W. A. Robinson, Inc., Ipswich MA
William A. Robinson was an engineer from Kenosha WI whose early years were spent sailing the world. In 1937, he bought an existing small shipyard on Fox Creek, near Ipswich. The exact location is not clear but it was in the Argilla Road area. The plan was to build wooden sailing vessels but the war changed that. Sources say that the yard built over 200 vessels during the war, so there must have been many small craft as well as the 31 small ships listed below. Robinson moved to Tahiti after the war and the yard was razed. If anyone can add to the table below, please e-mail me at timcolton@aol.com.
| Original Name | Original Owner | Type | Navy Type | Pennant # | Tons | Delivery | Disposition |
| Swift | W. A. Robinson | Sailing Ship | 46 | 1939 | Later "Swift of Ipswich", owned from 1940 to 1958 by Jimmy Cagney, now owned by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute | ||
| Santa Cruz | Sailing Ship | 1940 | |||||
| Caribee | Sailing Ship | 1940 | |||||
| Accentor | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 36 | 205 | 24-Jul-41 | Sold private 1946, disposition unknown |
| Bateleur | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 37 | 205 | 26-Aug-41 | Sold private 1946, disposition unknown |
| Barbet | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 38 | 205 | 29-Sep-41 | Sold private 1946, disposition unknown |
| Brambling | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 39 | 205 | 15-Oct-41 | Sold private 1946, disposition unknown |
| Energy | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 78 | 205 | 1-Jan-42 | Reclassified 1943 as YDT 3 |
| Exultant | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 79 | 205 | 14-Jan-42 | Reclassified 1943 as YDT 4, sunk as target 1973 |
| Fearless | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 80 | 205 | Feb-42 | Reclassified 1943 as YDT 5, sunk as target 1973 |
| Fortitude | US Navy | Minesweeper | AMc | 81 | 205 | Mar-42 | Reclassified 1943 as YDT 2 |
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 75 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 76 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 77 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 78 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 79 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 80 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 81 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 82 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 83 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Transport | APc | 84 | 100 | 1942 | ||
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 676 | 136 | 27-Jul-42 | To France 1944 as CH 105, scrapped 1950 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 677 | 136 | 29-Aug-42 | Sold 1946 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 760 | 136 | 10-Sep-42 | Later PCC 760, to the NDRF 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 761 | 136 | 24-Sep-42 | To the NDRF 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 762 | 136 | 7-Oct-42 | To Brazil 1942 as Jutai | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 763 | 136 | 20-Oct-42 | To Brazil 1942 as Javari | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 764 | 136 | 1-Oct-42 | To Brazil 1942 as Jurui | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 765 | 136 | 3-Dec-42 | To Brazil 1943 as Jaguarao | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 766 | 136 | 11-Nov-42 | To Brazil 1943 as Juruena | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 767 | 136 | 2-Jan-43 | To Brazil 1943 as Jaguaribe | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1288 | 136 | 12-Feb-43 | To Brazil 1943 as Jacui | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1289 | 136 | 12-Mar-43 | To Brazil 1943 as Jundiai | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1290 | 136 | 15-Apr-43 | To Cuba 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1291 | 136 | 3-May-43 | To Cuba 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1292 | 136 | 19-May-43 | To the NDRF 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1293 | 136 | 4-Jun-43 | To the NDRF 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1294 | 136 | 7-Jul-43 | To the NDRF 1948 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1295 | 136 | 12-Aug-43 | To the USSR 1945 as BO 320 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1296 | 136 | 16-Sep-43 | To USCG 1945 | |
| US Navy | Sub Chaser | SC | 1297 | 136 | 8-Oct-43 | To USCG 1945 as Air Swallow (WAVR 469), sold 1948 | |
| Achigan | US Navy | Tug | YT | 218 | 9-Jan-45 | Sold 1975 | |
| William J | Fishing Vessel | 1944? | Sold to EFO 1945, renamed Terehau, sunk in Papeete 1974 | ||||
| Mother Ann | Fishing Vessel | 125 | 1944 | ||||
| Varua | W. A. Robinson | Brigantine | 1945 | Abandoned in Anacortes WA |