Babare Bros. Shipbuilding
Tacoma WA
Stephen Babare and his sons Nick and George were, like so many boatbuilders in the Pacific Northwest, from Croatia. They started their shipyard - originally called Babare Ship & Launch Builders - in the late 1890s and closed it in 1923. It was located next to Crawford & Reid, at the foot of N. Carr Street, in Old Town Tacoma, where the Silver Cloud Inn is today.
O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
211079 | Olympic | Lee Makovich | fishing boat | 23 | 44 | 1912 | foundered 1921 | |
211400 | Mermaid II | Lee Makovich | fishing boat | 21 | 42 | 1913 | ||
211863 | Welcome | John Hudson | fishing boat | 21 | 42 | 1913 | ||
212731 | Magdalene | American Packing | schooner | 41 | 56 | 1914 | ||
213088 | Providence | Lee Makovich | fishing boat | 22 | 43 | 1915 | ||
214421 | Else | Anderson & Co. | schooner | 814 | 185 | 1916 | abandoned 1928 | |
215029 | Arctic | Peter Bozanich | fishing boat | 32 | 53 | 1917 | ||
216763 | Mahaska (483) | USSB | freighter | 2,524 | 267 | 1919 | scrapped 1923 | |
217233 | Bottineau (1235) | USSB | freighter | 2,533 | 267 | 1919 | scrapped 1923 | |
Boughton (1236) | USSB | freighter | 1919 | |||||
Inukfa (2685) | USSB | freighter | 1920 | completed as barge | ||||
220234 | Favorite | Fintan Fisheries | fishing boat | 42 | 56 | 1920 | ||
222264 | Arro | Herbert A. Hoover | yacht | 23 | 43 | 1922 |