William H. Radcliffe ~ Shipbuilding History

William H. Radcliffe

Cleveland OH

William Radcliffe's yard built both schooners and steam ships, so it must have made the transition to modern shipbuilding, but I can find no other information about it. It was sold to Globe Iron Works in 1890, subsequently becoming part of AmShip Cleveland. The yard was located at the foot of West 45th Street, in the area where there was a concentration of shipyards at that time.

O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	LOA	Built	Notes
85276	Genoa		schooner	731		1873	abandoned 1935
95278	Havana		freighter	1,041		1874	abandoned 1912 in Erie PA
25888	V. Swain		freighter	955		1874	burned 1907 at Superior WI
76080	John N. Glidden	Philip Minch	freighter	1,322		1879	collision and lost 1903 in St Clair Flats Canal
105919	A. Everett	Philip Minch	freighter	1,088		1880	foundered 1895 off Point aux Barques
157031	Dreadnaught		tugboat	31		1881	abandoned 1922
110486	Rufus P. Ranney	M. A. Bradley	freighter	1,392		1881	later Northwestern 1917, wrecked 1920 near Matanzas FL
110518	George R. Paige		tugboat	34		1882	scuttled 1905 in Lake Erie
110518	Robert Wallace		freighter	1,189		1882	foundered 1902 near Two Harbors MN
157128	David Wallace		freighter	1,088		1884	foundered 1915 off Matinicus ME
	J. H. Outhwaite		freighter	1,304		1886	wrecked and burned at Little Point Sable 1905
91922	Maurice B. Grover	M. A. Bradley	schooner	1,995		1887	barge 1906, abandoned 1915
120697	Frank L. Vance	Milwaukee S.S.	freighter	1,730		1887	burned 1910 near Ludington MI
81143	Wiley M. Egan	Fitzgerald, Armour & Egan	freighter	1,677		1887	Canadian 1912 (ON 111965), scuttled 1919 in Shelter Bay
150427	Philip Minch	Philip Minch	freighter	1,988		1888	burned 1904 off Marblehead OH
85996	Gladstone	M. A. Bradley	freighter	2,112		1888	damaged by ice in the Pine River 1919 and scuttled
96054	Hesper		freighter	1,858		1890	wrecked 1905 in Beaver Bay