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A new tug was launched from the shipyard of Radcliffe and Langell on June 12. It is owned by Captain Greenbalch and it is to be called the Triad. The boiler with which it is equipped is said to be something new, but is not sufficiently completed to warrant a description. All the piston rods, piston rings, and valve stems of the engine are of cast steel, without set screws. The vessel will not be completed for some time.2 In 1878, Radcliffe bought out the interests of Ira Lafrinnier. Vessel repair was the main course of business in this yard until 1879. In the next four years Radcliffe built five propellers, the John N. Glidden (1879), A. Everett (1880), Fred H. Radcliffe and Rufus P. Ranney (1881), and Robert Wallace (1882). He also built two tugs, the Dreadnaught (1881), and George R. Paige (1882). As the demand grew for more hulls to carry the "red gold" from Lake Superior, Radcliffe built the propellers J. H. Outhwaite (1886), Frank L. Vance (1887), Maurice B. Grover (1887), and Wiley M. Egan (1887). In 1888 Radcliffe decided to build a dry dock in Cleveland. Accordingly, a new company was formed, the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company. The officers were Captain Thomas Wilson, of the Wilson Transit Company, president; Morris A. Bradley, son of Captain Alva Bradley, who had taken over his father's vessel interests, vice-president; Harvey D. Goulder, a brilliant marine lawyer, treasurer; and Gustave Cold, secretary. Radcliffe was the manager.3 The first dry dock was completed on May 1, 1889. It was 340 feet long, forty-eight feet wide, and had seventeen feet of water. The first dry dock was enlarged in 1895 to 450 feet in length, and fifty feet in width. A second dry dock, identical in size to the first one, was started in September 1890. In 1888 the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company launched the steamers Philip Minch, Gladstone, and Henry J. Johnson. In 1890 George L. Quayle took over Radcliffe's duties as manager. Radcliffe died shortly after. By this time, most revenue was gained by vessel repair. The last hull built by the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company was the dredge Maumee in 1893. In 1896 the property was sold to the Globe Iron Works. Another firm that represented Cleveland in the declining years of wooden shipbuilding was Presley and Company. In the preceding chapter the firm of Stephens and Presley was discussed. In 1876, Harvey Stephens was forced to sell his interests in the firm after a dry dock had been started in the present-day slip of the Huron Cement Company. The Globe Iron Works purchased the Stephens' half of the firm. However, George Presley still continued to run the company. The dry dock was completed, being 79