In 1873, Ward's Wyandotte Iron Ship Building Works built the nation's earliest steel-hulled vessel, a tugboat called the Sport.

The steel-hulled vessel with the nameplate Shrezsan flew the flag of Hamor from a jackstaff above the stern.

The next project was an expensive (.1 4,000) steel-hulled vessel built at the Clyde shipyards of Alfred Yarrow & Company for reassembly in North America.

LV-117 was a steel-hulled vessel with steel deckhouses fore and aft, a funnel amidships for engine exhaust, and two masts.

The rugged construction of this steel-hulled vessel, combined with her speed and endurance, make Grasp well-suited for rescue and salvage operations throughout the world.

As designed by White, Leopard was a steel-hulled vessel of 1,557 tons displacement.

Yorktown operated with that unit as it developed tactical maneuvers for use by the new steel-hulled naval vessels then coming into service in the United States Navy.

The destruction showed the vulnerability of wooden hulled steamers, one of the reasons why the Puget Sound Navigation Company switched to steel-hulled vessels.

The final commercial freight run up the Peace River was made by the Watson Lake, a steel-hulled vessel, in September 1952.

In 1907, the Racine-Truscott-Shell Boat building Company of Muskegon, Michigan was awarded a contract to build the steel-hulled vessel.