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This is the same location as the Seattle Dock Company's Re-plat and Skinner & Eddy's shipbuilding plant No. 2. [167] Pacific Steamship's building (BLDG 1) was "a very modern passenger and freight terminal" when it was built in 1925, [146] and remains the hub of this facility nearly a century later. [202]
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]
The government invested $9 million in a new destroyer construction facility on Harbor Island which was then built starting October 15, 1940 [10] next to the existing repair dock founded in 1918. In February 1942 Todd bought out Kaiser's holding and sold the companies own interests in Permanente Metals [ 11 ] and on June 1, 1944 the Seattle ...
Merritt-Chapman & Scott, nicknamed "The Black Horse of the Sea", was a noted marine salvage and construction firm of the United States, with worldwide operations. The chief predecessor company was founded in the 1860s by Israel Merritt, but a large number of other firms were merged in over the course of the company's history.
USS Wadsworth (FFG-9) under construction in San Pedro, c.1979. On 1 October 1977, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation. Todd's Seattle and Los Angeles divisions were spun off into Todd Pacific Shipyards. Eighteen Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates were built at the San Pedro ...
The town plans to build a new dock and shrimp processing facility but the old vessels have been in the way. Last of broken down boats leaving old Port Royal dock. Now new construction can begin
In September 2016, the company announced that it was preparing to shut down its barge-building business permanently and discontinue use of its 33-acre (13 ha) South Waterfront property in 2017. [1] Zidell Marine launched its final barge on June 16, 2017. [2] [3] Subsequent removal of equipment from the site was expected to take several months ...
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