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Of the hundreds of U.S. and Canadian shipbuilders, the ones described in this column were selected for being particularly interesting.  Click on the chapter title in the table below to go to the appropriate page of Marine Log.
Column # Issue Region

Subject

Four Major Long-Lived Shipbuilders
1 Oct-08 Atlantic Bethlehem Steel, Quincy MA
2 Dec-08 Pacific Moore Dry Dock, Oakland CA
3 Mar-09 Inland Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI
4 Jun-09 Gulf Beaumont Shipbuilding, Beaumont TX

Four Smaller Shipbuilders
5 Aug-09 Atlantic Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
6 Oct-09 Pacific Albina Machine & Engine Works, Portland OR
7 Dec-09 Inland American Steel Barge Company, Superior WI
8 Feb-10 Gulf Chickasaw Shipbuilding & Car Company, Chickasaw AL

Four More Large Shipbuilders
9 Apr-10 Atlantic Staten Island Shipbuilding, Staten Island NY
10 Jun-10 Pacific Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco and San Pedro CA
11 Aug-10 Inland Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit MI
12 Oct-10 Gulf Brown Shipbuilding and Todd Houston Shipbuilding, Houston TX

Four Yacht Builders
13 Dec-10 Atlantic Yacht Builders on City Island NY
14 Feb-11 Pacific Stephens Bros., Stockton CA
15 Apr-11 Inland Henry C. Grebe & Sons, Chicago IL
16 Jun-11 Atlantic Annapolis Yacht Yard, Annapolis MD

Four Canadian Shipbuilders
17 Aug-11 Pacific Burrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver BC
18 Oct-11 Inland Russel Bros., Owen Sound ON
19 Dec-11 Quebec Canadian Vickers, Montreal QC
20 Feb-12 Atlantic Ferguson Industries (Pictou NS) and Shelburne Shipbuilders (Shelburne NS)

Four More Large Shipbuilders (Provisional Selections)
21 Apr-12 Atlantic Merchant Shipbuilding, Chester PA
22 Jun-12 Pacific Puget Sound Bridge, Seattle WA
23 Aug-12 Inland American Ship Building, Toledo OH
24 Oct-12 Gulf Levingston Shipbuilding, Orange TX