# Superior Shipbuilding Company

46°44′09″N 92°05′26″W﻿ / ﻿46.735868°N 92.090511°W﻿ / 46.735868; -92.090511 The Superior Shipbuilding Company was originally called the American Steel Barge Company, and based in Duluth, Minnesota. It was founded by Scottish Captain Alexander McDougall who founded it so he could produce his new whaleback ship, this was Whaleback Barge 101. In 1900 McDougall sold his firm to the American Ship Building Company which transferred the company to Superior, Wisconsin and renamed it Superior Shipbuilding Company, also called AmShip Superior. After World War I the yard stopped manufacturing ships and instead turned to repair work. They continued repairing ships until 1945 when American Ship Building Company decided to sell it. It was initially known as the Knudsen Brothers Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company. In 1955 it was renamed Fraser-Nelson Shipyards then Fraser Shipyards and still exists today. Fraser Shipyards does dry dock work, also conversions: steam to diesel and coal-fired to oil-burning. Lake Assault boat builders operate out of Fraser Shipyards.

## Ships built
### American Steel Barge Company of Duluth, Minnesota

| Ship | In service | Out of service | Length (ft) | Vessel type | Fate |
| Whaleback Barge 101 | 1888 | December 3, 1908 | 178 | Whaleback barge | Foundered 30 miles off Seal Island in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of seven lives. |
| Whaleback Barge 102/Sir Joseph Wentworth | 1889 | December 15, 1905 | 253 | Whaleback barge | Foundered south of Cape Charles with the loss of six lives. |
| Whaleback Barge 103/John Scott Russell | 1889 | May 23, 1909 | 253 | Whaleback barge | Foundered Sandy Hook. There were no deaths. |
| Whaleback Barge 104 | 1890 | November 11, 1898 | 276.50 | Whaleback barge | Stranded near Cleveland, Ohio when the towline connecting her and the tug Alva B broke. |
| Whaleback Barge 105/Baroness | 1890 | November 10, 1910 | 276.50 | Whaleback barge | Foundered approximately ten miles southwest of Fire Island Light Vessel, New York. There were no deaths. |
| Colgate Hoyt | 1890 | December 26, 1909 | 276.42 | Whaleback steamer | Stranded off Seaside Park, New Jersey. There were no deaths. |

### American Steel Barge Company of Superior, Wisconsin

| Ship | In service | Out of service | Length (ft) | Vessel type | Fate |
| Whaleback Barge 107/Bombay | 1890 | January 3, 1913 | 276.50 | Whaleback barge | Foundered five miles northwest of the Handkerchief Light Vessel, near the Nantucket Shoals.. |
| Joseph L. Colby | 1890 | 1935 | 265 | Whaleback steamer | Scrapped in 1935, in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Whaleback Barge 109/Baravia | 1891 | January 23, 1914 | 265 | Whaleback barge | Sank off Montauk Point, Long Island Sound. There were no deaths. |
| Whaleback Barge 110/Badger | 1891 | March 3, 1932 | 265 | Whaleback barge | Blew up at one of the dock of the Cities Service Export Oil Company at St. Rose, Louisiana. One life was lost. |
| Whaleback Barge 111/Ivie | 1891 | May 10, 1916 | 265 | Whaleback barge | Rammed by the steamer Berkshire near Hampton Roads. |
| Charles W. Wetmore | 1891 | September 8, 1892 | 265 | Whaleback steamer | Stranded in Coos Bay, Oregon in heavy fog. She was declared a total loss and abandoned on September 13, 1892. |
| E.B. Bartlett | 1891 | December 14, 1916 | 265 | Whaleback steamer | Wrecked in Cape Cod with a cargo of coal bound for Boston. |
| A.D. Thomson | 1891 | 1936 | 265 | Whaleback steamer | Scrapped in Chicago, Illinois, in 1936. |
| S.O.Co. No. 55 | 1891 | January 1917 | 125 | Barge | Sank in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |

### Superior Shipbuilding Company of Superior, Wisconsin

| Ship | In service | Out of service | Length (ft) | Vessel type | Fate |
| G.A. Flagg | 1901 | 1927 | 332 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1927. |
| Randolph S. Warner | 1901 | 1926 | 332 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1926. |
| Christopher | 1901 | 1970 | 410 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1970, in Hamilton, Ontario. |
| Sultana | 1902 | 1975 | 326 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1975. |
| G.J. Grammer | 1902 | 1964 | 326 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1964, in Humberstone, Ontario. |
| Sonora | 1902 | 1965 | 353.16 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1965, in Ashtabula, Ohio. |
| James H. Hoyt | 1902 | 1968 | 363.16 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1968, in Santander, Spain. |
| John Sharples | 1903 | 1914 | 255 | Package freighter | Scrapped in 1947, on the East Coast. |
| H.G. Dalton | 1903 | 1970 | 255 | Package freighter | Scrapped in 1970, in Hamilton, Ontario. |
| D.G. Kerr | 1903 | 1961 | 468 | Lake freighter | Stranded off Ardrossan, Scotland in 1961; and later scrapped in Troon, Scotland. |
| D.M. Clemson | 1903 | December 1, 1908 | 468 | Lake freighter | Foundered on Lake Superior; all 24 crew members died. Location unknown. |
| Henry S. Sill | 1903 | 1947 | 416 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1947, in Hamilton, Ontario. |
| Wisconsin | 1903 | 1946 | 428 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1946, in Hamilton, Ontario. |
| George W. Perkins | 1905 | 1981 | 569 | Lake freighter | Scrapped by Triad Salvage Company in 1981, in Ashtabula, Ohio. |
| Abraham Stearn | 1906 | 1974 | 545 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1975, in Europe. |
| E.J. Earling | 1906 | 1969 | 555 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1969, in Santander, Spain. |
| Edward Y. Townsend | 1906 | October 7, 1968 | 603 | Lake freighter | Broke away from the tug Hudson, and sank about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. |
| Sheldon Parks | 1907 | 1964 | 552 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1964, in Genoa, Italy. |
| George F. Baker | 1907 | 1979 | 601 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1979, in Ashtabula, Ohio by the Triad Salvage Company. |
| Ward Ames | 1907 | 1980 | 550 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1980, in Thunder Bay, Ontario by Western Metals Corporation. |
| H.P. Bope | 1907 | 1978 | 560 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1978, in Santander, Spain. |
| Rufus P. Ranney | 1908 | 1961 | 440 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1961, in La Spezia, Italy. |
| J.F. Durston | 1908 | 1961 | 452 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1961, in Hamburg, Germany. |
| Peter Reiss | 1910 | 1973 | 524 | Lake freighter | Scrapped in 1973, in Port Colborne, Ontario by the Dwor Metal Company. |
| C.W. Cadwell | 1911 | 1999 | 164 | Dredger | Presumed scrapped in 1999. |
| Robert J. Close | 1913 | 1988 | 86.42 | Crane barge | No longer registered in the United States between 1982 and 1988. |
| Sir Trevor Dawson | 1916 | 1970 | 600 | Lake freighter | Arrived for scrapping in Santander, Spain on June 8, 1970. |