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labor supply in the small Michigan town. As a result, the firm moved to Toledo in 1889, and established the Craig Ship Building Company. The oldest son, George L. Craig, was born in New York City on May 11, 1864. He served his apprenticeship under his father at the Gibraltar yard. George also spent three years as a draftsman in the office of the famous marine architect, Frank E. Kirby, of Detroit. George rejoined his father at Trenton in 1882 and later came to Toledo as general manager and vice president. The younger son, John F. Craig, was born at Gibraltar, Michigan, on May 18, 1868. He began work in the shipyard at Trenton, and joined the Toledo firm as secretary and treasurer. The first vessel built by the Craigs at Toledo was the schooner-barge Churchill, in 1889. She was followed by two more schooners and a yacht. Then, in 1891, they built the popular sidewheeler City of Toledo. This their first venture into steel shipbuilding. Among the many vessels built by the Craig Ship Building Company were ten lightships for the government, four railroad car ferries, two railroad car ferry barges, the sternwheeler Valley City, the fire tug Detroiter, several other tugs and yachts, and a few small passenger vessels. In 1899 the Craigs built two ocean steamers, the Mae, for the Puerto Rico Steamship Company of New York, and the Porto Rico, for the New York-Baltimore Transportation Company. Strangely enough, these were the only two steel freight steamers, exclusive of the car ferries, built by Craig prior to 1900. It would appear that Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, and other shipyard cities in which vesselmen's capital was involved, kept contracts under a tight rein. Altogether from 1889 to 1900, the Craig yard launched thirty-six hulls, and as yard numbers began with the Linn and Craig yard at Gibraltar, John Craig could count seventy-six vessels built by his three shipyards during a period of thirty-four years. 96