Eastern Shipbuilding
Groton CT
Eastern Shipbuilding only built two ships, but what ships! The Minnesota and the Dakota were by far the biggest ships ever built in the U.S. at that time They were designed to carry 2,000 passengers between the US West Coast and Japan, averaging 14 knots.
| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| 1 | 201040 | Minnesota | Great Northern Shipping | passenger freighter | 20,718 | 622 | 17 Aug 1904 | scrapped 1923 |
| 2 | 201709 | Dakota | Great Northern Shipping | passenger freighter | 20,714 | 622 | 19 Mar 1905 | wrecked and lost 1907 |