||||
| Olcott Machine Works | Paducah, Ky | Scott Richard | towboat | 1936 | ||||||
| Olcott Machine Works | Paducah, Ky | Alexandra M. | towboat | 1937 | ||||||
| Michigan | ||||||||||
| Aladdin Company | Bay City MI | Sovereign | Otto E. Sovereign | yacht | 84 | 1927 | later Barbara, Kalolah, to USN 1943 as YP-340, to MARAD 1946 | |||
| Contractors Service Co. | Detroit MI | YC-623 | US Navy | open lighter | 125 | 1918 | later YF-256 | |||
| Contractors Service Co. | Detroit MI | YC-624 | US Navy | open lighter | 125 | 1918 | ||||
| Contractors Service Co. | Detroit MI | YC-625 | US Navy | open lighter | 125 | 1918 | ||||
| Contractors Service Co. | Detroit MI | YC-626 | US Navy | open lighter | 125 | 1918 | ||||
| Corsair Boat Company | Trenton MI | PC-4300 | USCG | picket boat | 1931-32 | later 38314 | ||||
| Corsair Boat Company | Trenton MI | PC-4301 | USCG | picket boat | 1931-32 | later 38315 | ||||
| Corsair Boat Company | Trenton MI | PC-4302 | USCG | picket boat | 1931-32 | later 38316 | ||||
| Corsair Boat Company | Trenton MI | PC-4303 | USCG | picket boat | 1931-32 | later 38317 | ||||
| Corsair Boat Company | Trenton MI | PC-4304 | USCG | picket boat | 1931-32 | later 38318 | ||||
| Corsair Boat Company | Trenton MI | PC-4305 | USCG | picket boat | 1931-32 | later 38319 | ||||
| Drackes, Charles | Wyandotte, MI | Neptune | 1929 | |||||||
| Imperial Shipbuilding | Detroit MI | YC-477 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Imperial Shipbuilding | Detroit MI | YC-478 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | lost 1920 | ||
| Imperial Shipbuilding | Detroit MI | YC-479 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Imperial Shipbuilding | Detroit MI | YC-480 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YFN-186 | ||
| Imperial Shipbuilding | Detroit MI | YC-481 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Michigan Alkali Company | MI | Albert L. Trombley | barge | 70 | 1913 | |||||
| Michigan Alkali Company | MI | Michigan Alkali No. 1 | 34 | 1913 | ||||||
| Racine Truscott | Muskegon, MI | Gen C. B. Sears | US Army | 186 | 1915 | later Warrengas, Terri B, Warsaw, Signet Ranger | ||||
| Missouri | ||||||||||
| Ellaby, A. A. | Harbor Point, Mo | Sydney Davis | towboat | 1937 | ||||||
| Erlbacher, Eddie | Cape Girardeau, Mo | Miss Anne | towboat | 1931 | ||||||
| New York | ||||||||||
| Glove Shipyard, Inc. | Buffalo, NY | Amber Mae | 1922 | |||||||
| Hingston, W. J. | Buffalo, NY | Joe Van | tugboat | 1905 | ||||||
| Maglehan, Peter | Athens NY | Pontiac Right Arm | US Navy | tugboat | 401 | 1891 | 1898 renamed Passaic (YT-20) 1918, sold 1922 | |||
| Riley, Hubert | Buffalo, NY | Jenny Lynn | tugboat | 1918 | ||||||
| Ohio | ||||||||||
| Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. | Ohio | barge | 758 | 1906 | ||||||
| Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. | Drill Boat No. 4 | 489 | 1908 | |||||||
| Hansen Welding Co., Hans | Toledo, Oh | Baldy B. | tugboat | 1932 | ||||||
| Hansen Welding Co., Hans | Toledo, Oh | Akikita | towboat | 1938 | ||||||
| Interlake Engineering | Cleveland OH | YC-486 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Interlake Engineering | Cleveland OH | YC-487 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | |||
| Interlake Engineering | Cleveland OH | YC-488 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YFN-226, to MARAD 1948 | ||
| Interlake Engineering | Cleveland OH | YC-489 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | later YNG-35 | ||
| Interlake Engineering | Cleveland OH | YC-490 | US Navy | open lighter | 170 | 110 | 1918 | lost 1946 | ||
| Kaltenbach Corp. | Bedford OH | YD-66 | US Navy | derrick barge | 1933 | |||||
| Kaltenbach Corp. | Bedford OH | YD-67 | US Navy | derrick barge | 1933 | |||||
| Warren City Tank & Boiler | Warren OH | LCM | US Navy | landing craft | 1944 | later Peggy Foss 1950 | ||||
| Wellman Engineering | Cleveland OH | YD-26 | US Navy | derrick barge | 2,334 | 142 | 1917 | sold 2003 | ||
| Wellman Engineering | Cleveland OH | YD-197 | US Navy | derrick barge | 1,407 | 140 | 1956 | ex-BD-6063, sold 1999 | ||
| Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| American Boiler Works | Erie, PA | Dauntless | 1937 | |||||||
| Carnegie Steel Co. | Clairton, PA | Courtney M. | towboat | 1925 | ||||||
| Tennessee | ||||||||||
| Marine Construction Co. | Memphis, Tn | Kangaroo | towboat | 1926 | ||||||
| West Virginia | ||||||||||
| Venable, W. W. | Charleston, WV | Philo | towboat | 1930 | ||||||
| Wisconsin | ||||||||||
| Milwaukee Bridge Co. | WI | No. 24 | barge | 336 | 1909 | |||||