Cowles Shipyard
Buffalo NY
Most recent update: May 4, 2016.
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.
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| 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 |