Marine Iron & Shipbuilding, Duluth MN
Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Company was started by Napoleon Grignon in 1880. After WWI, it became a major contractor for the Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard, but closed after WWII. The yard was on W. Railroad Street at the foot of 11th Avenue West, roughly where Georgia-Pacific and North America Salt are today: see the site from the air on Google here. It had two ways, launching southwesterly into Slip #6, which was later filled in but you can see where it was on Google. The yard closed in the 1950s. If anyone can add to the table below, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.
Most recent update: 15 July 2014.
| Hull # | O.N. | Name | Customer | Type | GT | Feet | Delivery | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 694896 | Merganser | Faust Corporation | Barge | 133 | 1924 | Active | |
| na | Coleman | Corps of Engineers | Derrick Barge | 502 | 1924 | |||
| na | Menasha | Corps of Engineers | Towboat | 193 | 1926 | |||
| 18 | 520212 | Galen | Enmanco | Towboat | 11 | 1930 | Now Madison | |
| na | Racine | Corps of Engineers | Towboat | 66 | 66 | 1931 | Still active, but her builder's plate is in the Holiday Inn Express in Waukegan IL, here | |
| na | Muskegon | Corps of Engineers | Towboat | 66 | 66 | 1931 | ||
| na | Quintus | Corps of Engineers | Towboat | 66 | 66 | 1931 | Later Bonanka 1961, Lomax 1972, Mary Alice 1975, sank 1975, scrapped 1980 | |
| 529247 | Barlow | Corps of Engineers | Towboat | 66 | 66 | 1931 | Later Killarney 1969, R. W. Richards 1971, active | |
| 233255 | Prairie State | Great Lakes Dredge | Towboat | 16 | 1934 | NLD | ||
| 233256 | Paddy Miles | Dunbar & Sullivan | Towboat | 16 | 1934 | NLD | ||
| 294277 | Manitou | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1934 | |||
| Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1934 | Later observed as No. 6 | ||||
| Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1935 | Later observed as No. 7 | ||||
| Belvoir | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1935 | ||||
| Coosaw | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1935 | ||||
| Gunston | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1935 | ||||
| 260514 | Fort Macon | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1935 | Scrapped 1978. | ||
| 268695 | Fort Fisher | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1935 | Later Absecon | ||
| 949808 | Oatka | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1936 | Later Gull, Miss Midway, Oatka, active | ||
| 294993 | Haskell | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1936 | Active | ||
| 272711 | Perault | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1937 | Later Martha M | ||
| Rostock | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1937 | Later Dana II | |||
| 292961 | E-15 | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1937 | Later Johnny | ||
| 258521 | S-1 | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1937 | Later Reef, NLD | ||
| 269338 | S-2 | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1937 | Later Chief | ||
| 573706 | MO 103 | Peninsula Bay Ent. | Freight Barge | 150 | 19-- | NLD | ||
| 642862 | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1937 | Now Eclipse | |||
| 289790 | NY-15 | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1938 | Later Rambler 1962, Irene Ellen 1994, Rambler, Vintage Lady | ||
| 257733 | NY-18 | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1938 | Later Caparra 1949, to Brazil 1950 | ||
| 238999 | Marine Trader | Isadore Kaner | Freighter | 54 | 1939 | NLD | ||
| 299840 | Anahuac | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1940 | NLD | ||
| 254203 | Pee Dee | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1940 | Later Eva 1947 | ||
| Abingdon | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1941 | ||||
| 274814 | Wakefield | Corps of Engineers | Tender | 40 | 1941 | Later Bob White 1957, scrapped 1973 | ||
| 255474 | Grebe | Trygve A. Roth | Fishing | 121 | 1942 | NLD | ||
| 270185 | Sadie | Fraser Shipyards | Freight Barge | 101 | 1943 | Active | ||
| 1030383 | Maple (WAGL 234) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 342 | 15-Jun-39 | To USN 1973, to EPA 1974 as Roger R. Simons, sold 1995 | ||
| na | Cactus (WAGL 270) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 1-Sep-42 | Sold 1973, abandoned 2008, scrapped 2013 | ||
| na | Cowslip (WAGL 277) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 17-Oct-42 | To Nigeria 2003 as Ologbo (A 502), active | ||
| na | Clover (WAGL 292) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 8-Nov-42 | To USN 1990, sunk as target 1992 | ||
| na | Evergreen (WAGL 295) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 30-Apr-43 | To USN 1990, sunk as target 1992 | ||
| na | Citrus (WAGL 300) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 30-May-43 | To Dom. Rep. 1995 as Almirante Juan Acosta (C 456), active | ||
| na | Conifer (WAGL 301) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 1-Jul-43 | Training hulk in Seattle | ||
| na | Mesquite (WAGL 305) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 27-Aug-43 | Wrecked 1989 | ||
| na | Buttonwood (WAGL 306) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 24-Sep-43 | To Dominican Republic 2001 | ||
| na | Planetree (WAGL 307) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 4-Nov-43 | Scrapped 2019 | ||
| na | Papaw (WAGL 308) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 12-Aug-43 | To Estonia 1999 as PVL 110, active | ||
| na | Sweetgum (WAGL 309) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 20-Nov-43 | To Panama 2002 as Independencia (401) | ||
| na | Basswood (WAGL 388) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 12-Jan-44 | Sold 2000 | ||
| na | Blackhaw (WAGL 390) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 17-Feb-44 | Decommissioned 1993, sunk as target | ||
| na | Blackthorn (WAGL 391) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 27-Mar-44 | Sunk after collision in Tampa Bay 1980 | ||
| na | Hornbeam (WAGL 394) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 14-Apr-44 | To G. L. Hist. Soc. 1999, later Rum Cay Grace, wrecked in Colon 2013 | ||
| na | Redbud (WAGL 398) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 2-May-44 | To Philippines 1972 as Kalinga (AG 89), active | ||
| na | Sassafras (WAGL 401) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 23-May-44 | To Nigeria 2003 as Obula (A-504), active | ||
| na | Sedge (WAGL 402) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 5-Jul-44 | To Nigeria 2003 as Kyanwa (A-501), active | ||
| 1102856 | Spar (WAGL 403) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 12-Jun-44 | In storage in Curtis Bay 1997, reefed off Georgia 2003 | ||
| na | Sundew (WAGL 404) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 24-Aug-44 | To City of Duluth 2004, sold 2009 | ||
| na | Sweetbrier (WAGL 405) | US Coast Guard | Tender | 935 | 26-Jul-44 | To Ghana 2001 | ||
| na | Naubuc (YN 108) | US Navy | Net Layer | 775 | 15-Mar-45 | Later AN 84, YRST 4, scrapped 1975 | ||
| na | Oneota (YN 109) | US Navy | Net Layer | 775 | Apr-45 | Later AN 85, to MARAD 1962, sold? | ||
| na | Passaconaway (YN 110) | US Navy | Net Layer | 775 | 27-Apr-45 | Later AN 86, to Dom. Rep. 1976 as Separacion (P 208), active | ||
| na | YN 111 | US Navy | Net Layer | 775 | Cancelled | |||
| na | YW 91 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Sold? | ||
| na | YW 92 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | To Italy 1948 as Adige, struck 1989 | ||
| na | YW 111 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | To the Philippines 1975 | ||
| na | YW 112 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 | ||
| na | YW 113 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Sunk as target 1990 | ||
| na | YW 114 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 | ||
| na | YW 115 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Sunk as target 1975 | ||
| na | YW 116 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 | ||
| na | YW 133 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Cancelled | ||
| na | YW 134 | US Navy | Water Barge | 440 | 1945 | Cancelled | ||
| 587265 | Ocean Pacific | Ocean Pacific Fish | Fishing | 906 | 1945 | Active | ||
| 250609 | Bluebird | Tolvo T. Lukkonen | Fishing | 16 | 1946 | NLD | ||
| 256746 | Carroll Jean | Allouez Marine | Freighter | 9 | 1946 | NLD |
