American Bridge Company, Pittsburgh PA

The American Bridge Company was founded in 1900 and was a subsidiary of United States Steel until it was spun off in 1987.  In WWI, it built fabricated sections of standard-design cargo ships assembled at the ship factories on the Atlantic Coast - Hog Island, Merchant Shipbuilding and Submarine Boat.  The company's Pittsburgh yard was building barges for the Army when the Navy requisitioned it in 1942 and invested $9mm in its improvement.  In addition to building LSTs, American Bridge also built structural components for 43 aircraft carriers and 81 cargo ships.  After the war it returned to building bridges.

Hull # Name Owner Type Pennant # GT Delivered

Disposition
  Coal King   Towboat     1928  
  Sarah Edenborn       259 1909  
  Sixty-One   Barge   427 1912  
  Sixty-Two   Barge   427 1912  
  Sixty-Three   Barge   427 1912  
  D.N. Company No. 101   Barge   342 1913  
  D.N. Company No. 102   Barge   342 1913  
  D.N. Company No. 100   Barge   342 1913  
  D.N. Company No. 103   Barge   342 1913  
  D.N. Company No. 104   Barge   342 1913  
  Slack Barrett       195 1914  
No name   BD 2008-2018 135 1941  
No name   BCL 1103-1111 60 6/42-11/42  
No name   BD 1234-1253 112 3/43-8/43  
No name   BCL 1282-1284 160 5/43-9/43  
No name   BC 1285-1288 110 1943  
No name   BCL 1292-1294 160 6/42-11/42  
No name   BCL 1430 160 Sep-43  
  No name   LST 261   5/22/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 262   6/15/43 Scrapped 1947
  Benton County   LST 263   6/30/43 Scrapped 1958
  No name   LST 264   7/16/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 265   7/27/43 Scrapped 1947
  Benzie County   LST 266   8/4/43 Scrapped 1959
  No name   LST 267   8/9/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 268   8/19/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 269   8/27/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 270   9/8/43 Sold private 1950
  No name   LST 271   9/1/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 272   9/17/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 273   9/24/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 274   9/28/43 Sold private 1950
  No name   LST 275   10/5/43 Scrapped 1947
  No name   LST 276   10/11/43 To MSTS 1952, to Singapore 1974, sold private