Atlantic Marine Alabama, Mobile AL

(formerly Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company, [ADDSCO], Alabama Maritime and Alabama Shipyard)


Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO) was formed in January 1917 by the merger of four existing Mobile companies, the Alabama Iron Works, the Ollinger & Bruce Dry Dock Company, the Gulf Dry Dock Co. and the Gulf City Boiler Works.  It was one of the original nine WWII emergency yards, with four ways, built in 1941 with $19mm from the U.S. Maritime Commission.  Its four ways were increased to twelve in the third wave of shipbuilding expansion to allow it to build T2 tankers.  The labor force peaked at about 18,500, of whom about 6,000 were African-American.  After the war, the yard reverted to being primarily a repairer, with only occasional forays into shipbuilding, but it was reorganized in 1980, with the new construction work assigned to Alabama Maritime Corporation, with a new sequence of hull numbers, while ship repair was done under the original company name.  In 1989 it was sold to Atlantic Marine Holdings and the new construction side became Alabama Shipyard, while the repair side became Atlantic Marine Mobile.  In 2006, it was sold again, to JFL Partners, LLC, and the whole yard is now called Atlantic Marine Alabama.  See an aerial view on Google here.

Hull # Original Name Original Owner  Type GRT Delivery Disposition
1 Ruth   Sternwheeler   Jul-16  
2 Rena A Murphy Capt. J. G. Murphy Schooner 483 May-18 Stranded on Cape Corrientes, Cuba, 1924
3 Floating Dry Dock  USSB/ADDSCO Dry Dock   1919  
4 Banago USSB Freighter 2,551 Sep-18 Scrapped 1923
5 Alta USSB Freighter 2,551 Jun-19 Scrapped 1924
6 Swan (AM 34) United States Navy Minesweeper 950d Jan-19 Reclassified AVP 7 1936, scrapped 1947
7 Whippoorwill (AM 35) United States Navy Minesweeper 950d Apr-19 Reclassified ATO 169 1944, scrapped 1947
8 Bittern (AM 36) United States Navy Minesweeper 950d May-19 Damaged in air raid on Cavite 1941 and scuttled
9 Darien Panama Canal Co. Coal Barge 3,916 Mar-20 Later Debardeleben Marine III, Texas Gulf Sulphur 8 1969)
10 Mamei Panama Canal Co. Coal Barge 3,916 Jul-20 Later Patricia Sheridan 1969
11   R. W. Hillcoat & Co. Barge   May-21  
12   R. W. Hillcoat & Co. Barge   May-21  
13   R. W. Hillcoat & Co. Barge   May-21  
14 T.C.I. No. 1 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Jul-23  
15 T.C.I. No. 2 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Jul-23  
16 T.C.I. No. 3 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Jul-23  
17 T.C.I. No. 4 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Jul-23  
18 T.C.I. No. 5 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Aug-23 Later W-5
19 T.C.I. No. 6 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Aug-23  
20 T.C.I. No. 7 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Aug-23  
21 T.C.I. No. 8 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Aug-23  
22 T.C.I. No. 9 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Dec-23  
23 T.C.I. No. 10 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 1924 Later W-10
24 T.C.I. No. 11 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 1924  
25 T.C.I. No. 12 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 1924  
26 T.C.I. No. 13 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 1924 Later W-10
27 T.C.I. No. 14 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Aug-24  
28 T.C.I. No. 15 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 Aug-24  
29 T.C.I. No. 16 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 1924  
30 T.C.I. No. 17 Tennessee Coal Iron & R.R. Co. Barge 315 1924 Later W-13
31     Barge 315 1925  
32     Barge 315 1925  
33     Barge 315 1925  
34     Barge 315 1925  
35     Barge 315 1926  
36     Barge 315 1926  
37     Barge 315 1926  
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