CHARLES REEDER & SONS

Baltimore MD

Most recent update: May 19, 2016.

Charles Reeder & Sons was Baltimore's first manufacturer of steam engines: it opened in 1813 and closed in 1904.  They expanded into shipbuilding on only a modest scale, building only five complete ships, but in their later years they did good business outfitting hulls built elsewhere.  Their plant was at the foot of Federal Hill, on the north side, where Rash Field is today.
Hull # O.N. Original Name Original Owner Vessel Type GT Feet Built

Disposition

  na Galveston U.S. Coast Guard Revenue Cutter 416   1891 Later Apache, scrapped 1950
  116539 Sassafras   Passenger 403   1892 Later Annapolis
  136568 Easton C. C. Wheeler Passenger 460   1896 Later Apache 1917, Le Sahel 1926, scrapped 1938
  116827 Susquehanna W. Elliassen Passenger 462   1898 Later Francis Scott Key 1941, scrapped 1952
  20624 Queen Anne   Passenger 651   1899