Wolf & Davidson
Milwaukee WI
Most recent update: May 18, 2016.
This yard was started by James M. Jones, on what is now known as Jones Island. After several changes of ownership and location, it became Wolf & Davidson in 1867 and continued under that name until closing in 1892. The yard was located at the foot of Washington Street. See the site from the air on Google here.
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
Built by Ellsworth & Davidson | ||||||||
24236 | Tanner | schooner | 622 | 1863 | wrecked 1875 near Milwaukee WI | |||
18173 | Nelson | bark | 503 | 1866 | foundered 1899 off Grand Marais MI | |||
50395 | Milton | schooner | 131 | 1867 | stranded 1885 at Two Rivers WI | |||
Built by Wolf & Davidson | ||||||||
105030 | Angus Smith | schooner | 641 | 1871 | abandoned 1910 | |||
75593 | Joseph Paige | schooner | 626 | 1872 | wrecked 1897 | |||
20468 | Penokee | schooner | 333 | 1872 | abandoned 1923 | |||
105471 | Alice B. Norris | schooner | 628 | 1872 | abandoned 1923 | |||
115227 | Saveland | schooner | 689 | 1873 | wrecked 1903 | |||
85374 | George G. Houghton | schooner | 332 | 1873 | sank 1907 | |||
90583 | Marengo | schooner | 648 | 1873 | wrecked 1912 | |||
140062 | Lem Ellsworth | schooner | 342 | 1874 | foundered 1894 | |||
90719 | Moonlight | schooner | 777 | 1874 | foundered 1903 | |||
135116 | E. D. Holton | tugboat | 25 | 1874 | burned 1931 | |||
120210 | Flora | schooner | 532 | 1875 | later Urania 1899, Flora 1905, scrapped 1912 | |||
75867 | James McGordon | tugboat | 54 | 1876 | later J. C. Evans 1898, scrapped 1914 | |||
110384 | Resumption | schooner | 294 | 1879 | wrecked 1914 | |||
150205 | Progress | Wolf & Davidson | freighter | 1,596 | 1880 | barge 1908, deleted 1927 | ||
125799 | Crawford | tugboat | 30 | 1880 | scrapped 1908 | |||
91272 | Minnesota | Inter Ocean Transportation | freighter | 1,138 | 1880 | burned Algonac MI 1903 | ||
3163 | Business | Wolf & Davidson | freighter | 985 | 1881 | abandoned 1912 | ||
95651 | Helen | schooner | 119 | 1881 | foundered 1886 | |||
76317 | Joseph Goldsmith | tugboat | 52 | 1882 | abandoned 1903 | |||
126009 | Chicago | tugboat | 40 | 1882 | scrapped 1915 | |||
76392 | Jim Sheriffs | freighter | 847 | 1883 | later Peters 1897, Charles Horn 1915, James Dempsey 1920, burned Manistee 1922 | |||
76518 | James Mowat | schooner | 523 | 1884 | wrecked 1919 | |||
81112 | W. J. Carter | freighter | 317 | 1886 | foundered off Brighton 1923 | |||
81164 | William H. Wolf | Wolf & Davidson | freighter | 2,265 | 1887 | burned at Woodtick Is 1921 | ||
110724 | Roswell P. Flower | Milwaukee S.S. | freighter | 1,593 | 1887 | later Agnes W 1915, wrecked Claude Point 1918 | ||
85016 | George H. Dyer | Wolf & Davidson | freighter | 1,372 | 1888 | later Hennepin 1898, barge 1926, foundered 1927 | ||
145842 | Thomas Davidson | Wolf & Davidson | freighter | 2,226 | 1888 | abandoned 1933 | ||
106683 | Arthur | tugboat | 36 | 1889 | abandoned 1921 | |||
126575 | Carl | tugboat | 33 | 1889 | abandoned 1922 | |||
120794 | Fred Pabst | Wolf & Davidson | freighter | 2,430 | 1890 | collision in the St Clair River 1907 | ||
120851 | Ferdinand Schlesinger | T. Davidson | freighter | 2,607 | 1891 | foundered off Passage I 1919 | ||
86194 | Golden | tugboat | 44 | 1892 | abandoned 1922 |