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Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington formerly Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company; Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California; Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock, Los Angeles, California; Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California; Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisconsin
Corsair Marine was founded in 1984 in Chula Vista, California, by John T. Walton (son of Sam Walton, founder of the retail corporation, Wal-Mart). The boat designer Ian Farrier was part of the management team. Farrier had patented a hull folding system in 1975, and designed and built the company's first product, the Corsair F-27. Farrier stayed ...
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In 1940 the company's ironworkers organized into a union. [14] By 1979 the company had 7,900 employees organized into six unions. There was a labor strike in 1988 in which employees demanded a minimum wage of $12 per hour. [15] A 25-day strike in 1992 resulted in workers returning to work without a contract. [16] In 1996, a further strike hit ...
This company became the Glasspar Company and moved to larger quarters from Industrial Way in Costa Mesa to Harbor Blvd in Costa Mesa, California, in 1950. By 1951, Glasspar moved again to larger quarters in Santa Ana, California. By the mid-1950s, Glasspar was producing 15 to 20 percent of all fiberglass boats sold in the U.S.
C&C also designed boats for manufacturers in the US, such as Newport series for Lindsey Plastics (later Capital Yachts) of Harbor City, California, [46] Harpoon for Boston Whaler, and Lancers for Lancer Yacht Corporation, in Irvine, California. [3] In England, Anstey Yachts built the Trapper 27, 28, and 35 (which was a C&C 35). C&C designed ...