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Ships built by Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (12 P) Pages in category "Companies based in Everett, Washington" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company was established in 1942 to build ships needed for World War II.Yard construction began on 1 March 1942. [1] As part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program, the US Navy provided some of the capital to start Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding at Port Gardner Bay in Everett, Washington.
By 1900, they had controlled and merged eight small rail lines in Seattle; soon after, they also took over the street railway systems of Tacoma and Everett. By 1908, Stone & Webster listed thirty-one railway and lighting companies under its management including five located in Washington State: the Puget Sound Electric Railway, Puget Sound ...
The Boeing Company opened its first Everett factory in 1943 as part of its wartime production for the B-17 program. The company moved to the Everett–Pacific Shipyard in 1956 and grew to be the city's largest single employer by 1965, with 1,728 employees. [90]
Everett 167 50.9 1945 D City of Denver: 127233 stern psgr 1898 Seattle 116 35.4 279 170 1901 O City of Everett: 127044 prop psgr 1900 Everett 134 40.8 212 111 R [R 24] City of Kingston: 126214 prop psgr 1884 New York 246 75.0 816 1899 W City of Lalona: 126686 prop 1890 Seattle 48 14.6 19 12 1894 O City of Latona: 126686 stern tug 1891 Lake ...
Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation when properties of the Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey were bought in 1916 by a syndicate headed by Bertron Griscom & Company of New York and placed under management of William H. Todd, president of the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York. [6]
By the 1870s Ernest had moved to the USA and was the superintendent of the Pacific Stone Company in San Francisco. In 1884 after experimenting with reinforced concrete sidewalks, he patented ( U.S. patent 305,226 ) a system of ferro-concrete with the iron rods twisted to improve the bond, then developed a patented Ransome system for practical ...
The Port of Everett was established on July 13, 1918, via a referendum of Everett citizens. The port was formed in hopes of luring a naval shipyard amid a maritime boom caused by World War I, which would end a few months later. [4] The new port instead became a major lumber trader in the 1920s, owing to the dominant industry in Everett at the time.