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340 feet on the blocks, 360 feet overall, fifty feet wide at the gate, and had twenty feet of water over the sill.4 Between 1880 and 1882 Presley built seven propellers and one schooner, the Magnetic (1882). Included in the steamers were the Republic, Colonial, and Continental. In 1887 a new company was formed - the Cleveland Dry Dock Company - which represented Presley and the Globe Iron Works. Under this new title, the bulk steamers Pasadena, Hesper, and George Presley were built. They also built the small ferries Duluth and Superior, and the passenger steamer Atlanta. The latter was built for the famous Goodrich Transit Company of Chicago. In 1896 Cleveland Dry Dock Company purchased the property and dry docks of the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company. They became a part of the large American Shipbuilding holdings in 1899. In the 1880's there were also two small yards in Cleveland which did sporadic building. One of these was Murphy and Miller. Thomas Francis Murphy has already been mentioned in his association with William H. Quayle. After that partnership was dissolved, in 1879, Murphy went to Bay City, Michigan, were he and his brother sub-contracted for the construction of the steamer Waldo A. Avery and the schooner Alta, with F. W. Wheeler and Company. In 1886 he returned to Cleveland where he formed a partnership with William J. Miller. Miller had already built the tugs L. Starkweather (1872) and Ida Simms (1873), barge John O'Neil (1873) and L. C. Hutchinson (1882), and propeller V. Swain (1874). Murphy and Miller had a small yard on the north side of the Old River Bed. Here they engaged in much vessel repair and rebuilding. They also built several yachts, a government dredge, and several scows and lighters. The only vessel of any size that they launched was the propeller Aurora, in 1887, for the Corrigan Brothers and William S. Mack. The yard was still in operation at the turn of the century but went out of business shortly afterwards. The other small Cleveland firm that did some building during this period was that of Patrick Smith. Smith was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1827. In 1836 his parents came to the United States and settled in Cleveland. In 1847, Pat Smith purchased a pile driver and went into business. His holdings gradually grew and in 1873 he expanded into the towing business. He ran a small shipyard and floating dry dock at 1 River Street, which would place him at the entrance to the Old River Bed, on Whiskey Island. Here he rebuilt the tug Peter Smith in 1874. In 1879 he 80