87 Significant Shipbuilders

These companies generally operate (or used to operate) well developed, mid-sized shipyards capable of building mid-sized to large merchant ships, mid-sized naval vessels, offshore drilling rigs and high-value, high-complexity small commercial vessels.  The first group listed constitute what is now known as the "second tier" of the U.S. shipbuilding industry.

Active Shipbuilders (22):

Atlantic Coast (2):

Aker Philadelphia (Philadelphia PA)

Atlantic Marine Florida (Jacksonville FL)

Gulf Coast (15):

Atlantic Marine Alabama (Mobile AL) (formerly ADDSCO, Alabama Maritime and Alabama Shipyard)

Bender Shipbuilding (Mobile AL)

Bollinger Shipyards (Lockport LA), including Bollinger Marine Fabricators (Amelia LA) (formerly McDermott Shipbuilding) and Bollinger Gretna (Gretna LA) (formerly Gretna Machine & Iron Works)

Keppel O. & M. USA (Brownsville TX) (formerly Marathon LeTourneau and AMFELS)

North American Shipbuilding (Larose LA), including North American Fabricators (Houma LA) and Gulf Ship (Gulfport MS)

Signal International (Orange TX) (formerly TDI-Halter), including Signal International (Pascagoula MS) (formerly Friede Goldman Offshore)

Tampa Bay Shipbuilding (Tampa FL) (formerly Tampa Shipyards)

VT Halter Marine (Pascagoula MS) (formerly Halter Pascagoula and Chicago Bridge & Iron), including VT Halter Marine (Moss Point MS) (formerly Halter Moss Point) and VT Halter Marine (Escatawpa MS) (formerly Moss Point Marine)

Inland and Great Lakes (4):

Bay Shipbuilding (Sturgeon Bay WI) (formerly Christy Corp. and Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding)

JeffBoat (Jeffersonville IN) (formerly Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company)

LeTourneau (Vicksburg MS) (formerly Marathon LeTourneau)

Marinette Marine (Marinette WI)

Pacific Coast (1):

Todd Pacific Shipyards (Seattle WA) (formerly Sea-Tac Shipbuilding)

Inactive Shipbuilders (65):

Atlantic Coast (23):

Bethlehem Steel Company (Baltimore MD) (formerly Baltimore Dry Dock & Shipbuilding and Columbia Iron Works)

Bethlehem Steel Company (Elizabethport NJ) (formerly Crescent Shipyard and Samuel Moore Co.)

Bethlehem Steel Company (Staten Island NY)

Bethlehem Steel Company (Wilmington DE) (formerly Harlan & Hollingsworth)

City Point Iron Works (South Boston MA) (formerly Harrison Loring)

Continental Iron Works (Brooklyn NY)

Cramp Shipbuilding Company (Philadelphia PA)

Derecktor Shipyards (Middletown RI)

Downey Shipbuilding (Arlington NY) (formerly Townsend & Downey)

Dravo Corporation (Wilmington DE)

Lake Torpedo Boat Co. (Bridgeport CT)

Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation (Chester PA) (formerly Chester SB, Delaware River Iron SB & EW, J. Roach & Sons SB, and Reaney, Son & Archbold)

Merrill-Stevens Shipbuilding (Jacksonville FL)

Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Company (Philadelphia PA)

New York Harbor & Dry Dock (Port Jefferson NY) (formerly Bayles Shipyard)

Phoenix Foundry (New York NY) (formerly Hogg & Delamater and Delamater Iron Works)

Pusey & Jones (Wilmington DE)

Seatrain Shipbuilding (Brooklyn NY)

Trigg Co., William R. (Richmond VA)

Turner. A. A. (Trenton MI)

Webb, William H. (New York NY)

Welding Shipyards, Inc. (Norfolk VA)

West Point Foundry (Cold Spring NY)

Gulf Coast (9):

Bethlehem Steel Company (Beaumont TX) (later Trinity Beaumont)

Gulfport Shipbuilding (Port Arthur TX) (formerly Gulfport Boiler & Welding)

Halter Chickasaw (Chickasaw AL) (formerly Gulf Shipbuilding and Chickasaw Shipbuilding)

Ingalls Iron Works (Decatur AL)

Levingston Shipbuilding (Orange TX)

Southern Shipbuilding (Slidell LA) (formerly Canulette Shipbuilding)

Tampa Shipbuilding Company (TASCO) (Tampa FL)

Todd Shipyards (Galveston TX) (formerly Gray's Iron Works)

Todd Shipyards (Houston TX) (formerly Brown Shipbuilding)

Inland and Great Lakes (20):

American Ship Building Company (Buffalo NY) (formerly Buffalo Dry Dock)

American Ship Building Company (Chicago IL) (formerly Chicago Shipbuilding)

American Ship Building Company (Cleveland OH) (formerly Cleveland Shipbuilding and Globe Iron Works)

American Ship Building Company (Detroit MI) (formerly Detroit Shipbuilding and Detroit Dry Dock)

American Ship Building Company (Lorain OH)

American Ship Building Company (Superior WI) (formerly Superior Shipbuilding and American Steel Barge)

American Ship Building Company (Toledo OH) (formerly Toledo Shipbuilding and Craig Shipbuilding)

American Ship Building Company (West Bay City MI) (formerly West Bay City Shipbuilding and F. W. Wheeler & Co.)

Bell's Steam Engine Works (Buffalo NY)

Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., Walter (Duluth MN)

Defoe Shipbuilding (Bay City MI) (formerly Defoe Boat & Motor Works)

Dravo Corporation (Pittsburgh PA)

Great Lakes Engineering (Ashtabula OH)

Great Lakes Engineering (Ecorse MI)

Great Lakes Engineering (St. Clair MI)

Manitowoc Shipbuilding (Manitowoc WI)

Marietta Manufacturing (Point Pleasant WV)

Peterson Builders (Sturgeon Bay WI) (formerly Peterson Boat Works)

Rees and Son, James (Pittsburgh PA)

Robertson, Duncan (Grand Haven MI)

Pacific Coast (13):

Albina Engine & Machine Works (Portland OR)

Bethlehem Steel Company (San Pedro CA) (formerly Southwestern Shipbuilding, later Southwest Marine)

Continental Iron Works (Vallejo CA)

Craig Shipbuilding (Long Beach CA)

Lockheed Shipbuilding (Seattle WA) (formerly Puget Sound Bridge & Dock)

Moore Dry Dock (Oakland CA) (formerly Moore & Scott Iron Works and Moore Shipbuilding)

Pacific Coast Engineering (PACECO) (Alameda CA)

Tacoma Boatbuilding (Tacoma WA)

Todd Pacific Shipyards (San Pedro CA) (formerly Los Angeles Shipbuilding)

Todd Pacific Shipyards (Tacoma WA) (formerly Sea-Tac Shipbuilding)

Western Pipe & Steel Company of California (San Francisco CA)

Western Pipe & Steel Company of California (San Pedro CA)

Willamette Iron & Steel Corp. (Portland OR)