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Posted By: Walt Mathers on: 02/13/2010 04:46:28 EST
Subject: About Skinner's Shipyard & 1906 Tug BALTIMORE

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Harry George Skinner, president of the most important shipbuilding company in Baltimore on the eve of the Great War, was born in that city, December 17, 1858. He was a son of William Henry and Martha Anne (Wilson) Skinner, and the family has been connected with shipbuilding industries for a great number of years.

From the earliest days of its existence Baltimore has been foremost in the building of ships, and as years have passed it had not lost its supremacy in this line, which had in its front rank the company headed by Mr. Skinner.

The firm, which had been organized by the father and uncle of Mr. Skinner, was first known as William Skinner & Sons, and later as William Skinner & Sons Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Baltimore City, when, in 1899, the interests were combined, and Mr. Skinner, who had taken charge of affairs upon the death of his father and uncle, was made president and treasurer of the corporation.

In March, 1906, Mr. Skinner and his corporation, capitalized at $1,600,000, obtained control for $287,500 of the shipbuilding plant, dry dock and machine shops formerly belonging to the Baltimore Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (ex.-Columbian Iron Works), and uniting these with the interests of the William Skinner & Sons Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Baltimore City, a new company was formed under the name of the Skinner Shipbuilding and Dock Company of Baltimore City, of which Mr. Skinner was president and treasurer.

It was also later in 1906 that the Municipal City Tug BALTIMORE was launched at the ex.-Columbian Iron Works by William Skinner & Sons Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company


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