Zenith Dredge

Duluth MN

Zenith Dredge Company was formed in 1905 as a harbor construction company: it only built ships during WWII. It was located at the foot of 13th Avenue West, where Georgia Pacific is now, and had two ways, launching northeasterly into Slip #7, which was filled in the 1950s.

O/N Name Customer Type Tons Delivered Notes
1 598508 Balsam (WAGL-62) USCG tender 935 14 Oct 1942 sold 1977 as f/v Baranof
3 647243 Woodbine (WAGL-289) USCG tender 935 17 Nov 1942 scrapped 2007
2 Gentian (WAGL-290) USCG tender 935 3 Nov 1942 to Colombia 2007 as San Andres
4 1121576 Laurel (WAGL-291) USCG tender 935 24 Nov 1942 sold 2010 as r/v Coral Vision (Trinidad)
5 1097357 Sorrel (WAGL-296) USCG tender 935 15 Apr 1943 sold 1996 as Fearless
6 Madrona (WAGL-302) USCG tender 935 30 May 1943 to El Salvador 2002 as Manuel Jose Arce (BL-01)
7 606117 Tupelo (WAGL-303) USCG tender 935 30 Aug 1943 sold 1977 as f/v Courageous
8 YW-85 US Navy water tanker 440 1944 scrapped 1975
9 YW-86 US Navy water tanker 440 1944 sunk as target 2001
10 YW-87 US Navy water tanker 440 1944
11 YW-88 US Navy water tanker 440 1944
12 YW-89 US Navy water tanker 440 1944 sunk as target 1976
14 YW-90 US Navy water tanker 440 1944 scrapped 1975
15 No. 15 Zenith Dredge barge 200g 1942 NLD 1972
16 Salvia (WAGL-400) USCG tender 935 19 Feb 1944 decommissioned 1991, sunk as target
17 Sagebrush (WAGL-399) USCG tender 935 1 Apr 1944 decommissioned 1998, reefed 1998
18 Bittersweet (WAGL-389) USCG tender 935 11 May 1944 to Estonia 1997 as Valvas (PVL 109)
19 1143702 Bramble (WAGL-392) USCG tender 935 22 Apr 1944 decommissioned 2003:later a museum in Port Huron MI
20 Mallow (WAGL-396) USCG tender 935 6 Jun 1944 decommissioned 1997, in storage in Curtis Bay
21 Mariposa (WAGL-397) USCG tender 935 1 Jul 1944 to USN 2000 as training hulk, scrapped 2008
22 Firebush (WAGL-393) USCG tender 935 20 Jul 1944 to Nigeria 2003 as Nwanba (A-503)
23 Iris (WAGL-395) USCG tender 935 11 Aug 1944 scrapped 2019
24 1190686 Acacia (WAGL-406) USCG tender 935 1 Sep 1944 decommissioned 2006, a museum in Manistee MI
25 Woodrush (WAGL-407) USCG tender 935 22 Sep 1944 to Ghana 2001
26 YW-107 US Navy water tanker 440 1945 scrapped 1974
27 930503 YW-108 US Navy water tanker 440 1945 sold 2006 as f/v YW-108 (Mexico)
28 Tunxis (YN-119) US Navy net layer 775 28 Mar 1945 AN-90, to Venezuela 1955 as Puerto Nutrias (H-02), discarded
29 Waxsaw (YN-120) US Navy net layer 775 6 May 1945 AN-91, to Venezuela 1963 as Puerto Miranda (H-80), discarded
30 Yazoo (YN-121) US Navy net layer 775 31 May 1945 AN-92, scrapped 1975
32 No. 16 Zenith Dredge barge 383g 1947
33 G.L. 166 GLD&D barge 200g 1948

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