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Stone's Boatyard, Oakland CA

Most recent update: April 7, 2011.


Stone's boatyard was founded in 1853, in Tiburon, at a site that's where Sam's Anchor Cafe is now.  It moved to the Harbor View section of San Francisco in 1899, then to a site at Kennedy and Bocimer Streets in Oakland in 1912, and finally, in 1942, to 2517 Blanding Avenue, in Alameda, where it remained until it closed in 2007, after 154 years of operation.  See the final site from the air on Google here.  Despite this long life, there is very little about Stone's Boatyard on the internet, at least that I can find.  If anyone can provide any information about this yard's history or can add to the table below, please e-mail me at timcolton@aol.com.

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Type Tons Built Disposition

Built in San Francisco

  Richmond Atchison Topeka Tug   1900 Sold to Crowley 1926
  Santa Barbara Hanify & Co Cargo ship 695 1900 Scuttled 1943
  W. H. Marston   Schooner 1,169 1901  
  Santa Monica Hanify & Co Cargo ship 497 1902 To USN 1942 as YP 528, later YDG 4, wrecked in New California 1943, sold 1945
  Salem   Schooner 767 1902  
  Oakland   Schooner 418 1902  
  Elizabeth E. T. Kruse Cargo ship 363 1903 Foundered 90nm NW Tres Marias Is 1946
  Lady Ada   Yacht 28 1903 Active
  Sausalito   Schooner 367 1903  
  Arabs   Bay Freighter 155 1904  
  Anvil John J. Sesnon Co Cargo ship 363 1905 Deleted 1941
  Yankee   Yacht 20 1906 Active
  Martha   Yacht 30 1907 Active
  Carlos J. Homer Fritch Inc Cargo Ship 865 1908 Breakwater off Point San Pablo 1939
  Chilkat   Cargo Ship      
  Soquel   Schooner      
  Neptune   Schooner 197 1909  
  Moana   Schooner 200 1911  
  Atlas   Schooner 209 1911  

Built at Kennedy and Bocimer Streets in Oakland

  Golden State Union Fish Co Schooner 354 1913 Sold in Costa Rica 1943
  Standard No. 1   Bay Freighter 108 1913  
  Hermes   Schooner 209 1914  
  Commodore   Bay Freighter      
  Eagle   Bay Freighter      
  Gov. M. B. M.   Bay Freighter      
  Lark   Bay Freighter      
  Pedro Costa   Bay Freighter      
  Paladini Bros   Bay Freighter      
  Alex. Volta   Bay Freighter      
  Polar Bear   Bay Freighter      
  Falcon   Bay Freighter      
  Frank B   Bay Freighter      
  Westward   Yacht      
  Sources say that Stone built 16 tugs for Crowley in the years before World War I
  Ryder Hanify J. R. Hanify Co Steam Schooner 1,363 May-17 To France as Gabriel 1917, returned 1921, renamed George L. Olson, wrecked Coos Bay 1944
  Robert C. Sudden Sudden & Christensen Steam Schooner 1,363 Jun-17 To France as Hadrumette 1917, returned 1921, renamed Robert C. Sudden, later John C. Kirkpatrick 1922, Margaret Berg 1935, Cornelia 1936, West Coast 1940, exploded and burnt in L.A. harbor 1946
  Palawan     818 1918  
  Mauno   Cargo ship 253 Oct-17  
  Motau   Cargo ship 253 Oct-17  
  Murua   Cargo ship 253 Dec-17  
  Doris Crane   Cargo ship 351 Nov-20 Burnt 240nm N Honolulu 1927
  Sea Lion US Shipping Board Tug 472 Jan-21 Sold to Crowley, deleted 1944
  Sea Monarch US Shipping Board Tug 472 Mar-21 Sold to Crowley, in collision and lost off Bush Point 1925
  Sea Ranger US Shipping Board Tug 472 May-21 Sold to Crowley, later Wampatuck (YT 337) 1942, deleted 1955
  Sea Scout US Shipping Board Tug 472 Jun-21 Sold to Crowley, scrapped 1948
    US Shipping Board Tug 472   Cancelled
    US Shipping Board Tug 472   Cancelled
    US Shipping Board Tug 472   Cancelled
  Oakland     225 1923  
  Northern Light     247 1927  
  Water Witch   Yacht 17 1928 Active
  Born Again Crowley Tug Boat Tug 47 1928 Active as a yacht
1158 Buccaneer   Yacht   1931  
  Marilyn J   Yacht 14 1934 Active
  Senta   Ferry 18 1937 Active

Built at Blandings Avenue in Oakland

  YMS 299 US Navy Minesweeper 278 7-Apr-43 Reclassified 1947 as Rhea (AMS 52), sold 1960, used for many years to train sea cadets in Port Stanley ON, scrapped 1997
  YMS 300 US Navy Minesweeper 278 3-Jul-43 Struck 1946
  YMS 301 US Navy Minesweeper 278 11-Sep-43 To the USSR 1945 as T-605, scrapped 1956
  YMS 302 US Navy Minesweeper 278 5-Nov-43 Struck 1948
  PCS 1421 US Navy Sub Chaser 278 Feb-44 Sold 1947
  PCS 1422 US Navy Sub Chaser 278 Apr-44 Sold 1947
  YT 254 US Navy Tug 260 24-Aug-44 Later Menatonon, struck 1960
  YT 255 US Navy Tug 260 30-Sep-44 Later Kennesaw, struck 1960
  Alert   Yacht 30 1949 Active
  Foxen   Yacht 14 1957 Active
  Spartan   Yacht 10 1960 Active
  Rowena   Yacht 18 1963 Active
  Dina Maria   Yacht 15 1970 Active