Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc.

Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc. was a large-scale World War II ship manufacturing shipyard, located at Superior, Wisconsin, United States.

Once built the ships can travel to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The Butler Brothers started as an iron ore mining company in Cooley and Nashwauk, Minnesota in the 1920s and 1930s.

Butler Brothers Construction first large contract was building Macalester College in Saint Paul.

Other projects included working on the House wing of the North Dakota State Capitol (1903) and Detroit River Tunnel (1906-1910).

During World War II Globe employed 2,500 workers, 10% were female, their president was Clarence Skamser.

The Globe had a baseball team that played other shipyards, including Marine Ironworks & Shipbuilding and Zenith Dredge.

[23] Some of Walter Butler Shipbuilders Duluth ships:[24] Duluth shipyard built C1-M-AV1 type C1 cargo ships, 2239 tons, 3,805 DWT:[25] Enbridge Ogdensburg Pier was opened in 1950 at the site of the former Walter Butler Superior shipyard.

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