Naval architecture -- Designs and plans
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
American Ship Building Company and Predecessors records
Chicago Ship Building Company records
The records of the Chicago Shipbuilding Company span the years from 1890 to 1962 and document early twentieth-century shipbuilding on the Great Lakes. The bulk of the materials in the collection fall between 1900 and 1950. The most significant record series include dry dock ledgers and reports, legal and labor correspondence, South Yard surveys, financial records, and World War I shipbuilding activities.
Great Lakes Engineering Works records
Naval architectural drawings for most of the vessels built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, as well as construction specifications documents for a handful of them. Includes the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Great Lakes Historical Society collection
Miscellaneous Naval Architectural Drawings collection
This collection contains naval architectural drawings held by the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes that were not created by the American Shipbuilding Company or Great Lakes Engineering Works. The dates covered are 1867-1992.
Proposed Longitudinal Strength Standard for Great Lakes vessels
Correspondence, memoranda, and other materials relating to proposed changes in the strength requirements in the construction of Great Lakes bulk carriers.
Walter Smith Miscellaneous Ship Drawing collection
Drawings prepared for lake vessels from 1900-1920 have been assembled from several shipyards. Such companies as Sidney McLouth, Chicago Ship Building, Detroit Dry Dock, and Great Lakes Engineering Works are represented. Unique approaches to vessel design can be viewed in the work of S.B. Kingsbury and Charles L. Seabury. Modelers may find lists of specifications pertinent to their projects.
Wilford G. Bartenfeld papers
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Name
- American Ship Building Company 3
- Chicago Ship Building Company 3
- American Bureau of Shipping 1
- American Steel Barge Company (Duluth, Minn.) 1
- Bartenfeld, Wilford G. 1
- Bowen, Dana Thomas, 1896-1980 1
- Bradley Transportation Company 1
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company 1
- Collingwood Shipbuilding Company 1
- Columbia Iron Works 1
- Craig Ship Building Company (Toledo, Ohio) 1
- Davie Industries, Inc. 1
- Defoe Shipbuilding Company 1
- Delta Shipbuilding Company 1
- Detroit Dry Dock Company 1
- Edmund Fitzgerald (Ship) 1
- Fermann, William A., Naval Architect 1
- Globe Iron Works 1
- Great Lakes Engineering Works 1
- Great Lakes Historical Society 1
- Labadie, Charles Patrick 1
- Merritt, Chapman, and Whitney (Cleveland, Ohio) 1
- Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation 1
- National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. Maritime Preservation Division 1
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation 1
- Pusey and Jones Company 1
- Seech, Carl 1
- Smith, Walter 1
- Sparrows Point Yard (Sparrows Point, Md.) 1
- Steinman, D.B. (David Barnard) (June 11, 1886-August 21, 1960) 1
- Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company 1
- Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd 1
- Union Dry Dock Company 1
- United States. Coast Guard. District, 9th 1
- United States. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Ships 1
- Wakefield Family 1
- West Bay City Shipbuilding Company 1
- Wright, Richard J., Dr., 1935-1986 1
Subject Source
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Subject Term Type
- Topical
- Naval architecture
- Genre / Form
- Designs and plans