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Lancaster Iron Works, Perryville MD

Most recent update: October 15, 2010.

Lancaster Iron Works opened a small shipyard in Perryville for the war effort and closed it in 1950.  It was located in Frenchtown, about a mile above Perryville, just below the railroad bridge.  See the site from the air on Google here.  If anyone can provide any information about the ships it built, please e-mail me at timcolton@aol.com.

Hull #

Original Name

 Original Owner

Type

 Govt. Type # Tons Delivered Disposition
  803   Tank Barge     460 1941 Active
  804   Tank Barge     460 1941 Active
  805   Tank Barge     460 1941 Active
  806   Tank Barge     460 1941 Active
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2000 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2001 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2002 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2003 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2004 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2005 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2006 155 1941  
    U.S. Army Derrick Barge BD 2007 155 1941  
    U.S. Navy Lighter YFN 296 170 1942  
    U.S. Navy Lighter YFN 297 170 1942  
      Deck Barge     820 1942 Now Joe
      Freight Barge     783 1943 Now Big Eagle
201 Spindletop U.S. Mar. Comm. Tanker T1-M-A1 571   Jul-43 To Britain 1943, sold 1946 as Lake Charles, self-unloader Atlas Traveler 1962, Loc Bay 1976, Badger State 1980, scrapped 1988
202 Cotton Valley U.S. Mar. Comm. Tanker T1-M-A1 572   Sep-43 To Britain 1943, sold 1947 as Paraggi, N. S. di Montallegro 1964, Eleanor X 1995
203 Rouseville U.S. Mar. Comm. Tanker T1-M-A1 573   Nov-43 To Britain 1943, mined and lost off the River Seine 1944
204 Golden Meadow U.S. Mar. Comm. Tanker T1-M-A1 574   Dec-43 To Britain 1943, sold 1947 as Yung Tung, scrapped 1962
208   U.S. Navy Tanker YO   650 1944  
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 47 633 Jul-44 To Panama 1946 as Y 47
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 48 633 Aug-44 Disposition unknown
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 49 633 Sep-44 To Norway 1946 as Kloverstrand
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 50 633 Oct-44 To China 1946 as Ming Sung No. 1
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 51 633 Nov-44 To Russia 1946 on loan
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 55 633 Dec-44 To Russia 1946 on loan
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 57 633 Jan-45 To Russia 1946 on loan
    U.S. Army Tanker Y 58 633 Feb-45 Retired in the 1960s
224     Fish Factory     1,134 1945 Now Cape Greig
233 Delaware Belle   Passenger     949 Sep-46 Hudson Belle 1955, George Washington 1963, now Kulamanu