Lancaster Iron Works ~ Shipbuilding History

Lancaster Iron Works

Perryville MD

Lancaster Iron Works opened a small shipyard in Perryville for the war effort and closed it in 1950. It was located in Frenchtown, about a mile above Perryville, just below the railroad bridge.

	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	Tons	LOA	Delivered	Notes
120	620493	803		tank barge	460	144	1941
121	620494	804		tank barge	460	144	1941
122	620495	805		tank barge	460	144	1941
123	620496	806		tank barge	460	144	1941
	260407	BD-2000	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941	sold as Joe
		BD-2001	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941
	251566	BD-2002	US Army	derrick barge		135	1941	sold as Catskill
	296155	BD-2003	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941	sold as Josephine
		BD-2004	US Army	derrick barge		135	1941
	255755	BD-2005	US Army	derrick barge		135	1941	sold as Suffolk
		BD-2006	US Army	derrick barge		135	1941
		BD-2007	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941
		BD-2008	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941
		BD-2009	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941
		BD-2010	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941
	256004	BD-2011	US Army	derrick barge		155	1941	sold as Conqueror
	252051	one of the above		derrick barge		155	1943	now Big Eagle
		YFN-296	US Navy	lighter	170	110	1942
		YFN-297	US Navy	lighter	170	110	1942
	175664	No. 5	Merritt Dredging	tank barge	65	70	1942
201	251442	Spindletop	MARCOM	tanker (T1)	846d	221	July 1943	to Britain 1943, sold 1946 as Lake Charles, Atlas Traveler 1962, Loc Bay 1976, Badger State 1980, scrapped 1988
202		Cotton Valley	MARCOM	tanker (T1)	846d	221	Sep 1943	to Britain 1943, sold 1947 as Paraggi, N. S. di Montallegro 1964, Eleanor X 1995
203		Rouseville	MARCOM	tanker (T1)	846d	221	Nov 1943	to Britain 1943, mined and lost off the River Seine 1944
204		Golden Meadow	MARCOM	tanker (T1)	846d	221	Dec 1943	to Britain 1943, sold 1947 as Yung Tung, scrapped 1962
208		YO	US Navy	tanker	650		1944
	246288	Fray	Merritt Dredging	dredge	14	34	1944
		Y-47	US Army	tanker	182d	294	July 1944	to Panama 1946 as Y-47
		Y-48	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Aug 1944
		Y-49	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Sep 1944	to Norway 1946 as Kloverstrand
		Y-50	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Oct 1944	to China 1946 as Ming Sung No. 1
		Y-51	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Nov 1944	to Russia 1946 on loan
		Y-55	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Dec 1944	to Russia 1946 on loan
		Y-57	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Jan 1945	to Russia 1946 on loan
		Y-58	US Army	tanker	182d	294	Feb 1945	retired in the 1960s
	176390	Blue Line 105		tank barge	1,148	215	1945	later Ala 1, B. No. 50
	176488	Blue Line 106		tank barge	1,148	215	1945
224	654947	New West		fish factory	1,134	175	1945	now Cape Greig
233	250603	Delaware Belle		passenger	949	222	Sep 1946	later Hudson Belle 1955, George Washington 1963, Kulamanu