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Dachel-Carter Shipbuilding, Benton Harbor MI

Most recent update: December 22, 2008.

Dachel-Carter was started in 1915 by two former employees of a Benton Harbor shipyard that failed.  In the late 1930s, it was saved from closing by new investors and had a busy WWII, growing to over 600 employees, although the Navy was never satisfied with its performance.  It folded after the war and the yard was leased to Truscott Boat, but that company failed in 1948.  Since hen the site has been a machining plant for Whirlpool Corporation.  See it from the air on Google here.    If anyone can provide any information about the boats that it built, please e-mail it to me at timcolton@aol.com.

Hull # Customer Type Type Pennant # Tons Feet Delivery Disposition
  US Shipping Board Tug         1919 Badger, later Dalzellite
  US Shipping Board Tug         1919 Leopard
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 140 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 141 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 142 37 75 1925 To USN 1933 as YP 25, to MARAD 1946
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 143 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 144 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 145 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 146 37 75 1925 To USN 1933 as YP 46, sold 1946
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 147 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 148 37 75 1925  
  US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 149 37 75 1925 To USN 1933 as YP 15, to MARAD 1946
  Chicago Yacht Club Eagle-class Sailboats         1925-26 Six boats
              1938 Ex-Paola, to USN 1942 as YP 531, to MARAD 1946
  US Navy Minesweeper BYMS 15 278   21-Jul-42 Returned 1946, sold 1947
  US Navy Minesweeper BYMS 16 278   9-Jun-42 Returned 1946, to Greece as contraband chaser
  US Navy Sub chaser SC 664 136   1-Aug-42  
  US Navy Sub chaser SC 665 136   1-Aug-42  
  US Army Boat, rescue P 98   104 Jan-43  
  US Army Boat, rescue P 99   104 Jan-43  
  US Army Boat, rescue P 100   104 Jan-43  
  US Army Boat, rescue P 101   104 Jan-43  
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 163 278   8-Mar-43 Struck 1946
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 164 278   27-Mar-43 Reclassified 1947 as Bobolink (AMS 2), converted 1955 to MHC 44, struck 1960
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 165 278   3-Apr-43 Struck 1946
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 166 278   27-May-43 Struck 1946
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 167 278   31-Jul-43 To Britain 1943 as BYMS 2167, sold 1948 as Rospiggen, sank 1975
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 168 278   29-Aug-43 To Britain 1943 as BYMS 2168
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 169 278   19-Jun-43 To France 1944 as Amarante (D 301), discarded 1961
  US Navy Minesweeper YMS 170 278   10-Jul-43 Reclassified 1947 as Bunting (AMS 3), converted 1955 to MHC 45, struck 1960
  US Navy Tug ATR 54 850 165 15-Nov-43 Disposed of 1946
  US Navy Tug ATR 55 850 165 26-Apr-44 Disposed of 1946
  US Navy Tug ATR 56 850 165 28-Jun-44 Disposed of 1946
  US Navy Tug ATR 57 850 165 17-Aug-44 Disposed of 1946
  US Navy Tug ATR 58 850 165 11-Aug-44 Disposed of 1946
  US Navy Tug ATR 59 850 165 7-Dec-44 Disposed of 1946
  US Navy Sub chaser PCS 1417 278   1-Dec-43  
  US Navy Sub chaser PCS 1418 278   1-Jan-44 Lost Dec-45
  US Navy Sub chaser PCS 1419 278   1-Mar-44  
  US Navy Sub chaser PCS 1420 278   1-Apr-44