114 Emergency Shipbuilders
In both world wars, the U.S. Government stimulated the creation of a large number of emergency shipyards. Some were devoted to naval shipbuilding, others to merchant shipbuilding. Many of the latter group also built the simpler types of naval ships. The civilian agencies involved were the U.S. Shipping Board, in World War I, and the U.S. Maritime Commission, in World War II. Most of the emergency yards closed and were liquidated at the end of the war, or soon thereafter: A few took on a new life and are listed in other categories of this collection.
WWII Emergency Shipbuilders (84):
Atlantic Coast (27):
American Car & Foundry (Wilmington DE)
American Machinery (Orlando FL)
Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Inc. (Baltimore MD)
Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyards, Inc. (Hingham MA)
Brunswick Marine (Brunswick GA)
Camden Shipbuilding (Camden ME)
College Point Boats (College Point NY)
East Coast Shipyards (Bayonne NJ)
Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (Newark NJ)
John & Associates (Rye NY)
J. A. Jones Construction Company (Brunswick GA)
Lancaster Ironworks (Perryville MD)
Miami Shipbuilding (Miami FL)
Moyer & Son (Ocean City NJ)
Muzzio Bros. (Stamford CT)
New England Shipbuilding Company (South Portland ME)
New Jersey Shipbuilding (Barber NJ)
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company (Wilmington NC)
Northeast Shipbuilding (Quincy MA)
Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation (Camden NJ)
Robinson, W. A. (Ipswich MA)
Snow Shipyards (Rockland ME)
Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation (Savannah GA)
St. John's River Shipbuilding Company (Jacksonville FL)
Walsh-Kaiser Company, Inc. (Providence RI)
Wareham Shipyard (Wareham MA)
Wheeler Shipbuilding (Whitestone NY)
Gulf Coast (7):
Brown Shipbuilding Company (Houston TX)
Consolidated Steel Corporation (Orange TX)
Delta Shipbuilding Company (New Orleans LA)
J. A. Jones Construction Company (Panama City FL)
McCloskey & Company (Tampa FL)
Pendleton Shipyard Company (New Orleans LA)
Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation (Houston TX)
Inland and Great Lakes (22):
American Bridge Corp. (Pittsburgh PA)
Bison Shipbuilding (Buffalo NY)
Butler Shipbuilders, Walter (Superior WI)
Cargill Inc. (Savage MN)
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (Seneca IL)
Chrysler Corp. (Detroit MI)
Darby Steel Products (Kansas City KS)
Eddy Shipbuilding (Bay City MI)
Fisher Boatworks (Detroit MI)
Froemming Bros. (Milwaukee WI)
Globe Shipbuilding (Superior WI)
Kansas City Steel (Kansas City KS)
Kewaunee Shipbuilding (Kewaunee WI)
Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company (Evansville IN)
Mount Vernon Bridge & Iron (Mount Vernon OH)
Odenbach Shipbuilding (Rochester NY)
Omaha Steel Works (Omaha NB)
Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Works (Memphis TN)
Pullman Standard Car Mfg. (Chicago IL)
Quincy Bargebuilders (Quincy IL)
Stadium Yacht Basin (Cleveland OH)
Zenith Dredge Company (Duluth MN)
Pacific Coast (28):
Associated Shipbuilders, Inc. (Seattle WA)
Basalt Rock Co. (Napa CA)
Birchfield Shipbuilding & Boiler Co., Inc. (Tacoma WA)
California Shipbuilding Corporation (Los Angeles CA)
Consolidated Steel Corporation (Wilmington CA)
Everett Marine Ways (Everett WA)
Grays Harbor Shipbuilding (Aberdeen WA)
Hickinbotham Bros. (Stockton CA)
Hodgson-Greene-Haldeman (Long Beach CA)
Hoquiam Shipyard (Hoquiam WA)
Kaiser Company (Portland OR)
Kaiser Company (Richmond CA)
Kaiser Company (Vancouver WA)
Kyle & Co. (Stockton CA)
Lake Washington Shipyards (Houghton WA)
Marinship Corporation (Sausalito CA)
Motor Boat Marina (Seattle WA)
Northwestern Shipbuilding (South Bellingham WA)
Oregon Shipbuilding Company (Portland OR)
Pacific Bridge Company (San Francisco CA)
Permanente Metals Corporation, #1 Yard (Richmond CA)
Permanente Metals Corporation, #2 Yard (Richmond CA)
Permanente Metals Corporation, #3 Yard (Richmond CA)
Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding (Stockton CA)
South Coast Shipbuilding (Newport Beach CA)
United Engineering (Alameda CA)
Victory Shipbuilding (Newport Beach CA)
Wood, Clyde W. (Stockton CA)
Builders of Concrete Ships Various
Builders of Wooden Ships Various
WWI Emergency Shipbuilders (30):
Atlantic Coast (14):
American International Shipbuilding Corporation (Hog Island PA)
Atlantic Corp. (Portsmouth NH)
Carolina Shipbuilding (Wilmington NC)
Groton Iron Works (Groton CT)
Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation (Bristol PA)
Newburgh Shipyards (Newburgh NY)
Providence Engineering (Providence RI)
Pusey & Jones (Gloucester City NJ)
L. H. Shattuck Shipyard (Portsmouth NH)
Standard Shipbuilding (Shooters Island NY)
Submarine Boat Company (Newark NJ)
Terry Shipbuilding (Savannah GA)
Texas Steamship (Bath ME)
Virginia Shipbuilding (Alexandria VA)
Gulf Coast (4):
Oscar Daniels Company (Tampa FL)
Doullut & Williams (New Orleans LA)
Mobile Shipbuilding (Mobile AL)
Pensacola Shipbuilding (Pensacola FL)
Inland and Great Lakes (2):
Globe Shipbuilding (Superior WI)
Saginaw Shipbuilding (Saginaw MI)
Pacific Coast (10):
Ames Shipbuilding (Seattle WA)
Columbia River Shipbuilding (Portland OR)
Duthie Shipbuilding, J. F. (Seattle WA)
Hanlon Dry Dock & Shipbuilding (Oakland CA)
Northwest Steel Company (Portland OR)
Pacific Coast Shipbuilding (Bay Point CA)
Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding (Seattle WA)
Skinner & Eddy (Seattle WA)
G. M. Standifer Construction (Portland OR)
Union Construction Company (Oakland CA)