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Columbia River Shipbuilding, Portland OR

Most recent update: August 4, 2010.

Columbia River Shipbuilding was an emergency yard, organized in 1918 to build cargo ships for the U.S. Shipping Board: it closed at the end of the war, after building 32 ships.  Its owners were A. F. Smith and J. Frank Watson, owners of the Smith and Watson Iron Works, and it was managed by Charles D. Bowles, who was also associated with J. F. Duthie Shipbuilding, in Seattle.  The shipyard was next door to Northwest Steel's shipyard, on the west bank of the Willamette River, on SW Moody Avenue at the foot of SW Woods Street, which is where the Ross Island Bridge is now: see the site from the air on Google here.

Hull # USSB # Name Owner

Type

 GT Delivery

Disposition
1   War Sirdar/Westward Ho UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 Mar-19 Later Izan Maru 1938, wrecked and abandoned 1939
2   Santiam/Westbrook Norway Cargo Ship 5,600 Mar-18 Later Wind Rush 1929, Kavkaz 1945, scrapped 1977
3   War Agate/West Gate UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 May-18 In collision and lost 1918
4 1644 War Diamond/West Indian UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 May-18 Scrapped 1938
5   War Bullet/West Grove UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 Apr-18 Scrapped 1930
6 1645 War Arrow/Western City UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 Jun-18 Later Empire Turnstone 1942, torpedoed and lost 1942
7 1646 War Dagger/West Coast UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 Jul-18 Scrapped 1930
8 1647 Nivelle/Western Plains France Cargo Ship 5,600 Oct-18 Scrapped 1936
9 1648 War Spear/Western Pride UK Admiralty Cargo Ship 5,600 Aug-18 Scrapped 1931
10 1649 Poincare/Western Belle France Cargo Ship 5,600 Nov-18 Scrapped 1938
11 1081 West Cobalt US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Dec-18 Later Empire Miniver 1940, torpedoed and lost 1940
12 1082 West Wauneke US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Jan-19 Later Dorothy Cahill 1929, Pan-Atlantic 1938, De Soto 1938, Luga 1943, wrecked off Sakhalin 1948
13 1083 West Corum US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Feb-19 Later William H. Point 1941, scrapped 1947
14 1084 West Imboden US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Mar-19 Torpedoed and lost 1942
15 1085 West Munham US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Apr-19 Later Konzan Maru 1938, torpedoed and lost 1945
16 1086 West Totant US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 May-19 Later Empire Moorhen 1941, sunk as breakwater at Normandy 1944
17 1087 West Quechee US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 May-19 Later Empire Panther 1940, mined and lost 1943
18 1088 West Nosska US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Jun-19 Later Tazan Maru 1938, torpedoed and lost 1942
19 1693 West Harcuvar US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Feb-19 Later Anzan Maru 1938, torpedoed and lost 1944
20 1694 West Hardaway US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Mar-19 Torpedoed and lost 1942
21 1695 West Hargrave US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Apr-19 Scrapped 1933
22 1696 West Harlan US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Jun-19 Scrapped 1933
23 1697 West Harma/City of Eureka US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 May-19 Later Explorer 1928, Timber Rush 1933, wrecked off Acapulco 1940
24 1698 West Harquahala/Mount Evans US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Jul-19 Scrapped 1946
25 1699 West Harshaw US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Jul-19 Later Empire Oryx 1940, Empire Robin 1941, Ferdinand Bol 1942, in collision and lost 1942
26 1700 West Harts US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Aug-19 Later Texas 1929, Kapitan Vislobokov 1945, Omsk 1952, scrapped 1959
27 1701 West Hartland US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Aug-19 Later Michigan 1928, torpedoed and lost 1943
28 1702 West Hartley US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Sep-19 Scrapped 1936
29 1703 West Hasson US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Oct-19 Later Siletz 1919,  Vtoraya Pyatiletka 1943, scrapped 1967
30 1704 West Hassayampa US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Jan-20 Scrapped 1938
31 1705 West Hastan US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Cancelled
32 1706 West Haswell US Shipping Board Cargo Ship 5,600 Cancelled
33   Corvus Cargo Ship 5,600 1919 Later Flomar 1930, Uzbekistan 1945, scrapped 1946
34   Circinus Cargo Ship 5,600 1919 Later Vermar 1930, Kamanets-Podolsk 1942, Karaganda 1945, scrapped 1967