Saginaw Shipbuilding ~ Shipbuilding History

Saginaw Shipbuilding

Saginaw MI

Saginaw Shipbuilding Company was organized in 1917 by Frank W. Wheeler, who had sold his shipyard in West Bay City to American Ship Building in 1900 and was now a U.S. Congressman. He started the hull numbers in this yard where the hull numbers in his old yard left off. The yard was on Carrollton Road, at the foot of Hickory Street, just east of where the 6th Street bridge used to be.

	USSB #	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	Delivered	Notes
130	409	216758	Lake Pachuta	USSB	freighter	2,600	Aug 1918	scrapped 1927
131	410	216914	Lake Osweya	USSB	freighter	2,600	Sep 1918	torpedoed and lost 1942
132	411	217045	Lake Winooski	USSB	freighter	2,600	Nov 1918	scrapped 1927
133	412	217230	Lake Belmont	USSB	freighter	2,600	Nov 1918	scrapped 1927
134	413	217322	Lake Lilicusun	USSB	freighter	2,600	Apr 1919	scrapped 1926
135	414	217474	Lake Licoco	USSB	freighter	2,600	Mar 1919	scrapped 1926
136	1158	217904	Lake Saba	USSB	freighter	2,600	May 1919	scrapped 1927
137	1159	218007	Lake Canaveral	USSB	freighter	2,600	May 1919	scrapped 1926
138	1160	218168	Lake Candelaria	USSB	freighter	2,600	July 1919	scrapped 1926
139	1161	218395	Lake Cannonsburg	USSB	freighter	2,600	Sep 1919	scrapped 1926
140	1162	218766	Lake Fear	USSB	freighter	2,600	Oct 1919	scrapped 1927
141	1163	218952	Lake Girardeau	USSB	freighter	2,600	Oct 1919	scrapped 1926
142	1760	219816	Lake Ganado	USSB	freighter	2,600	May 1920	scrapped 1930
143	1761	220129	Lake Furnas	USSB	freighter	2,600	July 1920	later Providence 1929, Norindies 1941, Hai Yueh 1946, scrapped 1954
144	1762	220496	Lake Gannett/Elmac	USSB	freighter	2,600	Aug 1920	later Surinam 1922, scrapped 1929
145	1763	220676	Lake Gano	USSB	freighter	2,600	Oct 1920	scrapped 1930
146	1764	220826	Lake Gatun	USSB	freighter	2,600	Nov 1920	later York 1929, Norvana 1941, torpedoed and lost 1942
147	1765	221008	Lake Miraflores	USSB	freighter	2,600	Apr 1921	later George F. Downey 1942, scrapped 1947