Birchfield Shipbuilding & Boiler Co., Inc., Tacoma WA

Little is known about this company, which was located on the west side of the Blair Waterway, in the port of Tacoma.  The yard built some fishing vessels in the years immediately after the war but has been gone for a long time now.  If anyone has any information either about the yard itself or about the ships it built, please send it to me at tim@coltoncompany.com

Hull #

Original Name

 Original Owner Type Type MC # Tons Delivered Disposition
1 Port Angeles V2-ME-A1 432 Nov-42 To US Navy 1942 as Hiawatha (YT 265), scrapped
2 Port Blakely V2-ME-A1 433 Dec-42 To US Navy 1942 as Pocahontas (YT 266), sold private 1972, scrapped
3 Port Discovery V2-ME-A1 434 Dec-42 To US Navy 1942 as Pogatacut (YT 267), sold private 1970, scrapped
4 Port Ludlow V2-ME-A1 435 Mar-43 To US Navy 1942 as Red Cloud (YT 268), sold private 1972, scrapped
5 Port Madison V2-ME-A1 436 Apr-43 To US Navy 1942 as Sakarissa (YT 269), to MARAD 1974, scrapped
6 Port Orchard V2-ME-A1 437 May-43 To US Navy 1942 as Santanta (YT 270), sold private 1972, scrapped
      FS 48   1943 Sold private as Birchfield
      FS 49   1943  
      FS 50   1943 Sold private as Tolstoi
      FS 51   1943 To the Philippines as Governor Roosevelt
      FS 52   1943  
      FS 53   1943  
      FS 54   1943 To the Philippines as Governor Stimson
      FS 55   1943
      FS 91   1943-44 To the Philippines as Princesa de Beliran
      FS 92   1943-44  
      FS 93   1943-44  
      FS 94   1943-44  
      FS 95   1943-44 To the Philippines as Governor Murphy
      FS 96   1943-44  
  ST 680 1944-45  
  ST 681 1944-45  
  ST 682 1944-45  
  ST 683 1944-45  
  ST 684 1944-45  
  ST 685 1944-45  
Bluebell     WAGL 313   24-Mar-45 Active, based in Portland OR
Renown James O. Hopkins Fishing     51 1945 Active
Tori Red Dog Marine Tug     54 1946 Active
Deep Sea factotum Fisheries Fishing     197 1947 Active
Libby No. 12 Dana B. Ostrom Fishing     27 1947 Active
Zimovia Wayne A. Davenport Fishing     35 1948 Active
Situk Norquest Seafoods Fishing     35 1949 Active