- Founded
- 1931
- Coordinates
- 44.8342° N, 87.3763° WGoogle Maps: Sturgeon Bay Shipyard and Drydock CompanyDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingeconomyheritage
Summary
The Sturgeon Bay Shipyard and Drydock Company is named as an operation John Roen built after moving his Great Lakes base from Charlevoix to Sturgeon Bay in 1931. The December 1970 accounts place the George M. Humphrey salvage and recommissioning in this shipyard context.
Evidence and limits
The obituary says the shipyard had been sold in recent years but provides no sale date, corporate records, location details, or complete construction and repair history.
Open questions
- What were the shipyard’s exact dates, owners, and legal successor?
- Can Sturgeon Bay records document its facilities and the 1944 salvage work?
See also
Sources
- Charlevoix Courier, December 9, 1970, “Death Claims Captain: Roen Steamship Empire Was Launched in Charlevoix.”Says John Roen built the Sturgeon Bay Shipyard and Drydock after moving his operation in 1931, and that the latter had been sold in recent years. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
- Places Roen's salvage of the George M. Humphrey at his shipyard and says the repaired vessel was recommissioned there.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1970-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-12_Beaver-Beacon
- ArcGIS World Geocoding Service, city-level lookup for Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, retrieved 2026-08-06.Returned a city-level point at longitude -87.376269, latitude 44.834209. The held accounts identify Sturgeon Bay as the company’s setting but give no facility address or exact historic yard location; this is a city locator.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Sturgeon Bay Shipyard and Drydock Company”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/sturgeon-bay-shipyard-and-drydock/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix Courier, December 9, 1970, “Death Claims Captain: Roen Steamship Empire Was Launched in Charlevoix.” (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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