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Quartermaster Corps of the Army. They had a wooden shed built over the hulls of the submarine chasers so that they might work unhindered by weather. These vessels were built parallel to each other so that one had to be launched before the other inside vessels could be finished. This company dropped from business in 1919. The only small ship building companies that appeared after the First World War were the Stadium Boat Works and Rud Machine Company, both in Cleveland, and Hans Hansen Welding Company in Toledo. The Stadium Boat Works was established just west of the Municipal Stadium in 1932, to repair pleasure craft. A marine railway was built, and in the late 1930's they extended their operations to include small Coast Guard crafts. In 1941 they landed a $2,600,000 Navy contract for building eight 185-foot wooden mine sweepers. At this time they employed 235 persons.33 One rather interesting departure from the normal shipbuilding routine was their method of "bending" timbers. The straight timbers were put in steam boxes, then, after a thorough soaking, were bent to the required shape in a room equipped with jigs. The Stadium Boat Works later built eighteen 135-feet wooden mine sweepers for the war effort. In 1945 they built the small steel passenger vessels Commuter and South Shore for service around the Lake Erie Islands. They also built the flat-top auto ferry Morris Brock for the Brockville and Morristown Ferry Company of Morristown, New York. She was designed by Eads Johnson who designed the electric ferries for New York Harbor.34 H. F. Leubbert was then general manager of the firm. In 1946 they built the fish tug Charles R., and in 1954, eight steel flat-bottomed river gunboats for the Brazilian Government. In 1955 the property was sold to the L. A. Wells Construction Company. During the winter, 1957-58, the sand dredge Grand Island was cut in half and lengthened at this yard. She was put back into the water as the Lesco. This was the last operation conducted in this small yard. In 1959 the marine railway was torn up and the property filled in. Today the West 3rd Street pier covers the site. In 1951 the Rud Machine Company, on the east side of the Cuyahoga River, almost opposite the mouth of the Old River Bed, launched the forty-ton motor vessel Erie Isle. Finally, in 1958, the Hans Hansen Welding Company of Toledo built the small motor vessel Mackinac Islander for the Arnold Transit Company of Mackinac Island, Michigan. She was launched from the site of the old Bailey Brothers' yard at the foot of Ash Street. 111