Ferguson Steel & Iron ~ Shipbuilding History

Ferguson Steel & Iron

Buffalo NY

Ferguson Steel & Iron Company was founded by James E. Ferguson in 1913: its plant was on Bailey Avenue, at Stanley Street, a huge facility now occupied by K & E Fabrication. It grew significantly during WWI, partly by adding a shipyard on the Buffalo River. The address was 550 Abbott Road, but this is now South Park Avenue: the shipyard was the stretch on the north side of the street, east of the South Park Avenue bridge and west of the ruined railroad. Ferguson's life as a shipbuilder was short: it built six tugs for the Navy and 16 canal barges for the Inland Waterways Corporation and closed.

Name	O/N	Customer	Type		LDT	LOA	Built	Notes
Bagaduce		US Navy	tugboat	AT-21	1,000	156	18 Sep 1919	later ATO-21, to MC 1947
Tadousac		US Navy	tugboat	AT-22	1,000	156	13 Jun 1919	sold 1938, reacquired 1941 as YP-515, destroyed 1946
Kalmia		US Navy	tugboat	AT-23	1,000	156	18 Nov 1919	later ATO-23, struck 1936
Kewaydin		US Navy	tugboat	AT-24	1,000	156	4 Nov 1919	later ATO-24, struck 1946
Umpqua		US Navy	tugboat	AT-25	1,000	156	6 Dec 1919	later ATO-25
Wandank		US Navy	tugboat	AT-26	1,000	156	23 Mar 1920	later ATO-26, sold 1947
	167480	I. W. C.	barge	221	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1941
	167485	I. W. C.	barge	222	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1940
	167486	I. W. C.	barge	223	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1938
	167488	I. W. C.	barge	224	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1939
	167489	I. W. C.	barge	225	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1939
	167490	I. W. C.	barge	226	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1941
	167492	I. W. C.	barge	227	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1938
	167493	I. W. C.	barge	228	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1942
	167537	I. W. C.	barge	229	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1936
	167538	I. W. C.	barge	230	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1941
	167539	I. W. C.	barge	231	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1938
	167540	I. W. C.	barge	232	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1938
	167541	I. W. C.	barge	233	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1939
	167542	I. W. C.	barge	234	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1938
	167543	I. W. C.	barge	235	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1939
	167544	I. W. C.	barge	236	294g	150	1919	abandoned 1939