Shelburne Shipyard, Shelburne VT

Most recent update: November 24, 2010.

The Shelburne Shipyard is one of our oldest, getting started in 1823.  Its first vessel was the steamship General Greene, built for the newly chartered Lake Champlain Transportation Company in 1825, which owned the yard for 113 years.  When World War II started, it was leased to Donovan Contracting Company, of St. Paul MN.  After the war, it was sold to Jerry and Wendell Aske and the yard went from defense work to building private yachts, returning briefly to defense contracting during the Korean War, when they shipped their boats to the West Coast by rail.  In 1968, the Askes sold Shelburne Shipyard and in 1971 it was sold again, but it continues in business today.  The yard is on Shelburne neck, at the extreme end of Harbor Road.  Visit the present-day company at www.shelburneshipyard.com and see it from the air on Google here.