12 Major Shipbuilders

These 12 companies operate (or used to operate) fully developed, large shipyards building large naval combatants and/or deep-draft, oceangoing merchant ships, and have (or had) a significant and impressive record of performance, through good times and bad and including both world wars.  These tables are generally complete but the dispositions of the individual ships are still being added.

Active Shipbuilders:

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works Corporation (Bath ME)

General Dynamics - Electric Boat Company (Groton CT)

General Dynamics - NASSCO (San Diego CA)

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - Newport News Operations (Newport News VA)

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - Avondale Operations (New Orleans LA)

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - Ingalls Operations (Pascagoula MS)

Inactive Shipbuilders:

Bethlehem Steel Company (Quincy and Squantum MA) (formerly Fore River Shipbuilding and later General Dynamics, Quincy)

Bethlehem Steel Company (San Francisco and Alameda CA) (formerly Union Iron Works and later San Francisco Dry Dock)

Bethlehem Steel Company (Sparrows Point MD) (formerly Maryland Steel and later Baltimore Marine Industries)

Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (Kearny NJ) - COMPLETE

New York Shipbuilding Company (Camden NJ) - COMPLETE

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (Chester PA) (later Pennsylvania Shipbuilding) - COMPLETE