Eastern Shipbuilding

Groton CT

Most recent update: May 20, 2016.

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.

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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

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