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M. M. Davis & Son

Solomons MD

Most recent update: November 1, 2015.

Marcellus Mitchell Davis started this shipyard in about 1883 and ran it until 1924, when he turned it over to his son, Clarence E. Davis, who ran it until his death in 1936, when it was bought by George Townsend, of Greenwich, Connecticut in 1954, Townsend sold the yard to its employees and in 1957, they changed the name to Cruis Along Boats in 1962 it was acquired by Century Boats and became the Century Cruiser Division. Century closed it in 1965 and the yard was leased to Ventnor Boats until 1970. It was briefly revived again in 1971 but closed for good in 1975. The shipyard was located at the foot of Rousby Hall Road, near Ship Point, and is now occupied by Chesapeake Plastics Manufacturing. See it from the air on Google here.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Delivered Notes
81015 Willie H. White Norman L. Jeffries bugeye 34 66 1883 later Agnes C. Leonard, North State, to USCG as CGR 2007, scrapped 1994
120639 Freddie Hayward Thomas Moore bugeye 25 60 1883
126328 Carrie P. Gambrill Thomas Moore et al. sloop 9 43 1884
130301 Nettie May Eugene Hall freighter 23 64 1884
126410 Col. R. Johnson Colton John H. Long aux. bugeye 29 55 1886 burned 1973
136042 Elenora Russell J. Steward Russell bugeye 60 60 1889 abandoned 1935
76892 J. C. Armiger Harry M. Cook trawler 22 61 1890
120803 Florence Northam James W. Northam bugeye 26 65 1890 scrapped 1959
106831 Annie C. Johnson Webster & Co. schooner 32 59 1891
116454 Sanxton Hubbard Clarence B. Kugler trawler 11 58 1891
81365 William H. Berry Carl W. Reed bugeye 30 56 1892 later John Reed
136497 Edith Marcy William L. Marcy bugeye 67 69 1895 foundered 1969
141452 Lottie M. Leach George S. Tull freighter 29 65 1895
141457 Louise Travers Mallory S. Sant freighter 36 69 1897
77213 James O. Carter A J Taylor & Bro tugboat 26 59 1897
92824 M. Mitchell Davis Y. & O. Coal Co. tugboat 85 81 1897
111185 Retsilla Thomas H. Barrington motor yacht 25 56 1898 later Afjen
77498 Lady Rae Rae Phillips trawler 29 66 1901
Clytie bugeye 40 81 1901 later Albemarle
Alpha J-Frank Thompson tugboat 1901
107661 Robert H Tug Robert H Inc. tugboat 40 58 1901
81757 William H. Yerkes, Jr. A J Taylor & Bro tugboat 59 73 1901
93262 M. Mitchell Davis Charles H. Harper tugboat 116 92 1902
Humphrey Toomey schooner 167 1902
201163 Cecil W. Smithers tugboat 59 76 1904
Marion Cameron Angus Cameron tugboat 1904
Agnes Miller J-Miller tugboat 1904
201810 Ethel Vail Clifford T. Kelch schooner 18 40 1905
202052 Edward G. Gummel Gummel Construction tugboat 59 70 1906 later Fortuna
Louisa Robert Murphy lighter 182 1906
205735 Capt. Toby A J Taylor & Bro tugboat 20 47 1906 abandoned 1947
218687 Gertrude motor yacht 15 46 1907
205640 Mary P. Riehl Atlantic Transpt Co tugboat 47 59 1908
205432 Esther Phillips Atlantic Transpt Co tugboat 46 60 1908
212392 Mayflower Joseph Correls barge 14 45 1908
206270 William Blundon Hinton Toulson trawler 240 127 1909 sank 1973
206062 John Miller Harbor Towing tugboat 24 55 1909
Aloha H W Steele yacht 1910
208045 Dispatch Chesapeake Light'ge tugboat 46 58 1910
208402 Advance tugboat 157 107 1911 to USN 1918 as ID-3057, YT-28, sold 1934
208438 M. M. Davis trawler 298 136 1911 sank off Janes Island
208462 St. Vincent Tug St. Martin Inc. tugboat 167 107 1911
208729 Mildred Herbert Bryant Inc. freighter 90 82 1911
209260 Catherine Webster & Bro. bugeye 51 65 1911 abandoned 1956
209911 Wilbert A. Edwards W. A. Edwards Co. trawler 343 143 1912 to USN 1917 as Edwards (SP-315), returned 1919
210003 Winford S. Cahill Eubank, Pankard Co. trawler 299 137 1912 to USN 1917 as Cahill (SP-493), sold 1919, Eraclea
210455 Clew John E. La Vock motor yacht 22 60 1912
210557 Philip K. Bauman Douglas Co. trawler 304 137 1912 to USN 1917 as Bauman (SP-377), sank 1918
211348 Kenneth L. McNeal McNeal-Dodson Co. trawler 331 143 1913 to USN 1917 as McNeal (SP-333), sold 1919
212519 T. G. Herbert Smoot S & G tugboat 35 56 1914
212941 Takana tugboat 172 69 1915 to USN 1918 as ID-3039, returned 1919
212941 T. J. Sheridan August Fraenslick tugboat 74 70 1915
213158 C. W. Hand Smith Hand oyster sloop 35 61 1915
213888 Raymond H. B. Messenger tugboat 61 60 1916
214081 J. H. Steele Paul Freeman tanker 106 85 1916
229739 Robert Henjes J. D. Orrell tugboat 76 75 1916
168429 Algora Nicholas Petterson freight barge 254 114 1917
215839 Sarah Weems Balto & Carolina SS freighter 1,521 206 1917
216839 Progress Bethlehem Steel Co tugboat 345 125 1918
1207 217615 Artisan USSB tugboat 358 126 1919
1208 217939 Craftsman USSB tugboat 358 126 1919 abandoned 1944
1211 218770 Guardsman USSB tugboat 358 126 1919 later Julia Howard
1212 218783 Custodian USSB tugboat 358 126 1919
1213 217937 Woodman USSB tugboat 358 126 1919
217615 Stirling Tomkins Cornell SS Co. tugboat 357 126 1919
171421 W. A. Smoot, Jr. Smoot S. & G. tugboat 196 90 1921
222490 Josephine Transfuel Inc. tanker 84 70 1922
223180 Thomas C. McNeal McNeal Edwards Co. trawler 219 127 1923 to USN 1942 as YP-404, YDG-1, sold 1945
223398 William T. Covington McNeal Dodson Co trawler 250 130 1923 to USCG 1943
223511 Studwell W. H. Gahagan tugboat 15 39 1923
223535 William J Forrest L. Stewart trawler 15 39 1923
223842 Ballantrae Ballantrae, Inc. trawler 34 59 1924
224698 Colleen Connors Std. Marine tugboat 73 76 1925
224711 Donald M. McNeale Smoot Sand & Gravel tugboat 37 56 1925 scrapped 1965
225103 James Aubry James B. Bradshaw passenger 11 44 1925
Gadfly aux. ketch 34 1926 later Miss Patsy
Seawitch L. E. Holt aux. yawl 27 1927
226638 Bonhomie Robert C. Roebling power yacht 84 80 1927 to US Army 1941 as Q 103, scrapped 1968
171423 W. A. Smoot No. 5 Smoot S. & G. tugboat 262 96 1928
254097 Betty Jo Shaw & Hall trawler 30 56 1928
228792 Bounty George D. Olds trawler 27 50 1929
229223 Corthell W. H. Gahagan tugboat 22 42 1929 later Chester A. Crosby, C. A. Crosby, Tenacious
229570 Orithia Haliburton Fales aux. ketch 28 51 1930 to USN 1942 as YP-336, Chesapeake, Pandora III
230250 Lord Jim Martin L. Martus aux. schooner 30 55 1930 later Yankee, Jaguar
230263 Luna Boston Towboat Co tugboat 165 90 1930
230793 Madeira August C. Boll motor yacht 19 43 1930 later Aland
230608 High Tide Eugene E duPont aux. schooner 34 61 1931 to USCG Acad. 1946, Golden Eagle, Mariah, lost 1981
230794 James S. Whiteley Baker Whiteley Coal tugboat 193 94 1931
231000 Columbia Smoot Sand & Gravel tugboat 48 59 1931
231113 Condorth II Clarence E. Davis power boat 19 43 1931
Dog Star William E. Baker aux. ketch 31 1931
231501 State Port North Carolina Line freighter 328 143 1932
232634 Ken-Line Clifton H. Ralph miscellaneous 10 40 1933
233021 Manana George A. Humphries yacht 75 80 1934
233366 Shirley Ann Theodore Friedmann yacht 17 43 1933
Aweigh Lawrence M. Bailliere cutter 47 1934
233412 Kiboko Harry Weinberg yacht 44 55 1934 later Magnum II
234485 Lady Patty J. W. Crawford, Jr. aux. ketch 10 36 1935
Trivet F. G. Swink aux. sloop 22 1935
Cheerio Too yacht 48 1935
234185 Zog James Curtis miscellaneous 8 40 1935
234745 Diana Langhorne Gibson aux. ketch 52 60 1936 later Estelle Dunbar, Shearwater, Pinguino, Lady Gordon, Varuna
235095 Irene Charles Jones miscellaneous 10 43 1936
Puffin M. S. Galloway aux. ketch 33 1936
235629 Ko-Asa E. E. Bishop aux. bugeye 68 73 1936
287504 Tejeria Theodore G. Hoster aux. cutter 14 42 1936 later Taneek
279645 Edmar aux. cutter 28 1937 later Adventure
235904 Virginia Smoot Sand & Gravel tugboat 53 60 1937
236188 White Cloud Charles E. Sorensen aux. cutter 21 53 1937
236284 Mary S Walter V. Evans trawler 11 41 1937
236412 Imalone Frank M. Stephen Jr. miscellaneous 11 40 1937
236528 Manitou Kenneth Kroehler yawl 24 53 1937
237090 Gray Ghost David N. Crofoot Crusailer 17 41 1938 later Lydia
237178 Whitecap J. B. White aux. sloop 32 43 1938 later Southwynd IV, Shark's Tooth
237359 Awab Crusailer 17 41 1938 later Irish Mist
237690 Cygnet Walter J. Goetsch aux. ketch 17 41 1938 later Ariadne, Dominion, Polaris, Antares, Phoenix
237700 Rosa-Lee Henry F. Strobach trawler 7 38 1938
237708 Tui-Hana Kenneth Kelley aux. ketch 17 41 1938 later Tiki, Limbas III, Milky Way, Dyna, Witch of the Wave, Island Woman
237723 Moon Maid H. Boone Porter Crusailer 17 41 1938 later Grey Mist, Snow Shoe
238712 Crusailer George B. Morell, Jr. aux. ketch 17 36 1939 later Down Wind
238824 Miss Uniontown John Johnston trawler 13 38 1939
239040 Rosa-Lee II E. Bauernschmidt trawler 13 38 1939
Valmer yacht 27 1940
Pinard aux. sloop 22 1939 later Pretty Little, Ciribiribin
239382 Cheerio Tree George H. Townsend aux. ketch 29 47 1940 later Whitecap, Jolly Belle, Astrea II
240489 Patrol IV Con. Edison patrol boat 9 33 1941
Co-Ed power boat 41 1941 later Dolphin II
287330 Mike G. M. Jones, Jr. aux. ketch 17 41 1941 later Kim, Vision II, Watcha, Compass Rose, Axia
T-19 US Army utility boat 40 65 Aug 1942
T-20 US Army utility boat 40 65 Aug 1942 to USAF
285571 T-21 US Army utility boat 40 65 Sep 1942 later Highlander, Sgt. Jones
T-22 US Army utility boat 40 65 Sep 1942 later Howard
273300 T-39 US Army utility boat 40 65 Nov 1942 later J. Howard, Hemco I, scrapped 1975
T-40 US Army utility boat 40 65 Nov 1942
272556 T-41 US Army utility boat 40 65 Dec 1942 later Diane-Louise, Jean Selma, scrapped 1976
T-42 US Army utility boat 40 65 Dec 1942 to USACE
279960 T-56 US Army utility boat 40 65 Mar 1943 to USAF, Hammet
254881 T-57 US Army utility boat 40 65 Mar 1943 later Laura B
T-84 US Army utility boat 40 65 Apr 1943
271792 T-85 US Army utility boat 40 65 Apr 1943 later Vega
T-86 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1943 to DoJ
T-87 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1943 to USACE
251498 FS-42 US Army freighter 270 114 June 1943 later Rowe
FS-43 US Army freighter 270 114 June 1943
FS-44 US Army freighter 270 114 July 1943
FS-45 US Army freighter 270 114 July 1943
253993 Betty and David trawler 47 61 1943
270224 T-161 US Army utility boat 40 65 Jan 1944 later Nancy Gale, Mary II, Rex II
277349 T-162 US Army utility boat 40 65 Jan 1944 later SES Propeller
T-163 US Army utility boat 40 65 Jan 1944 sank at Le Havre 1945
T-164 US Army utility boat 40 65 Jan 1944 to France 1947
272868 T-165 US Army utility boat 40 65 Feb 1944 later Linda Snow, Little Joe
296538 T-166 US Army utility boat 40 65 Feb 1944 later Esther Joy
278071 T-167 US Army utility boat 40 65 Feb 1944 later Alanita
270936 T-168 US Army utility boat 40 65 Feb 1944 later Gail Snow, Viking Star II, Capt. Bill Van, Viking Star, Seven Seas
269448 T-169 US Army utility boat 40 65 Mar 1944 later Wayzoff
T-170 US Army utility boat 40 65 Mar 1944
T-171 US Army utility boat 40 65 Mar 1944 to USAF
T-172 US Army utility boat 40 65 Mar 1944
T-173 US Army utility boat 40 65 Apr 1944 to France 1947
293029 T-174 US Army utility boat 40 65 Apr 1944 later Gulf Researcher, Yankee Lady
T-175 US Army utility boat 40 65 Apr 1944 to France 1947
T-176 US Army utility boat 40 65 Apr 1944 to France 1947
T-177 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1944 to France 1947
T-178 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1944 to France 1947
T-179 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1944 to France 1947
261116 T-180 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1944 later Rex, Chappie IV
T-181 US Army utility boat 40 65 May 1944
269548 T-182 US Army utility boat 40 65 June 1944 later Beverly Snow, Two Brothers
278561 T-183 US Army utility boat 40 65 June 1944 later Tropic Star
254597 T-184 US Army utility boat 40 65 June 1944 later Clay
T-185 US Army utility boat 40 65 June 1944 to USACE
T-186 US Army utility boat 40 65 July 1944
T-187 US Army utility boat 40 65 July 1944 to USCG
T-188 US Army utility boat 40 65 July 1944
T-189 US Army utility boat 40 65 July 1944
295611 T-190 US Army utility boat 40 65 Aug 1944 later Aquanaut II
255010 T-191 US Army utility boat 40 65 Aug 1944 later Mary Lynn, Hackberry, Penny Lynne
T-192 US Army utility boat 40 65 Aug 1944
T-193 US Army utility boat 40 65 Aug 1944 to USCG
268256 T-??? US Army utility boat 43 61 1942 later Maryland
252448 T-??? US Army utility boat 40 65 1942 later Alan
259972 T-??? US Army utility boat 40 65 1942 later Medora, Beryl
249828 T-??? US Army utility boat 40 65 1943 later Elsie Jane
276987 T-??? US Army utility boat 56 62 1944 later Antigua
246899 North Wind Euclid W. Lewis trawler 33 45 1944 later Ann Bryan
246929 Bessie Ann C. W. Lang trawler 33 45 1944 stranded 1965
247090 Judith Fay E. C. Canal Fisheries trawler 33 45 1944
272799 Carite U. of Puerto Rico miscellaneous 53 60 1944
J-2196 US Army utility boat 27 Nov 1944
J-2197 US Army utility boat 27 Nov 1944
J-2198 US Army utility boat 27 Nov 1944
J-2199 US Army utility boat 27 Nov 1944
J-2200 US Army utility boat 27 Dec 1944
J-2201 US Army utility boat 27 Dec 1944
J-2202 US Army utility boat 27 Dec 1944
J-2203 US Army utility boat 27 Dec 1944
J-2204 US Army utility boat 27 Jan 1945
J-2205 US Army utility boat 27 Jan 1945
J-2206 US Army utility boat 27 Jan 1945
J-2207 US Army utility boat 27 Jan 1945
J-2208 US Army utility boat 27 Feb 1945
J-2209 US Army utility boat 27 Feb 1945
J-2210 US Army utility boat 27 Feb 1945
J-2211 US Army utility boat 27 Feb 1945
J-2212 US Army utility boat 27 Mar 1945
J-2213 US Army utility boat 27 Mar 1945
J-2214 US Army utility boat 27 Mar 1945
J-2215 US Army utility boat 27 Mar 1945
247297 McClain's Pride No. 1 William M. McClain shrimp boat 49 57 1945 later Wanda Ginger
247298 McClain's Pride No. 2 William M. McClain shrimp boat 49 57 1945 later Barbara Lynn
247399 Choctaw Thorvald Andersen trawler 33 45 1945
247549 Gannet Hilliard Hiller trawler 48 57 1945
Fiesta aux. cutter 28 1946 later Nualana, Axacon
Andiamo Morton R. Miller aux. cutter 28 1947
Geronimo power boat 22 1948 later Rip Tide
254886 Mateka III power boat 21 46 1948 later Darmy
257469 Jupiter George M. Jones, Jr. power boat 45 54 1948 later Wololi, Double Eagle
MSC-91 Vila do Porto (M-408) Portuguese Navy minesweeper 390 20 Sep 1953 scrapped 1976
MSC-92 Santa Cruz (M-409) Portuguese Navy minesweeper 390 13 Feb 1954 scrapped 1973
Candy Lynn power boat 19 1956 later Punki, Spunky

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