Private-Sector Shipyards that Built Small Vessels in WWII

In addition to the large shipbuilders listed in the other parts of this section, almost all of whom built small vessels as filler work, hundreds of small ship and boat yards built thousands of small vessels of every conceivable type.  The table below lists over 300 yards that collectively built over 18,000 small vessels.

These tables cover US Navy patrol craft (PC, SC, PCE, PCS) - but not the small craft; torpedo boats (PT, BPT); crash boats (PTC, RPC); minesweepers (AM, AMc, YMS, BYMS); landing craft (LSM, LSM(R), LCT, LCI(L), LCS(L)) - but not the small ones (LCM, LCV, LCVP, LCP); ocean tugs (ATA, ATF, ATR); small auxiliaries (AN, ARS, ASR, APc); dry-docks (AFDB, AFDM, AFDL, ARD); and yard craft (YTB, YTM, YTL, YN, YF, YFB, YG, YO, YOG, YRD, YW); US Coast Guard vessels (WAGB, WPG, WPC, WLB, WLM, WLI, WLR, WYT); and US Army ships (F, FS, Y); tugs (LT, ST, MT, MTL); mine craft (MP, M, L); small craft (J, P, T and the rest); barges (BC, BD, BK, etc.); Corps of Engineers boats (generally unnumbered); and Defense Production Corporation boats (DPC).

The US Navy's small patrol craft, small landing craft, yard craft and dry-docks are not well documented and will be the subject of research for some time to come.

In addition, these tables do not include the many thousands of very small craft - made of wood, rubber and plastic - that were produced by manufacturers rather than by boatbuilders or steel fabricators: on this web site, a shipyard is a facility with a waterfront and some kind of launching system, not a factory with a loading dock out back.

To see the data by type of vessel, go to Small Vessels Built in WWII by Type.

DO NOT click on the name of the shipyard to go to its construction record: these links don't work.

Go to the Index of Shipyards instead.