J. F. Duthie & Company was a small shipyard that was organized in 1911 and expanded in WWI to build cargo ships for the U.S. Shipping Board. It was located on the East Waterway, on land leased from the Port of Seattle. In 1928 its name was changed to Wallace Bridge Company. Duthie came from the well-known Scottish shipbuilding family in Aberdeen: he worked briefly at Herreshoff, in Bristol RI, and then at Wolf & Zwicker, in Portland OR. If anyone can fill any of the gaps in the table below, please e-mail it to me at timcolton@aol.com
| Hull # | USSB # | Original Name | Original Owner |
Type |
GT | Delivery | Disposition |
| 1 | Unimak | Whalecatcher | 146 | 1912 | |||
| 2 | Kodiak | Whalecatcher | 146 | 1912 | |||
| 3 | Starr | San Juan Fishing | Trawler | 371 | Sep-12 | Scrapped 1940 | |
| 4 | Leschi | Port of Seattle | Ferry | 433 | 1913 | Later trawler St. Elias 1977, wrecked 1980. Click here for some great pictures. | |
| Robert Bridges | Port of Seattle | Ferry | 168 | 1916 | Later Mount Vernon 1923, scrapped c1952 | ||
| 8 | War Leopard/Westpoint | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Jan-18 | Scrapped 1938 | |
| 9 | Hallbjorg/Westerner | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Feb-18 | Scrapped 1933 | |
| 10 | War General/Westfield | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Feb-18 | Scrapped 1930 | |
| 11 | War Topaz/Westbridge | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | May-18 | Later Barbara Cates 1929, Pan Gulf 1938, Lermontov 1945, scrapped 1966 | |
| 12 | War Emerald/Western Sea | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Jun-18 | Scrapped 1931 | |
| 13 | Not used | ||||||
| 14 | War Sun/Westover | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | May-18 | Torpedoed and lost 1918 | |
| 15 | War Moon/Westboro | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Apr-18 | Later Jane Christenson 1926, Stalingrad 1942, Kharkov 1945, scrapped 1968 | |
| 16 | Viviani/Western Star | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Aug-18 | Scrapped 1933 | |
| 17 | War Fort/Western King | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Mar-18 | Scrapped 1938 | |
| 18 | War Disk/Western Cross | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Aug-18 | Scrapped 1931 | |
| 19 | War Ruby/Western Hope | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Sep-18 | Scrapped 1933 | |
| 20 | Petain/Westpool | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Oct-18 | Torpedoed and lost 1941 | |
| 21 | 1471 | West Helix | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | May-19 | Later Pacific Hemlock 1927, Vermont 1937, Izmail 1945, scrapped 1965 |
| 22 | 1472 | West Hembrie | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | May-19 | Later Pacific Oak 1929, Ingul 1943, Taras Shevchenko 1945, scrapped 1963 |
| 23 | 1473 | West Hematite | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Jun-19 | Later Irish Pine 1941, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
| 24 | 1474 | West Henshaw | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Jul-19 | Later Golden Cross 1928, Kohala 1938, Petr Tchaikovsky 1945, hulked 1966 |
| 25 | 1475 | West Hepburn | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Aug-19 | Later Charles Christenson 1927, Plekhanov 1945, Professor Lobachevskiy 1949, scrapped 1956 |
| 26 | 1476 | West Herkimer/Seattle Spirit | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Aug-19 | Torpedoed and scuttled 1942 |
| 27 | 1477 | West Herrick/Dewey | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Sep-19 | Later Golden Fleece 1928, Louisianan 1937, Empire Gannet 1940, Arion 1946, St. Elefterio 1956, foundered 1958 |
| 28 | 1478 | West Hesperia/Deuel | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Nov-19 | Later Capac 1926, Cardina 1940, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
| 29 | 1479 | West Hesseltine | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Jan-20 | Later Monfiore 1926, captured by U.S. 1941 and renamed White Clover, Lev Tolstoi 1945, Carla Laviosa 1956, scrapped 1960 |
| 30 | 1480 | West Ivan | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Jan-20 | Later Golden West 1928, Canadian 1937, captured by Japan 1941 and renamed Hokusei Maru, Nikkin Maru 1941, torpedoed and lost 1944 |
| 31 | 2602 | West Campgaw | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Mar-20 | Later Capira 1941, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
| 32 | 2603 | West Mahwah | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | May-20 | Later Norse King 1938, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
| 33 | 2604 | West Tri State | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Cancelled | |
| 34 | 2605 | West Wykoff | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Cancelled | |
| 35 | 2606 | West Kashuga | US Shipping Board | Cargo Ship | 5,600 | Cancelled | |
| 36 | Griffco | Cargo Ship | 1,500 | 1920 | Later Kaala 1928, wrecked off Molokai 1932 | ||
| 37 | Griffdu | Cargo Ship | 1,500 | 1920 | Later Noyo 1935, Nang Suang Nawa 1940, captured by Britain 1942 and renamed Empire Adur, Nang Suang Nawa 1948, lost en route to breakers 1955 |