Dickie Bros.

San Francisco CA

Most recent update: May 10, 2016.

Dickie Bros. was founded by John W. and James S. Dickie, immigrant shipbuilders from Dundee, in 1871. It failed in 1883 after a dispute with the Mexican government but John W. started again three years later in Alameda: this yard closed in 1907. The San Francisco yard was at Pier 70 in the Potrero, part of BAE San Francisco: the Alameda yard was in the Inner Harbor, across from Jack London Square, where United Engineering, Bethlehem Alameda and Todd Alameda used to be. The table below is clearly incomplete.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT Built Notes
Built by Dickie Bros. In San Francisco
130056 Newport Alaska Pacific Nav Co freighter 331 1875 scrapped 1917
Alexander Duncan Pacific Coast S.S. Co freighter 372 1876 converted to a barge 1902
105613 Arcata Falk, Chandler & Co freighter 400 1876 deleted 1918
Likelike Wilder's S.S. Co freighter 674 1877 wrecked off Upolu Point 1897
100712 Iwalani T. R. Foster & others passenger freighter 588 1881 converted to barge 1920
Bonita Pacific Coast S.S. Co freighter 521 1881 scrapped 1930
Oliver Wolcott U.S. Revenue Service cutter
Crescent City passenger freighter
Mexico passenger freighter 1,797 1882 wrecked off Sitka 1897
Orca whale catcher 628 1882 crushed in ice off Sea Horse Is 1897
130259 Narwhal whale catcher 524 1883 hulked 1915
Balaena whale catcher 524 1883 wrecked St Lawrence Is, Bering Sea 1901
Govt. of Mexico gunboat 1883
Built by J. W. Dickie & Son in Alameda
Grampus whale catcher 326 1886 crushed in ice off N Cape Smythe, 1901
157295 Del Norte Hobbs, Wall & Co passenger 450 1890 wrecked off Point Arena 1917
116635 Sausalito North Shore RR Co ferry 1,766 1894 abandoned 1934
107622 Acme Beadle Bros freighter 416 1901 wrecked off Whisky Rock 1924
86581 Gualala freighter 225 1901
111391 Redwood City freighter 258 1901 later Unimak
127718 Centralia T. Pollard freighter 487 1902 deleted 1951
Ramona Pacific Coast Co freighter 1,061 1902 wrecked off Spanish Is 1911
111419 Ruby schooner 395 1902
127756 Cazadero Northwestern Pacific RR ferry 1,682 1903 scrapped 1942
200206 San Jose SF, Oak. & San Jose RR ferry 1,115 1903
200207 Yerba Buena SF, Oak. & San Jose RR ferry 1,115 1903 Harry E. Spears 1924, Golden Coast 1927, hulked 1937
201544 Vanguard E. J. Dodge Co freighter 358 1904 Don Rafael 1943, capsized 1943
201830 San Francisco SF, Oak. & San Jose RR ferry 1,070 1905 Golden Dawn 1928, hulked 1938
203912 Claremont Key System Transit Co ferry 1,138 1907 Golden Way 1928, scrapped 1936
204736 Fernwood SF, Oak. & San Jose RR ferry 1,160 1907 Golden Era 1924, hulked 1938
Majestic I. J. Harmon freighter 810 1908 wrecked Pfeiffers Point, Cal., 1909
Doris E. T. Kruse freighter 725 1908 Onomea 1917, scrapped 1925
Willapa Sudden & Christenson freighter 779 1908 wrecked near Vivorilla Cays 1916

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