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In 1907, a new dry dock was built by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company with launching berths on either side. The older dry dock was in constant use. With the exception of one fourteen-day lapse, the dock was not idle for more than two days at a time for the entire year.27 The first vessel built by the Toledo Ship Building Company was the popular passenger ship Theodore Roosevelt. Then followed many bulk freighters, including several for the United States Transportation Company. Among the oddities turned out by the Toledo firm were three stern-wheel towboats, Miami, Guvadot, and Scioto, for the Corps of Engineers. In 1912 the freighters George E. Warren and L. V. Stoddard were built on ocean contract. Several self-propelled tank barges were built in 1916. In 1917 Toledo Ship Building built the freighters Tours and Limoges for allied nations and began construction on several vessels for Lamport and Holt of Liverpool, England--all with "War" surnames. When the United States entered World War I, Toledo Ship Building was included in the organization of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. They launched the Lamport and Holt vessels with "Lake" surnames, and between 1917 and 1920, built thirty freighters for the U. S. Shipping Board. In 1920, they finished three "Lakers," the Santa Isabel, Santa. Eulalia, and Santa Veronica, on a private contract basis. Then ship contracts began to drop off. Between 1920 and 1929, Toledo Ship Building launched one small auto ferry, four bulk freighters, two car ferries, a fire tug, a dredge, and two dump scows. The depression years were worse. Between 1930 and 1942, only one freighter, the Thomas W. Lamont, and two dump scows were built. During World War II, Toledo Ship Building launched two Coast Guard ice breakers, the Eskimo and the Mackinaw. Their yard was used largely for repair of the hard-pressed ore fleet, while other yards were filled with government contracts. After the war, work again fell off. Finally, in 1945, the American Ship Building Company purchased the entire yard and facilities of the Toledo works. In the spring of 1909, the City of Ashtabula made overtures to the Great Lakes Engineering Works, of River Rouge, Michigan, to build a new ship building plant in their town.28 That fall, the plans became a reality. In a vote of 2,916 to 44, the citizens of Ashtabula approved a bond issue of $390,000 to improve the Ashtabula River for a suitable site for the yard.29 The site was donated to the Great Lakes Engineering Works by the City after it had obtained it from the Pennsylvania Railroad in exchange for Point Park. Point Park, along the western side of the river below the swing 108