Cowles Shipyard ~ Shipbuilding History

Cowles Shipyard

Buffalo NY

Cowles Shipyard Co. was started in 1899 by Benjamin L. Cowles, the owner of Cowles Towing: it closed in 1934 but does not seem to have built any new boats after WWI. If anyone can tell me where exactly this shipyard was, and/or add to the table below, please send your input to me.

	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	LOA	Built	Notes
	93098	Major Symons	Cowles Towing	tugboat	43		1900	later J. E. Carroll 1921, T. V. O'Connor 1930, abandoned 1940
	93155	Major Kingman	Cowles Towing	tugboat	47		1901	abandoned 1928
	200072	Planet	William Wilson	tugboat	24		1903	later Racey 1909 (Canada ON 100630), Paul Evans 1953, Racey 1982, Bytown Pumper 1990, The S. S. Pumper 1997
	201991	Theodore E. Cowles	Cowles Towing	tugboat	33		1905	later Joe Van 1955
	204106	John Kelderhouse	Empire Engineering	tugboat	100		1907	later Sachem 1911, Derek E 1990
	205063	Walter Mattick	Cowles Towing	tugboat	102		1908	later Merchant 1919, to USACE 1924 as Marinette, sold 1947 as Esther S (Canada ON 179138), Mount Mackay 1966
	205312	Erastus C. Knight	Frank P. Coyle	tugboat	47		1908	later Aubrey 1918, Edward E. Gillen 1964, sank off Milwaukee 1981
	205618	Grover Cleveland	City of Buffalo PD	passenger	59		1908	to USAQMD 1918, sold 1920 as Newarker, retired 1971
8	163797	Lackawanna		dredge	331		1909
	206433	Favorite		passenger	155		1909
	207404	Crescent		freighter	385		1910
		Erie		tanker	14		1911
	209385	Frank Lenahan		tugboat	35		1911
	210695	John Henry		tugboat	35		1912
	211249	Hedge Wickwire	Wickwire Steel	tugboat	83		1913	later Liberty 1916, Matton 20 1936, scrapped 1974
	211702	Colonel Ward	Cowles Towing	tugboat	41		1913	later Ross Coddington 1924, Joseph J. Olivieri 1966, John Michael 1980
	212807	Arthur Schoellkopf		tugboat	15		1914
	212902	Samuel J. Dark	Cowles Towing	tugboat	58		1914	later William R. Panton 1940, Wilcox II 1965
	213036	Wm. D. Kropp	William D. Kropp	tugboat	33		1915