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Great Lakes Shipyard

Cleveland OH

Most recent update: January 19, 2021.

Great Lakes Shipyard is a division of the Great Lakes Group, the largest towing company on the Great Lakes. It was originally established in 1899, on the Cuyahoga River, at the foot of the Jefferson Bridge. When that yard burned in 1952, it took over a part of the former AmShip Cleveland yard, on the Old River, where it continues in business today, primarily as a maintenance facility, but in 2007 it started to build new vessels again, for the first time since 1931. Visit it at thegreatlakesgroup.com and see it from the air on Google here.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Delivered Notes
Modern-Era Record
1217648 Hercules 1 Atlantis LLC passenger barge 29 2008
1217649 Hercules 2 Atlantis LLC passenger barge 29 2008
1217651 Hercules 3 Atlantis LLC passenger barge 29 2008
1217652 Hercules 4 Atlantis LLC passenger barge 29 2008
101 1206671 Handy-One Tugz International tugboat 90 70 Apr 2008 later Don Raul
102 Handy-Two Tugz International tugboat 90 70 Sep 2008 later Harry Brautigan (St. Vincent)
103 1239468 Handy-Three Tugz International tugboat 90 70 Apr 2012
104 1272237 Handy-Four Tugz International tugboat 90 70 Sep 2016 later San Jose
104 1229683 Havasu II NY Power Auth. tank barge 114 80 Sep 2010
USACE Inspection barge Nov 2010
USACE Inspection barge Nov 2010
National Parks Svce Restroom barge Apr 2011
National Parks Svce Restroom barge Apr 2011
104 1249427 Kaho National Geo. Survey research 67 71 Aug 2011
105 1245695 Muskie National Geo. Survey research 67 70 Aug 2011
106 1250352 Joey D Port of Milwaukee work boat 65 60 Jan 2012
9201 1244561 Aura Caribbean tugboats tugboat 173 87 June 2013
9202 1244562 Atlas Caribbean tugboats tugboat 173 87 June 2013
4515 1265829 Joncaire II NY Power Auth. tugboat 47 45 Dec 2015
4516 1302184 Breaker II NY Power Auth. tugboat 46 56 21 Feb 2020 built by Blount Boats
6501 1276710 Cleveland Great Lakes Towing tugboat 113 58 27 Mar 2017
6502 1291445 Ohio Great Lakes Towing tugboat 113 58 11 Dec 2018
6503 1293906 Michigan Great Lakes Towing tugboat 113 58 22 Aug 2019
6504 1300644 Pennsylvania Great Lakes Towing tugboat 113 58 9 Dec 2019
6505 1307568 Wisconsin Great Lakes Towing tugboat 113 58 16 Nov 2020
Pre-War Record
Built in Chicago
1 203853 James R. Sinclair Union Towing tugboat 71 1907 later John Roen Jr. 1938, Apollo 1971
2 tugboat
3 tugboat
4 tugboat
? 204588 Abner C. Harding Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1907 later Arkansas 1934, H. J. Dixon 1949, scrapped 1965
5 205129 L. C. Sabin Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1908 later North Carolina 1941, sank 1968
Built in Cleveland
6 206655 William A. Field Great Lakes Towing tugboat 114 1909 later New Hampshire 1930, scrapped 1968
7 206840 E. M. Pierce Great Lakes Towing tugboat 112 1909 later Utah 1933, scrapped 1998
8 206972 Yale Great Lakes Towing tugboat 112 1909 later Arkansas 1949
9 207693 R. P. Reidenbach Great Lakes Towing tugboat 71 1910 later Conneaut 1941, scrapped 1965
10 207694 Dunkirk Great Lakes Towing tugboat 71 1910 scrapped 1965
11 207930 John M. Truby Great Lakes Towing tugboat 113 1910 later North Dakota 1938
12 208117 W. L. Mercereau Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1910 later New Mexico 1937, Punta Lima 1997
13 208153 Ohio Great Lakes Towing tugboat 112 1910 scrapped 1954
14 208339 Minnesota Great Lakes Towing tugboat 111 1911
15 208915 Indiana Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1911
16 209376 Pennsylvania Great Lakes Towing tugboat 104 1911
17 210369 Waukegan Great Lakes Towing tugboat 71 1912 later Bansun 1946, scrapped 1967
18 210162 Kenosha Great Lakes Towing tugboat 72 1912
19 210571 Buffalo Great Lakes Towing tugboat 71 1912 later Churchill 1928, Buffalo 1948, Todd Fraser 1974, Reuben Johnson 1978
20 210472 Sandusky Great Lakes Towing tugboat 72 1912 later Banstar 1945, scrapped 1968
21 210878 Gary Great Lakes Towing tugboat 71 1912 later Green Bay 1934, Oneida 1981, Iroquois 1987, Alaska 1990, Grouper 1998
22 210681 North Harbor Great Lakes Towing tugboat 73 1912 later Patricia 1966, abandoned 1975
23 211165 New York Great Lakes Towing tugboat 111 1913
24 211152 Q. A. Gillmore Great Lakes Towing tugboat 111 1913 later Reiss 1933, Q. A. Gillmore, museum in Duluth MN
25 211746 T. C. Lutz Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1913 later Oklahoma 1974
26 211745 Michigan Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1913 later Ste. Marie II 1978, Dakota 1981, Ethel E 1982, Jacquelyn Nicole
pontoon Great Lakes Towing barge 476 1913 scrapped 1959
27 212367 Wisconsin Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1914 scrapped 1968
28 212455 Vermont Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1914
29 212542 Illinois Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1914
30 212640 Virginia Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1914
31 212670 Racine Great Lakes Towing tugboat 65 1914 later Douglas Reid 1964
32 212730 Fairport Great Lakes Towing tugboat 65 1914 later Bayport 1943, Tug A 1962, Twin Port 1963, Rod McLean 1976
33 212966 Ashtabula Great Lakes Towing tugboat 65 1915 later Tiffin, Jenny T. II 1969, yacht Ashtabula
34 212968 Lorain Great Lakes Towing tugboat 74 1915 later Cabot 1949, Steven M. Selvick 1974, scuttled 1996
35 213566 Iowa Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1915
36 213598 Missouri Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1915 later Polk 1983, Michigan 1983, Punta Tuna 1997, Superior, Cape Flattery
37 213668 Huron Great Lakes Towing tugboat 64 1915 later Dr. W. G. McGuire, scrapped 1953
38 213726 Toledo Great Lakes Towing tugboat 71 1915 later Jerri Watson 1976
39 214376 Alabama Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1916 in service 2000
40 214412 Georgia Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1916 scrapped 1966
41 214624 Texas Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1916
42 214556 Mississippi Great Lakes Towing tugboat 98 1916
43 214797 Tennessee Great Lakes Towing tugboat 97 1917
44 214846 Louisiana Great Lakes Towing tugboat 97 1917
45 215738 Detroit Great Lakes Towing tugboat 65 1917 later Gen. E. M. Markham 1939, Winslow 1993, scrapped 1994
46 216022 Alpena Great Lakes Towing tugboat 65 1917 later Duke Luedtke 1974, sank 1993
47 217520 Favorite Great Lakes Towing tugboat 746 1919 later museum 1974, scrapped 1983
48 221055 Oregon Great Lakes Towing tugboat 95 1921 later Ste. Marie I 1978, Sioux 1981, Susan E. 1992, Sioux
49 221204 Maine Great Lakes Towing tugboat 95 1921
T. F. Newman Great Lakes Towing steam barge 1,205 1923 abandoned
Relief Great Lakes Towing barge 513 1924
50 223616 Delaware Great Lakes Towing tugboat 95 1924
51 223623 New Jersey Great Lakes Towing tugboat 95 1924 later Petco No. 21 1952, New Jersey 1953
52 224791 Washington Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1925
53 225029 Maryland Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1925 later Tarawa 1982, Pasco 1983, Maryland 1983, sank 1998
54 225914 California Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1926
55 225822 Florida Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1926 later Pinellas 1983, Florida 1983
56 226554 Connecticut Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1927 scrapped 1998
57 226596 Kansas Great Lakes Towing tugboat 99 1927
58 227318 Massachusetts Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1928
59 227317 Colorado Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1928
60 228335 Montana Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1929
61 228273 Nebraska Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1929
62 229004 Wyoming Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1929
63 229122 Kentucky Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1929
64 229795 Nevada Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1930 scrapped 1998
65 230088 Rhode Island Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1930
66 230656 Arizona Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1931
67 231180 Idaho Great Lakes Towing tugboat 94 1931

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