Jenks Shipbuilding
Port Huron MI
Most recent update: May 14, 2016.
Jenks Shipbuilding Company was started in 1889. In 1903, it was reorganized and became Port Huron Shipbuilding but only built two more ships before closing. The yard was at Erie and Quay Streets, on the north bank of Black River.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
| Built by Jenks Shipbuilding | ||||||||
| 1 | 155198 | O. O. Carpenter | H. E. Runnels | freighter | 364 | 1892 | later Massasoit 1905, scrapped 1931 | |
| 2 | 157350 | Desmond | A. M. Carpenter | freighter | 456 | 1892 | foundered 1917 | |
| 3 | 96230 | H. E. Runnels | Runnels SS Co | freighter | 862 | 1893 | wrecked 1919 | |
| 4 | 141264 | Lloyd S. Porter | R. M. Jenks | freighter | 489 | 1893 | burned 1917 | |
| 5 | 126998 | C. D. Thompson | tugboat | 92 | 1893 | abandoned 1940 | ||
| 6 | 127037 | C. L. Boynton | Thompson Towing | tugboat | 103 | 1894 | Ufasco 1919, scrapped 1940 | |
| 7 | 121004 | F. J. Haynes | tugboat | 27 | 1895 | |||
| 8 | 3651 | B. B. Inman | tugboat | 89 | 1895 | scrapped 1916 | ||
| 9 | 161767 | Vigilant | tugboat | 372 | 1896 | burned 1936 | ||
| 10 | 141370 | Linden | Sandusky Box Co | freighter | 894 | 1895 | burned 1923 | |
| 11 | 3721 | Black Rock | A. M. Carpenter | freighter | 1,646 | 1896 | deleted 1925 | |
| 12 | 81617 | W. G. Mason | tugboat | 99 | 1898 | abandoned 1926 | ||
| 13 | 111284 | Ravenscraig | Volunteer Transit | freighter | 2,280 | Apr 1900 | Edward F. Cragin 1918, Eugenio Cantoni 1919, scrapped 1923 | |
| 14 | 127469 | Capt. Thomas Wilson | Wilson Transit Co | bulk carrier | 4,719 | Sep 1900 | Kickapoo 1943, scrapped 1947 | |
| 15 | 161178 | Kennebec | F. B. Chesbrough | freighter | 2,183 | May 1901 | foundered 1921 | |
| 16 | 127547 | Charles S. Neff | Mack S.S. Co | freighter | 1,069 | June 1901 | Serpentine 1919, Gabino 1921, Weston M. Carroll 1925, San Pedro 1950, foundered 1955 | |
| 17 | 96584 | Henry Steinbrenner | Kinsman Transit Co | bulk carrier | 4,719 | Oct 1901 | foundered 1953 | |
| 18 | 161199 | Kanawha | F. B. Chesbrough | freighter | 2,182 | Apr 1902 | foundered 1916 | |
| 19 | 77559 | John B. Cowle | Cowle Tptn Co | bulk carrier | 4,731 | Nov 1902 | scrapped 1979 | |
| 20 | 59589 | T. F. Newman | Great Lakes Towing | barge | 855 | 1902 | ||
| 21 | 77566 | James R. Elliott | City of Detroit | fireboat | 210 | 1902 | Normac 1930, restaurant in Toronto 1969, in Port Dalhousie | |
| 22 | Hyacinth | U.S. Light House Service | buoy tender | 738 | June 1903 | sold 1946 | ||
| 23 | Chesbrough Bros | yacht | 50 | 1902 | ||||
| 24 | U.S. Lake Survey | pontoons | 1902 | |||||
| 25 | 200031 | Eastland | Michigan S.S. Co | passenger | 1,961 | July 1903 | Wilmette 1917, scrapped 1947 | |
| 26 | 200560 | F. B. Squire | Mack S.S. Co | bulk carrier | 4,582 | Dec 1903 | Harry Wm. Hosford 1936, scrapped 1961 | |
| Built by Port Huron Shipbuilding | ||||||||
| Alfred E. Hunt | Port Huron Const. | dredge | 510 | Sep 1907 | ||||
| 163431 | Cuilene Rhu | Dunbar & Sullivan | barge | 160 | Feb 1908 | |||