Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation#Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company

{{Short description|American shipbuilding company (1939–1946)}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation

| image = Launch of USS Johnston (DD-557) at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, Washington (USA), on 25 March 1943 (NH 63496).jpg

| image_caption = Launch of {{USS|Johnston|DD-557}}, 1943.

| predecessor =

| parent = Todd Pacific Shipyards and Kaiser Shipbuilding

| industry = Shipbuilding

| foundation = 1939

| defunct = 1946

| fate =

| location = Tacoma, Washington United States

}}

The Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation (also operating as Todd Pacific) was an American corporation which built escort carriers, destroyers, cargo ships and auxiliaries for the United States Navy and merchant marine during World War II in two yards in Puget Sound, Washington. It was the largest producer of destroyers (45) on the West Coast and the largest producer of escort carriers of various classes (56) of any United States yard active during World War II.

History

The Todd Corporation, just having established itself in New York, acquired the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company (a.k.a. The Moran Brothers Shipyard of Klondike Gold Rush fame) in Seattle Harbor during World War I some time in 1916. The yard was acquired in 1918 by Skinner & Eddy, which had quickly risen to become a major force in Northwest Pacific shipbuilding. Todd moved his Seattle operation to nearby Harbor Island where a repair facility was constructed. In 1917 the company also set foot in Tacoma, where the first work on facilities of an entirely new yard was underway in January 1917{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1417paci/page/n47/mode/1up|title=Shipbuilding Notes - Tacoma|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=January 1917|page=82}} and the first ship, the Tacoma,{{cite web | url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/173141.htm | title=Chebaulip (ID 3141) | access-date=November 1, 2022 | archive-date=November 1, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101144355/http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/173141.htm | url-status=live }} was launched on March 28, 1918.{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1518paci/page/n561/mode/1up|title=Tacoma's Place in Steel Shipbuilding|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=July 1918|page=108}}

3 of 10 {{sclass|Omaha|cruiser|0}} light cruisers and 23 cargo ships of 7,500dwt were built in the Tacoma yard (including {{SS|Jacona|1918|2}}, which survived till at least 1971), the {{sclass|Caldwell|destroyer}} {{USS|Gwin|DD-71}} and the N-class submarines {{USS|N-1|SS-53|2}}, {{USS|N-2|SS-54|2}} and {{USS|N-3|SS-55|2}} as well as 14 cargo ships of mostly 7,500dwt also were built in Seattle.

In addition to the government contracts, the Tacoma yard built 2 cargo ships (named Red Hook and Hoboken after 2 of Todd's New York Harbor locations), 1 diesel freighter, 2 passenger ships and 6 barges. The Red Hook found its way into Imperial Japanese Army service as Naruo Maru{{cite web | url=http://www.combinedfleet.com/Naruo_c.htm | title=IJA Naruo Maru Class Transport }}{{cite web | title=ESTERO CARGO SHIP 1941-1944 | website=WRECKSITE | url=https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?232067 }} and was sunk in 1944.

Shipbuilding ceased in the Seattle yard in 1920 and in the Tacoma yard in 1924. William H. Todd died May 15, 1932. John D. Reilly became president of Todd Shipyards.

In 1939, the old Tacoma shipyard in Commencement Bay was revived (from scratch{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev3639paci/page/n561/mode/1up|title=(picture without article)|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=October 1939|page=74}}) by Todd and Kaiser Shipbuilding, initially with two slipways,{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev3639paci/page/n637/mode/1up|title=Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard Under Way|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=December 1939|page=32}} with the aid of some $15 million in capital provided by the U.S. Government this was eventually increased to eight.

{{blockquote|Todd Affiliates to build C-1's at Tacoma Yard

TODD Shipyards Corporation announces the

award of five C- 1 Type B Diesel propelled vessels

to the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, of

Seattle, Washington, at a price of $2,127,000 each.

Associated with them is the General Construction Co.

of Seattle and its affiliates. R. J. Lamont, president of

the Todd Seattle Dry Docks Inc., of Seattle, is also president of this company; J. A. McEachern, of the

General Construction Co., being vice-president.

This marks the culmination of negotiations with the Maritime Commission to bring a restoration of the shipbuilding industry to the Pacific Northwest. The cooperation of Seattle and Tacoma labor was an important factor in securing the award. The plan involves the rehabilitation of the Todd Tacoma plant for the construction of the hulls, the completion and outfitting of the vessels to be performed at the plant of the Todd Seattle Dry Docks Inc., in Seattle.{{cite book | author=American Society of Marine Engineers | title=The Log | publisher=Miller Freeman Publications | issue=v. 34-35 | year=1939 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIAPAAAAIAAJ }}}}

Following the enactment of the Two-Ocean Navy Act, Seattle-Tacoma was awarded contracts to build 25 destroyers.{{cite web | url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/shipbuilding-contracts/index-to-vol-23.html | title=Index to Vol. 23 | access-date=June 10, 2022 | archive-date=June 10, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610073603/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/shipbuilding-contracts/index-to-vol-23.html | url-status=live }} The government invested $9 million in a new destroyer construction facility on Harbor Island which was then built starting October 15, 1940Pacific Marine Review, February 1941, p. 55 (includes photograph of the yard on December 31) 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{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxUoAAAAMAAJ|title=Investigation of Shipyard Profits|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|author=United States Congress, House, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries|date=1946|pages=421–423|access-date=March 22, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404014054/https://books.google.com/books?id=DxUoAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}} and on June 1, 1944 the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation was renamed to Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc.. Todd sold the Tacoma shipyard to the Navy after the war ended, which in turn sold the site to the Port of Tacoma in 1959. Today the site is set for redevelopment as part of the Port's Commencement Bay Industrial Development District.

Robert Moran, great-granduncle of the company, died in 1943.

The "Plant A" destroyer facility produced a single civilian ship, the luxury ferry Chinook, launched in 1947,{{cite book | author=American Society of Marine Engineers | title=The Log | publisher=Miller Freeman Publications | issue=v. 42 | date= July 1947 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QncPAAAAIAAJ }} but by 1952 oil terminals had been established in the spot.{{cite book | author=United States. Maritime Administration | title=The Port of Seattle, Washington | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | series=Port series | year=1953 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TWHcl9YahsC&pg=PA56 |page=56}}

The original repair yard continued to be part of the Todd Corporation, now building new civilian and military ships and it remains active to this day as a facility of Vigor Shipyards.

Ships built

= Tacoma yard =

File:Todd Tacoma in 1945 (BA 342864).jpg

in Commencement Bay ({{coord|47.27949|-122.40705|dim:1000|name=Todd Tacoma Shipyard}})

Escort carriers (56)

Auxiliaries (14)

  • 2 of 2 {{sclass|Frederick Funston|attack transport}}s (C3-S1-A3)
  • {{USS|Frederick Funston|APA-89|3}}, {{USS|James O'Hara|APA-90|3}}
  • ordered October 23, 1940The Log, November 1940, p. 6
  • 4 of 4 {{sclass|Kenneth Whiting|seaplane tender}}s (C3 Mod.)
  • {{USS|Kenneth Whiting|AV-14|3}} ... {{USS|Cumberland Sound|AV-17|3}}
  • 5 of 23 {{sclass|Patapsco|gasoline tanker}}s (T1-MT-M1)
  • {{USS|Patapsco|AOG-1|3}} ... {{USS|Susquehanna|AOG-5|3}}
  • 3 of 6 {{sclass|Shenandoah|destroyer tender}}s
  • {{USS|Shenandoah|AD-26|3}}, {{USS|Yellowstone|AD-27|3}}, {{USS|Grand Canyon|AD-28|3}}

Cargo (5)

  • {{anchor|C1-B-details}} 5 of 95 C1-B (5 of 10 diesel variant C1-B)The Log Vol 35, No. 5, August 1940, p. 6The Log Vol. 36, No. 1, October 1940, p. 6The Log Vol. 36, No. 9, June 1941, p. 5The Log Vol. 36, No. 10, July 1941, p. 49
  • ordered: 10 September 1939{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev3639paci/page/n539/mode/1up|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=October 1939|page=52 |title=Pacific Coast Shipyards Begin to get Contracts}}
  • first keel laying on 5 March 1940{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev3740paci/page/n215/mode/1up|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=April 1940|page=48 |title=Keel Laid at Tacoma Shipyard}}
  • {{MS|Cape Alava||2}} (MC-119) launched August 1, 1940, delivered to American Mail Lines April 3, 1941
  • {{MS|Cape Flattery|1940|2}} (MC-120) launched September 28, 1940, delivered to American Mail lines May 29, 1941
  • Cape Cleare (MC-121) launched November 29, 1940, renamed {{MS|Oregon||2}}, delivered to Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Corporation, sunk 1941
  • {{MS|Cape Fairweather||2}} (MC-122) launched April 11, 1941
  • Cape Douglas (MC-123) launched June 10, 1941, renamed {{MS|Idaho||2}} delivered to Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Corporation
  • 2 Hooven-Owens-Rentschler 6-cylinder diesel engines with magnetic coupling and single reduction gears (2.55:1){{cite web|title=Cape Alava (1941) - Lloyds Register of Ships|url=https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404470|access-date=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121131423/https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404470|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Cape Fairweather (1941) - Lloyds Register of Ships|url=https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404499|access-date=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121131420/https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404499|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Cape Flattery (1941) - Lloyds Register of Ships|url=https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404503|access-date=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121131421/https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404503|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Oregon (1941) - Lloyds Register of Ships|url=https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1404503}}{{cite web|title=Idaho (1941) - Lloyds Register of Ships|url=https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1410241|access-date=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121131425/https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1410241|url-status=live}}
  • 2 Washington Iron Works auxiliary diesels

Ships of World War II produced before 1924 (incomplete)

Description of the plant as of January 1940: {{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev3740paci/page/n29/mode/1up|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=January 1940|page=54 |title=A Renewal of Shipbuilding}}

Photograph of the plant in the initial 2-ways stage (launch of the Cape Alava): {{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev3841paci/page/n31/mode/1up|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=January 1941|page=62 |title=Shipbuilding on Puget Sound}}

= Seattle yard =

File:Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding-destroyer plant harbor island 1945 01.jpg

on Harbor Island ({{coord|47.58903|-122.3481|dim:1000}}) in 2 separate facilities at the north end of the island. In 1918 Todd moved out of the seattle waterfront and opened a repair facility on the northwestern corner. In 1940 additional slipways were added on the northeastern end.{{cite web | url=https://www.shipscribe.com/cochrane/shipyards/13th-ND.htm | title=Thirteenth Naval District (Cochrane Collection) | access-date=July 12, 2022 | archive-date=August 2, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802054502/https://shipscribe.com/cochrane/shipyards/13th-ND.htm | url-status=live }} The expansion had all 5 building ways upon initial completion (2 destroyers each).Pacific Marine Review, February 1941, p. 55 In June 1945, 5 destroyers were building, the unfinished {{USS|Seaman|DD-791|3}} was about to be laid down and 2 destroyer tenders ({{USS|Isle Royale|AD-29|3}} and {{USS|Great Lakes|AD-30|3}} - eventually aborted) were using up 1 full slipway each.

Although the Seattle yard produced the largest number of destroyers on the West Coast, Union Iron Works was slightly more productive overall with 4 {{sclass|Atlanta|cruiser|5}}s, 9 {{sclass|Benson|destroyer|5}}s, 18 Fletchers, 6 Sumners, 3 Gearings and 12 {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort|5}}s.

File:Map of WW2 Shipyards building DD.jpg

Contracts awarded

  • NOD1502 7/40 destroyers $29,406,000 (= 5 Gleaves)
  • NOD1511 9/40 destroyers $109,726,000 (= 15 Fletcher)
  • NOD1502S 12/40 destroyers $29,406,000 (= 5 Gleaves)
  • NOD1760 3/41 gasoline tankers aog $10,700,000 (= 5 Patapsco, built in Tacoma)
  • OBS315 8/42 destroyers $40,799,000 (= 6 Fletcher)
  • OBS329 8/42 destroyers $107,535,000 (= 15 Sumner)
  • OBS10215 8/44 ship repairs $2,081,000
  • total: $329,653,000

45 of 415 destroyers

  • 10 of 66 {{sclass|Gleaves|destroyer|0}}
  • (May 1, 1941 - September 7, 1942)
  • {{USS|Carmick|DD-493|3}} ... {{USS|Frankford|DD-497}}
  • {{USS|Baldwin|DD-624|3}} ... {{USS|Welles|DD-628}}
  • 21 of 175 {{sclass|Fletcher|destroyer|0}}
  • (March 8, 1942 - June 6, 1944)
  • {{USS|Franks|DD-554|3}} ... {{USS|Wren|DD-568|3}}
  • {{USS|Jarvis|DD-799|3}} ... {{USS|Rooks|DD-804|3}}
  • 5 of 58 {{sclass|Allen M. Sumner|destroyer|0}} (as Todd Pacific according to some sources)Friedman, US destroyers, p. 449
  • {{USS|Zellars|DD-777}} ... {{USS|Robert K. Huntington|DD-781|3}}
  • 9 of 98 {{sclass|Gearing|destroyer|0}} (as Todd Pacific according to some sources)Friedman, US destroyers, p. 450
  • {{USS|Rowan|DD-782|3}} ... {{USS|Shelton|DD-790}}
  • 1 additional, {{USS|Seaman|DD-791}}, was launched incomplete and never commissioned

1 of 6 {{sclass|Shenandoah|destroyer tender}}s

  • {{USS|Isle Royale|AD-29|3}}
  • {{USS|Great Lakes|AD-30|3}} - canceled incomplete

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For the first 30 ships the allocation based on keel laid and launch dates can only be

  • Slip A: {{font color|blue|Carmick}}, {{font color|purple|Franks, Rowe}}
  • Slip B: {{font color|blue|Doyle}}, {{font color|purple|Haggard, Smalley}}
  • Slip C: {{font color|blue|Endicott}}, {{font color|purple|Hailey, Stoddard}}
  • Slip D: {{font color|blue|McCook}}, {{font color|purple|Johnston, Watts}}
  • Slip E: {{font color|blue|Frankfort}}, {{font color|purple|Laws, Wren}}
  • Slip F: {{font color|blue|Baldwin}}, {{font color|purple|Longshaw, Jarvis}}
  • Slip G: {{font color|blue|Harding}}, {{font color|purple|Morrison, Porter}}
  • Slip H: {{font color|blue|Satterlee}}, {{font color|purple|Pritchett, Calhoun}}
  • Slip I: {{font color|blue|Thompson}}, {{font color|purple|Robinson, Gregory}}
  • Slip J: {{font color|blue|Welles}}, {{font color|purple|Ross, Little}}

None of the 10 Gearings could have occupied the slip where Isle Royale was built.

None of the 5 Sumners or Rooks could have been built at G, H, I, J.

Rowan must have been built on G.

At least 2 Gearings must have been built following a Gearing and no 3 Gearings could have been built on the same slip.

Assuming a slip was not left unoccupied for 82 days only to build another destroyer, no more destroyers were built on H. The same is true for I (54 days gap) and J (40 days gap). Even then Gurke must have followed Rooks with a 25-day gap and the purely analytical approach can't account for that. Ship repairs may be responsible and could cause any length of gap.

What is certain is that destroyer production slowed down in 1944. In the Union Iron Works yard, no new keels were laid after April 1944 and slipways apparently went unused by September 1944.

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= Todd Dry Dock, Inc. =

File:Todd Seattle Drydock, Harbor Island in 1945 (BA 342855).jpg

TODO: this facility was very active in the interwar period, including some big conversion jobs.

WW2 conversions of ... (incomplete)

  • {{USS|Harris|AP-8|3}}, {{USS|Zeilin|AP-9|3}}
  • see also Two-Ocean Navy Act#AUX ANV
  • {{USS|Kane|APD-18|3}}
  • {{USS|Grumium|AK-112|3}}
  • {{USNS|Sgt. Charles E. Mower|T-AP-186}}
  • SS Cape Cleare to troop transport (1943) (a different Cape Cleare from the one launched in Tacoma in 1940)

TODO: this yard became one of two big cold war era shipyards in Seattle, the other being Lockheed.

= Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company =

Of the 6 steel shipyards building for the Shipping Board in Puget Sound, Todd Construction was the only one not located in Elliott Bay. This yard was located in the same rectangular area on the Hylebos Waterway as the World War II era yard and it also had 8 slipways.

Description of the plant including a map: {{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAw0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA921|title=Todd Corporation's Model Shipyard at Tacoma|magazine=Marine Engineering|volume=26|date=December 1921|page=921|access-date=March 19, 2023|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910035037/https://books.google.com/books?id=GAw0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA921#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}

Historical trivia: Five ships (listed below) built in the yard where acquired from the USSB in the early 30s by Swayne & Hoyt and given Point names, In addition, Point Ancha (ex-Delight), Point Bonita (ex-Sacramento), which were built in Seattle. The Red Hook and Hoboken were never USSB property though. TODO: Show how this naming scheme started in Portland by Albina Engine & Machine Works, from where Swayne & Hoyt picked it up.

The Kennecott was somewhat unusual for its time and one of only 7 diesel motor ships of more than 1,000 tons built in the United States in 1921 and one of 82 built or newly converted worldwide.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NU2yYe8vMQsC&pg=PA47|title=Conversion of Ships Into Motor Types|date=1924|author=Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries,68th congress|access-date=March 19, 2023|archive-date=June 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617095344/https://books.google.com/books?id=NU2yYe8vMQsC&pg=PA47|url-status=live}}

In 1920 the yard took part in a program to convert Japan-built ships to oil burners on USSB account: {{SS|Eastern Guide}}, {{SS|Eastern Gale}}, {{SS|Eastern Victor}}, {{SS|Eastern Admiral}}, {{SS|Eastern Tempest}}, {{SS|Eastern Importer}} for a total of $384,352.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NxPAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA46-PA9|title=Nearly 1,750,000 is spent on Japanese ships in Seattle|magazine=Weekly Commercial News|volume=61|number=19|date=6 November 1920|page=9}}

class=wikitable
+ Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company, Tacoma
Yard#USSB#NameTypeLaunched{{efn|group=table1|See List of ship launches in 1918, 1919, and 1920 for references}}
1rowspan=7 | Req.{{efn|group=table1|

Six Building For the Shipping Controller / the Cunard Line:

  • War Artist -> Tacoma
  • War Herald -> Bellingham
  • War Bard -> Yukon
  • War Comrade -> Anacortes
  • War Guide -> Puget Sound
  • War Regent -> Cascade

One building for the Barber Steamship Lines: Masuda.

All contracts were inherited from the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company

}}

Tacomarowspan=7 | 7,500dwt cargo28 Mar 18
2Anacortes4 Jul 18
3Masuda23 May 18
4Puget Sound19 Jul 18
5{{USS|Bellingham|ID-3552|2}}28 Sep 18
6Yukon26 Oct 18
7Cascade21 Dec 18
82629Olenrowspan=19 | 7,500dwt cargo25 Jun 19
92630{{SS|Ophis2}}30 Jul 19
102631Orcus19 Jul 19
112632St. Anthony10 Sep 19
122633Ossa
132634Otho
142635Padnsay
152636Pallas
Point Clear
162637Pansa
172638{{SS|Rotarian2}}
182639Parmarowspan=2 | cancelled
192640Patmos
2641 - 2652cancelled
20105{{efn|group=table1|USSB contract No. 13 inherited from the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company, minus 4 ships (107, 108, 109, 110) built there. USSB hull numbers by coincidence are very similar to alternative yard numbers from the Seattle DD scheme, not shown here.}}Ossining{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1619paci/page/n656/mode/1up|title=Tacoma|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=June 1919|page=157}}
Point Lobos
6 May 19
21106Higho{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1619paci/page/n1203/mode/1up|title=Tacoma|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=November 1919|page=102}}27 Sep 19
26111{{SS|Jacona|1918|2}}{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1619paci/page/n56/mode/1up|title=Tacoma News Notes|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=January 1919|page=119}}30 Nov 18
27112Remus
Point Judith
16 Apr 19
28113Zarembo4 Jun 19
29114Quittacas4 Jan 19
Yard#OwnerNameTypeLaunched
30rowspan=3 | Navy{{USS|Omaha|CL-4|2}}rowspan=3 | {{sclass|Omaha|cruiser}}14 Dec 20
31{{USS|Milwaukee|CL-5|2}}
32{{USS|Cincinnati|CL-6|2}}
33rowspan=2 | ToddRed Hook
Point Estero
34Hoboken
Point Vincente
35rowspan=2 | Alaska SS Co.{{MS|Kennecott}}{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1821paci/page/n398/mode/1up|title=The Kennecott - An American Motor Freighter|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=May 1921|pages=275–276}}6,500dwt cargo6 Jan 21{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev1821paci/page/n173/mode/1up|title=In West Coast Yards|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=February 1921|page=112}}
36{{SS|Alaska|1923|2}}P&C19 Apr 23{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev2023paci/page/n389/mode/1up|title=American Shipbuilding|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=June 1923|page=304}}
43Southern Pacific Co.{{SS|Bienville2}}445ft. passenger2 Jul 24{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev2124paci/page/n531/mode/1up|title=Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing|magazine=Pacific Marine Review|date=August 1924|page=440}}

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Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tacoma

After the war the United States Navy took over the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding shipyard and for use as part of the United States Navy reserve fleets, also called a mothball fleet. The Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tacoma was used to store the now many surplus ships after World War II. Some ships in the Commencement Bay Reserve Fleet were reactivated for the Korean War. The Navy sold the shipyard to the Port of Tacoma in 1959. The ships stored at Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tacoma were either scrapped or moved to other reserve fleets.{{Cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/toddtacoma.htm |title=shipbuildinghistory.com Todd Tacoma |access-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-date=December 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203224354/http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/toddtacoma.htm |url-status=live }}

  • Example ships:
  • USS Lunga Point was placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tacoma in 1946 and removed in June 1955 and recommissioned as CVU-94.
  • USS Kwajalein was placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tacoma in 1946 and removed in June 1955 and recommissioned as CVU-98 a utility aircraft carrier.
  • USS Tinian (CVE-123) a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier, was stored at Reserve Fleet, Tacoma, being completed in 1946, too late for World War II. On June 12, 1955, the ship was reclassified as an escort helicopter aircraft carrier and re-designated CVHE-123.

Shipbuilding in Puget Sound

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See also

References

{{Reflist}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071115005436/http://www.coltoncompany.com/shipbldg/ussbldrs/wwii/navalshipbuilders/toddtacoma.htm Todd Pacific Shipyards Incorporated Tacoma WA WWII construction record].
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110617012513/https://destroyerhistory.org/destroyers/seattle-tacoma.html Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation], from the Destroyer History website.
  • [http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/toddtacoma.htm Ships built at Todd Dry Dock, Seattle-Tacoma, and Todd Pacific at ShipbuildingHistory.com]
  • https://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/toddseattle.htm
  • {{cite book | last = Friedman | first = Norman | author-link = Norman Friedman | title = US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 1982}}

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Category:Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States

Category:Shipbuilding in Washington (state)

Category:Defunct companies based in Tacoma, Washington

Category:1946 disestablishments

Category:Former joint ventures

Category:Shipyards building World War II warships