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At its peak, it was the largest employer in Tampa, employing 16,000 people. Tampa Shipbuilding closed after the war in 1947, and few traces remain of its facilities. [3] 9 of 72 Cannon-class destroyer escorts. Cates (DE-763)... Sutton (DE-771) plus 3 launched, cancelled and scrapped (772, 773, 774) 24 of 123 Admirable-class minesweeper
During World War II, there was a high demand for ships thus, McCloskey & Company opened a shipyard at Hookers Point in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Port Authority leased the land to McCloskey & Company. With steel in short supply due to the war, McCloskey & Company built 24 self-propelled concrete ships under a Maritime Commission war contract ...
Jean Street Shipyard (established 1843) is a shipyard in the United States, located on the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida. It is located approximately 5 miles from the mouth of the Hillsborough River , about 1 mile above the Hillsborough Avenue bridge in what is now the neighborhood of Seminole Heights .
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The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers was founded on September 1, 1893. On that day, at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, representatives from the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, which had been organized on October 1, 1880, and the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, which had been formed in ...
Founded in 1948, Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) is based in Tampa, Florida, United States. [2] [3] It has offices in Tampa, Florida and Newark, Delaware, [4] with nearly 900 sea and shore-based employees. [5] In 1969, under the leadership of Raphael Recanati, OSG began acquiring tanker ships to transport oil from Alaska to the lower 48 U.S ...
Port Tampa Bay, known as the Port of Tampa until January 2014, [4] is the largest port in the state of Florida and is overseen by the Tampa Port Authority, a Hillsborough County agency. The port is located in Tampa, Florida near downtown Tampa 's Channel District .
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