Ships, Iron and steel -- Specifications

Abstract The primary component of this collection is naval architectural drawings produced by the company, its predecessors, and subsidiaries. Post-1900 sets tend to be more complete than earlier sets of drawings. Nearly all types of wooden and steel vessels built on the Great Lakes between 1870 and 1981 are represented. The Center for Archival Collections holds many of the original drawings extending up to 1981. Other corporate records such as minutes, correspondence, specifications, reports, and...

Scope and Contents

Dock trials and sea trials specifications manuals, calibration tables for fuel tanks, and hull outfit inventory and sanitation inspection certificates.

Abstract

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.