L-Type Great Lakes Dry Bulk Cargo Ships
The L-Type ships were 605-foot Great Lakes ore carriers: 16 in all.
| MARCOM # | Builder | Location | Name | Design | DWT | Delivered | Notes | |
| 565 | American SB | Lorain OH | 826 | Thomas Wilson | freighter (L6) | 15,825 | May 1943 | sank 1987 |
| 566 | American SB | Lorain OH | 827 | Sewell Avery | freighter (L6) | 15,825 | May 1943 | later Lancashire, sunk as dock in Soo |
| 567 | American SB | Lorain OH | 828 | J. Burton Ayers | freighter (L6) | 15,825 | Aug 1943 | later Cuyahoga, scrapped |
| 568 | American SB | Lorain OH | 829 | E. G. Grace | freighter (L6) | 15,825 | Sep 1943 | later Lincolnshire, scrapped 1986 |
| 569 | American SB | Cleveland OH | 1009 | Belle Isle/Champlain | freighter (L6) | 15,825 | June 1943 | |
| 570 | American SB | Cleveland OH | 1010 | John T. Hutchinson | freighter (L6) | 15,825 | July 1943 | |
| 579 | Great Lakes EW | Ecorse MI | 290 | Adirondack/Richard J. Reiss | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | May 1943 | later Manistee 2005 |
| 580 | Great Lakes EW | Ecorse MI | 291 | Lake Angelina/Cadillac | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | June 1943 | scrapped 1987 |
| 581 | Great Lakes EW | Ecorse MI | 292 | Hill Annex/George A. Sloan | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | July 1943 | later Mississagi 2001 |
| 582 | Great Lakes EW | Ashtabula OH | 522 | Pilot Knob/Frank Armstrong | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | May 1943 | later Samuel Mather 1976, scrapped 1988 |
| 583 | Great Lakes EW | Ashtabula OH | 523 | Clarence B. Randall | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | July 1943 | later Ashland 1962, scrapped 1988 |
| 584 | Great Lakes EW | Ecorse MI | 293 | McIntyre/Frank Purnell | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | Aug 1943 | later Steelton 1966, Pioneer 1978, hulked for cement storage in Chicago as C.T.C. 1 1983 |
| 585 | Great Lakes EW | Ecorse MI | 294 | Robert C. Stanley | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | Sep 1943 | scrapped 1989 |
| 586 | Great Lakes EW | Ecorse MI | 295 | Mesabi/Lehigh | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | Nov 1943 | later Joseph X. Robert 1981, Willowglen 1982, scrapped 2005 |
| 587 | Great Lakes EW | Ashtabula OH | 524 | J. H. Hillman, Jr. | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | Sep 1943 | later Crispin Oglebay 1974, Hamilton 1995, Hamilton Transfer 1996, scrapped 1998 |
| 588 | Great Lakes EW | Ashtabula OH | 525 | Pilot Knob/Steelton | freighter (L6) | 15,865 | Nov 1943 | later Frank Purnell 1965, Robert C. Norton 1976, scrapped 1994 |