Commercial Steel Boat Construction Costs

Does anyone know what it costs per ton to build a large steel working boat?

Thanks!!

I had to ask my son the same thing its for a school report! After I did this is what he would like to find out:

In his school report about our economic times vs. the 1920's and we are using shipbuilding as the subject.

Can you tell me the cost or how this cost in building steel ships is done now a days at todays prices?

This is the data we are comparing to:

A study by Fougner Concrete Ship building Company, Flushing Bay, New York, reported calculated cost was $290 per deadweight ton for Cape Fear and Sapona, whereas for Selma and Latham (built in Mobile) the figure was $282.

The hull of the Selma cost $786,754 with 33.1% material, 44% direct labor, and 22.9% overhead with outfitting as much again.

These costs were similar for a steel ship's onstruction during the same period - 1920's.

Thanks in advance for any help at all with this!

Thanks V65 for that info!

I am more interested in todays prices also interested in the cost for steel boats because we are doing a comparison to the old days and fiberglass was not being used then. You see there is more info out there for back then than there is now so it seems this info would have to come from someone in the buisness I suppose.

Thanks I will give that a try.