Alex Anderson
Marine City MI
Most recent update: May 8, 2016.
Alex Anderson's yard built both schooners and steam ships, so it must have made the transition to modern shipbuilding, but I can find no information about it except that it was at the foot of Broadway, the central point of Marine City.
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
29909 | Agnes | barge | 55 | 1879 | later Isle Royale 1884, sank 1885 off Isle Royale | |||
76183 | James P. Donaldson | Robert Holland | freighter | 521 | 1880 | Canadian 1921 (ON 116575), burned 1923 off Fort William | ||
110504 | R. J. Gordon | freighter | 187 | 1881 | abandoned 1916 | |||
76450 | J. W. Westcott | schooner | 522 | 1883 | scrapped 1921 in Detroit | |||
150460 | P. J. Ralph | C. D. Holland | freighter | 964 | 1889 | foundered 1924 off South Manitou I. | ||
130488 | Newaygo | freighter | 906 | 1890 | wrecked 1903 in Georgian Bay | |||
120834 | F. W. Fletcher | E. C. Recor | freighter | 496 | 1891 | abandoned 1919 in Havana | ||
106928 | Alex Anderson | schooner | 738 | 1892 | foundered 1916 off Sable Island | |||
96166 | Harvey J. Kendall | H. K. Kendall | freighter | 398 | 1892 | scrapped 1933 | ||
81432 | Wotan | C. A. Hurd | freighter | 886 | 1893 | later Swift 1929, burned 1935 in Sturgeon Bay | ||
3625 | Biwabik | schooner | 1,402 | 1894 | abandoned 1933 | |||
25299 | Unique | freighter | 381 | 1894 | burned 1915 in New York Harbor | |||
86323 | George Farwell | Ecorse Transportation | freighter | 977 | 1895 | wrecked 1906 on Cape Henry | ||
100653 | Isaac Lincoln | A. F. Price | freighter | 376 | 1898 | later Ralph T. Holcomb 1905, abandoned 1931 | ||
92937 | Maude | freighter | 98 | 1899 | burned 1917 in St. Clair | |||
107557 | Alva S. Chisholm, Jr. | Kelley Island Lime | freighter | 435 | 1900 | burned 1935 at Sandusky |