American Shipbuilding Company
The American Ship Building Company was the dominant shipbuilder on the Great Lakes before the Second World War. It started as Cleveland Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio in 1888 and opened the yard in Lorain, Ohio in 1898. It changed its name to the American Ship Building Company in 1900, when it acquired Superior Shipbuilding, in Superior, Wisconsin, Toledo Shipbuilding, in Toledo, Ohio, and West Bay Shipbuilding, in West Bay City, Michigan. With the coming of the First World War, AmShip also acquired Buffalo Dry Dock, in Buffalo, New York, Chicago Shipbuilding, in Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit Shipbuilding, in Wyandotte, Michigan.
Ships built by The American Shipbuilding Company
