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Consolidated Steel Orange Shipyard, Orange, Texas Defoe Shipbuilding Company , Bay City, Michigan (1905–1975) Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works , Chester, Pennsylvania
During World War II, the Sparrows Point Shipyard built ships as part of the U.S. government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program to help re-build the British Merchant Navy. Liberty ship production was a primary goal of the yard. [citation needed] The shipyard also constructed 21 Cimarron-class oilers from 1938 to 1946.
The shipyard, which built wooden ships, failed when demand for metal-hulled ships rose in the late 1850s. One of the former shipyard workers learned to make jewelry, and built a small factory on the shipyard site, which flourished until the 1920s. Neither the jewelry factory nor the shipyard structures have survived; the site now has a marker. [3]
Progress, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, is the largest such ship even built in the U.S. to comply with the Jones Act.
Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts (1913–1963 [5]). Sold to General Dynamics Corporation. Victory Plant Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts (1917–1919). The "Victory Yard" was constructed to build destroyers and free up the Fore River Yard for other vessels including the battlecruiser-turned-aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2).
Bay Shipbuilding Company (BSC) is a shipyard and dry dock company in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. As of 2015, Bay Ships was a subsidiary of Fincantieri Marine Group and produces articulated tug and barges, OPA-90 compliant double hull tank ships and offshore support vessels. [1] It also provides repair services to the lake freighter ...
Sustained fire damage in transit to Canada. Returning to service in 2014 after three years of work at Victoria Shipyard Co. Ltd. in Esquimalt. HMS Upright (N89) U class Royal Navy: 6 November 1939: 21 April 1940: Scrapped March 1946: HMS Urge (N17) U class Royal Navy: 30 October 1939: 19 August 1940: Sunk 29 April 1942: HMS Ursula / V-4: U class
Zidell Marine, in the South Waterfront district of Portland, Oregon. The Zidell Companies are a group of family-owned companies based in Portland, Oregon.They include Zidell Marine, a ship construction company which, from 1961 until 2017, specialized in the building of barges, and Tube Forgings of America Inc.