Kneass Boat Works

The United States Government awarded Webster Lincoln Kneass a certificate of Outstanding Service to the Country for both its WWI and WWII efforts in 1945. Kneass Boat Works built over 5000 watercrafts for World War 1 and World War 2. Many of the watercraft were lifeboats and patrol boats. but some 150-foot minesweepers were also built. The U.S. Navy still uses a lifeboat that was designed by George Kneass.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tahoeclassicyacht.org/GW_Kneass_Boatyard.html |title=History of the Kneass boatworks tahoeclassicyacht.org |access-date=2021-02-13 |archive-date=2015-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418173420/http://tahoeclassicyacht.org/GW_Kneass_Boatyard.html |url-status=dead }}

Kneass Boat Works built submarine chasers that were of the {{sclass|SC-497|submarine chaser|1}} design that had a displacement of 94 tons with a length of {{convert|110|ft}}, a beam of {{convert|17|ft}}, a draft of {{convert|6|ft}}, a top speed of {{convert|21|kn|lk=in}}. They had a crew of 28. Power was provided by two {{convert|1,540|bhp|adj=on|lk=on}} General Motors, Electro-Motive Division, 16-184A diesel engines, and two propellers. They were armed with one Bofors 40 mm gun, two [[M2 Browning|Browning M2 .50 cal.

machine guns]], two depth charge projector "Y guns", and two depth charge tracks.[http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/150723.htm navsource.org Submarine Chaser, SC-723]{{citation|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/15idx.htm|title=Submarine Chaser (SC) Index|access-date=21 March 2009}}{{citation|url=http://www.splinterfleet.org/sfhome.php|title=Splinter Fleet|access-date=16 January 2019}}

Notable ships include:

• {{USC&GS|Taku}} an 1898 70-foot survey ship.
• Three Adjutant-class minesweepers.
• Quic Chakidn 1921 38-foot cruisers built for owner of Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company, Walter Hobert Jr. for his Lake Tahoe home.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tahoeclassicyacht.org/Quic_Chakidn.php|title=Quic Chakidn|website=www.tahoeclassicyacht.org|access-date=2021-02-13|archive-date=2016-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811120154/http://www.tahoeclassicyacht.org/Quic_Chakidn.php?|url-status=dead}}
• The Pacific an 18-foot Kneass schooner was sailed in 1882 by Bernard Gilboy from San Francisco {{convert|7000|mi|km|0}} across the Pacific to Queensland, Australia.{{cite book|author=Charles A. Borden|title=Sea Quest|publisher=Robert Hale, London|year=1967}}{{cite book|title=A Voyage of Pleasure: The Log of Bernard Gilboy's Transpacific Cruise in the Boat "Pacific" 1882-1883|last1= Gilboy|first1=Bernard|editor-last= Tompkins|editor-first=John Barr|publisher=Cornell Maritime Press|year=1956}}[https://archive.org/stream/voyageofpleas00gilb/voyageofpleas00gilb_djvu.txt A Voyage of Pleasure, the Log of Bernard Gilboy’s Transpacific Cruise in the Boat “Pacific 1 ’ 1882-1883, page 5, 16, 63]
• Amy K IV 32-foot 1940 Yacht, was owned by the Terazas family.
• Merciqme Yacht was owned by Judy and Avery Blake, commodore of the Northern California Classic Yacht Association.
• Siren 34-foot 1939 Yacht, owned by Alan Bowerman.
• Marlin 46-foot 1928 Yacht, owned by Thomas Bottenberg of Vintage Yacht Partners
• Two patrol boats for Peru Navy in 1918, the El Captain I and El Captain 2.MotorBoating, May 1918, Page 46
• M 857 Hr.Ms. Boxtel 1954 114-foot Royal Netherlands Navy Beemster Class minesweeper, scrapped in 1976Hr. Ms. Boxtel, M 857, Volume 3 of Historisch overzicht, ISSN 0924-0535, by Everhardus Maria Meijs, Publisher Heemkundige Studiekring voor Boxtel en Omstreken, 1984
• M 855 Hr.Ms. Breskens 1954 114-foot Royal Netherlands Navy Beemster Class minesweeper, renamed Kalbarrie then Pax
• USS Nasomee (YTB-260), US Navy Tugboat, Cahto-class district harbor tug.[http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/09260.htm navsource]

• California during World War II
• Maritime history of California
• Wooden boats of World War 2

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