WWII Construction of U.S. Coast Guard Vessels


Only 329 Coast Guard vessels were built new during WWII, in only 17 shipyards: most of the ships and boats in the Coast Guard's very large fleet were either built for the Navy, the Army or the Maritime Commission and transferred to the Coast Guard or converted from fishing vessels, yachts and other private-sector vessels.  Click on the column heading to go to the individual tables.

Shipbuilder Location Ice Breakers (WAGB) Gunboats (WPG) Tenders (WLB, WLM, WLI, WLR) Tugs (WYT) Patrol Craft (WPC)
Avondale Marine Ways Westwego LA     1    
Birchfield Boiler Tacoma WA     1    
Bushey & Sons, Ira S. Brooklyn NY       7  
Defoe Boat & Motor Works Bay City MI       2  
Dubuque Boat & Boiler Dubuque IA     12    
General Ship East Boston MA     1    
Gulfport Boiler Works Port Arthur TX       2  
JeffBoat Jeffersonville IN     1    
Moore Dry Dock Oakland CA     2    
Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Duluth MN     22    
Mathis, John H. Camden NJ     3    
Peterson Haecker Blair NB     5    
Toledo Shipbuilding Toledo OH 1   1    
U.S. Coast Guard Yard Baltimore MD   2 1 2  
Western Pipe & Steel San Pedro CA 5 11      
Wheeler Shipbuilding Brooklyn NY         230
Zenith Dredge Duluth MN     17    
Totals   6 13 67 13 230