Mainstream Shipyard & Supply ~ Shipbuilding History

Mainstream Shipyard & Supply

Greenville MS

Marine Welding & Repair Works Inc., was founded in 1947 by brothers Bill and Bilbo Williamson. In 1959, they were joined by Joe Williams and the same year acquired Greenville Manufacturing & Machine Works. Later Williams bought out the Williamsons and changed the name to Mainstream Shipyards and Supply Inc. The yard closed in 1990, when Williams retired.

	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	Built	Notes
Built by Greenville Manufacturing & Machine Works
	232526	America	Great Lakes Dredge	dredge	539	1933
	251674	Marisa D		towboat	47	1947	later Mr G, reefed off DE 2009?
3758	262072	Pat II	Smith Towing	passenger	17	1951	NLD 2007
	277551	C. B. Southern	Southern Towing	towboat	292	1958	later Ms Audrey Dean
	284077	Eddie Waxler	Waxler Towing	towboat	278	1961	scrapped 2013
	291564	Randy L		towboat	60	1963	later Misty Dawn, Suzy Q, Howard P
	291565	Barbara Kay	LLM Towing	towboat	78	1963	later William Kimble, White Rock
	291620	Jayhawk	Williams Marine Ent.	towboat	55	1963
	297854	Alice Parker	Parker Towing	towboat	263	1965	later Brenda Sue, retired 2004
	299835	Raven	Williams Marine Ent.	towboat	76	1965	later Elizabeth R
6640	502672	Jim Southern	Southern Towing	towboat	380	1966	later Bobby Jones
	511120	James L. Williams	Southern Towing	towboat	380	1967	later Larry Tilley
	513063	Vickie Ann	Greenville Mfg	towboat	84	1968	later W R Warner, Donna Marie, Midwest III
6847	514269	Katy Riley	Southern Towing	towboat	171	1968	later Colorado
Built by Marine Welding & Repair Works Inc
	538929	B 6	Greenville Gravel	barge	261	1950
	261881	Kyle T	Witco	towboat	55	1951	later C L Wolfe, Spring Valley, Deborah Ann, NLD
	264241	Ann Lee	Marine Welding	towboat	62	1952	later Commercial, NLD
	270809	Ben McCool	Greenville Towing	towboat	294	1955	later Jean Pierre Cenac, Jean Pierre, NLD
5	273340	Wm. S. Lyon	Superior Towing Co	towboat	337	1957	later Denis Brown, Moonlight, Tracy E Jones, inactive (Paraguay)
	275615	Wm. H. Craig	Carroll Towing	towboat	298	1957	later Sioux, Natalie Alexander
	276621	B-4	Greenville Gravel	barge	280	1958	NLD
	277408	B-5	Greenville Gravel	barge	259	1958	NLD
	277706	CF11	Hartley Marine	tank barge	154	1958
	277707	City of Memphis	Memphis Mid-Stream	towboat	43	1958	later Eagle Oiler, Roy H
	277214	Mark D		towboat	58	1958	later Jennifer Lind, Jeff Davis, Sans Bois
	597824	barge 3	Meadows & Meadows	barge	276	1959	NLD
	279030	Dorothy I. Southern	Southern Towing	towboat	343	1959	later Dennis Collins
	283125	Ellen	Blackhawk Fleet	towboat	50	1960	NLD
	284621	Don Alberto	American Tugs Inc	towboat	145	1960
	282986	Gilda McCool	Gilder McCool	towboat	420	1960	later Julie Ann, Constance M Igert, Cindy L Erickson, Pat Dicciani, Robert Ingle
	280525	Jag	KGW Towing	towboat	296	1961	later Miss Dixie
	289919	Kathy	Marine Welding	towboat	71	1961	later Miss Rosalind, NLD
	289954	Robbie J	Jeffrey Sand	towboat	12	1962	NLD
24	290154	Betty Sue	Carter Construction	towboat	53	1962
	291564	Barbara Lee	KWK Towing	towboat	60	1963	later Randy L, Misty Dawn, Suzy Q, Howard P, NLD
	293051	May Ellen	Warfield Towing	towboat	60	1963	later Ann Hayes, The American
	290718	Rock Bluff	SCNO Barge Lines	towboat	272	1963
	293720	Bobby M	Economy Boat Store	towboat	59	1964	later Ms Paula, NLD
	501262	Laura Elizabeth	Southern Towing	towboat	380	1965
	506453	Baxter Southern	Southern Towing	towboat	380	1966
	509913	William H Craig	Carroll Towing	towboat	515	1967	later Creole Belle, Capitan Rey II (Argentina)
	512141	Charles Southern	Southern Towing	towboat	380	1968
	518074	Tri-W	Tri-W Towing	towboat	719	1969	later Robin Mott, Southern King, Tendota (Paraguay)
		Ark City	Greenville Fuel Svce.	towboat	51	1969	later Mustang
	523490	Karen	Greenville Towing	towboat	322	1969	later W. W. Crum
	524641	Mary C. Thompson	Warfield Towing	towboat	189	1970	later Union City Texas, Gregory P Frazier, Pat Pickett, NLD
		Saint Paul		towboat		1970
	531541	Gremco	Gremco Towing	towboat	553	1971	later Northern King, Dick Harbison, Lady M
53	543008	Melinda B	Greenville Transportation	towboat	514	1972	later Kansas City
Built by Mainstream Shipyards and Supply Inc
56	553844	Frank H. Peavey	Greenville Towing	towboat	582	1974	later Shelly Mott, Sno Sheen, Greenville, Thelma Parker II
57	558551	Beverly Ann	Alter Barge Line	towboat	681	1974	later Lillie Gail, Joshua David Esper
58	562377	Edwin L. Kennedy	Ingram barge	towboat	413	1975
59	565395	Martha Denton	Ingram barge	towboat	424	1975
60	568268	Sandy Southern	Southern Towing	towboat	390	1975	later Cheryl Stegbauer
61	574683	Clarence G. Frame	Ingram barge	towboat	539	1976
62	578276	Alvin C. Johnson	Ingram barge	towboat	539	1976
63	579809	Jo Anne Stegbauer	Southern Towing	towboat	358	1977
64	599138	Carrie Elizabeth	Jefferson Barracks Mar.	towboat	164	1978
	607017	Lorna Hackworth	HAM Tug & Fleeting	towboat	61	1979	later Buster White
67	624694	Tim Parker	Parker Towing	towboat	234	1980
70	651976	GS-982	Ergon Marine	tank barge	309	1982
71	647139	Wendy Ann	Jefferson Barracks Mar.	towboat	136	1982