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Birchfield Shipbuilding, Tacoma WA

Most recent update: April 3, 2011.

Birchfield Shipbuilding & Boiler Co., Inc., 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 timcolton@aol.com

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Type # Tons Delivered Disposition
    US Coast Guard WLI 65302   1942 Later named Blueberry, sold 1976 as fishing vessel, active
1 Port Angeles US Maritime Commission V2-ME-A1 432 325 3-Apr-42 To USN 1942 as Hiawatha (YT 265), sold 1990 as Hiawatha, then Point San Pablo, Delta Lindsey
2 Port Blakely US Maritime Commission V2-ME-A1 433  325 16-Mar-42 To USN 1942 as Pocahontas (YT 266), sold 1972 as Sea Lark, then Lark, Sea Lark
3 Port Discovery US Maritime Commission V2-ME-A1 434  325 23-Dec-42 To USN 1942 as Pogatacut (YT 267), sold 1970, scrapped
4 Port Ludlow US Maritime Commission V2-ME-A1 435  325 8-Mar-43 To USN 1942 as Red Cloud (YT 268), scrapped 1987
5 Port Madison US Maritime Commission V2-ME-A1 436  325 26-Apr-43 To USN 1942 as Sakarissa (YT 269), to MARAD 1974 as TD 64, now at Amphib. Forces Memorial Museum
6 Port Orchard US Maritime Commission V2-ME-A1 437  325 19-May-43 To USN 1942 as Santanta (YT 270), sold 1972 as Sea Fox, scrapped?
  [one of following] US Army     168g 1943 Sold 1947 as Tai Fung, barge 1950
7   US Army FS 48 167g 1943 Sold as Birchfield, then fishing vessel Wm Fraser, now Viking
8   US Army FS 49   1943  
9   US Army FS 50 199g 1943 Sold as Tolstoi, then Heron, existence in doubt 1991
10   US Army FS 51 168g 1943 To the Philippines as Governor Roosevelt, existence in doubt 1989
11   US Army FS 52   1943  
12   US Army FS 53   1943  
13   US Army FS 54  168g 1943 To the Philippines as Governor Stimson, existence in doubt 1989
14   US Army FS 55   1943  
15   US Army FS 91 168g  1943-44 To the Philippines as Princesa de Beliran, existence in doubt 1989
16   US Army FS 92   1943-44  
17   US Army FS 93   1943-44  
18   US Army FS 94   1943-44  
19   US Army FS 95 168g  1943-44 To the Philippines as Governor Murphy, existence in doubt 1989
20   US Army  FS 96   1943-44  
21   US Army ST 680 156g 1944-45 Sold 19xx as Naytellinas
22   US Army ST 681 156g 1944-45  
23   US Army ST 682 156g 1944-45  
24   US Army ST 683 156g 1944-45 Sold 194x as Aspen, then Ocean Joy, Macduff 1950
25   US Army ST 684 156g 1944-45  
26   US Army ST 685 156g 1944-45  
    US Navy YTL 593 51g 1945 Sold 1961 as Renown, active
    US Navy YTL 594 53g 23-Oct-45 Sold 1982 as YTL 594, then John N, active
    US Navy YTL 595 53g   Cancelled
    US Navy YTL 596 53g   Cancelled
    US Navy YTL 597 53g   Cancelled
    US Navy YTL 598 53g   Cancelled
    US Navy YTL 599 53g   Cancelled
  Bluebell US Coast Guard  WAGL 313   24-Mar-45 Later WLI 313, active
  Chicken of the Sea Harold Morgan Fishing   476g 1945 Later Southern Seas, sank 1968 in Panama
38 ? Al Davies Fishing     1946  
  Deep Sea Deep Sea Trawlers Inc  Fishing   197 1947 Burnt 2012
  Jimmy M   Fishing     1948  
  ? Alfred & Robert Erickson Fishing     Jul-48  
  Situk Libby, McNeil and Libby  Motor Scow    35 1949 Later fishing vessel, active
  Esther B   Fishing     1949  
  Libby No. ?? Libby, McNeil and Libby Fishing     1949?  
  Libby No. 9 Libby, McNeil and Libby Fishing     1949?  
  Libby No. 10 Libby, McNeil and Libby Fishing     1950?  
  Libby No. 11 Libby, McNeil and Libby Fishing     1950?  
  Libby No. 12 Libby, McNeil and Libby  Fishing   27 1951 Active
  Zimovia Wayne A. Davenport Fishing   35 1948 Active
  Carmelita II (Mexico) Fishing     1950  
  Jeanne Lynn   Fishing     c1950  
  C 13456-79 US Navy RPC     1965-66 24 river patrol craft built for service in Viet Nam