Yacht Builders Who Were Active in Wartime

In both world wars, many existing yacht builders made a significant contribution.  In WWI, these yards mostly switched their capacity to the construction of sub chasers, a type of boat that was obviously well suited to their capabilities.  In WWII, they built sub chasers again but they also built very large numbers of minesweepers, tugs and other small vessels, in both steel and wood.  The tables in this section are far from complete, some only documenting the yard's wartime output, and not always that much, because the wartime construction programs are themselves not well documented.  In addition, there is very little information on what happened to these boats at the end of the war.