Columbia River Shipbuilding
Portland OR
Most recent update: August 24, 2021.
Columbia River Shipbuilding was an emergency yard, organized in 1918 to build cargo ships for the USSB: it closed at the end of the war, after building 32 ships. Its owners were A. F. Smith and J. Frank Watson, owners of the Smith and Watson Iron Works, and it was managed by Charles D. Bowles, who was also associated with J. F. Duthie Shipbuilding, in Seattle. The shipyard was next door to Northwest Steel's shipyard, on the west bank of the Willamette River, on SW Moody Avenue at the foot of SW Woods Street, which is where the Ross Island Bridge is now. See the site from the air on Google here.
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USSB # | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | Delivered | Notes | |
1 | 215990 | War Sirdar/Westward Ho | USSB | freighter | 5,643 | Mar 1919 | later Izan Maru 1938, wrecked and abandoned 1939 | |
2 | 216076 | Santiam/Westbrook | USSB | freighter | 5,742 | Mar 1918 | later Wind Rush 1929, Kavkaz 1945, scrapped 1977 | |
3 | 216174 | War Agate/West Gate | USSB | freighter | 5,799 | May 1918 | collision and lost 1918 | |
4 | 1644 | 216310 | War Diamond/West Indian | USSB | freighter | 5,702 | May 1918 | scrapped 1938 |
5 | 216205 | War Bullet/West Grove | USSB | freighter | 5,688 | Apr 1918 | scrapped 1930 | |
6 | 1645 | 216372 | War Arrow/Western City | USSB | freighter | 5,828 | June 1918 | later Empire Turnstone 1942, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
7 | 1646 | 216704 | War Dagger/West Coast | USSB | freighter | 5,688 | July 1918 | scrapped 1930 |
8 | 1647 | 216976 | Nivelle/Western Plains | USSB | freighter | 5,688 | Oct 1918 | scrapped 1936 |
9 | 1648 | 216787 | War Spear/Western Pride | USSB | freighter | 5,688 | Aug 1918 | scrapped 1931 |
10 | 1649 | 217182 | Poincare/Western Belle | USSB | freighter | 5,688 | Nov 1918 | scrapped 1938 |
11 | 1081 | 217341 | West Cobalt | USSB | freighter | 6,179 | Dec 1918 | later Empire Miniver 1940, torpedoed and lost 1940 |
12 | 1082 | 217436 | West Wauneke | USSB | freighter | 5,765 | Jan 1919 | later Dorothy Cahill 1929, Pan-Atlantic 1938, De Soto 1938, Luga 1943, wrecked off Sakhalin 1948 |
13 | 1083 | 217533 | West Corum | USSB | freighter | 5,795 | Feb 1919 | later William H. Point 1941, scrapped 1947 |
14 | 1084 | 217617 | West Imboden | USSB | freighter | 6,179 | Mar 1919 | torpedoed and lost 1942 |
15 | 1085 | 217778 | West Munham | USSB | freighter | 6,167 | Apr 1919 | later Konzan Maru 1938, torpedoed and lost 1945 |
16 | 1086 | 217961 | West Totant | USSB | freighter | 6,167 | May 1919 | later Empire Moorhen 1941, sunk as breakwater at Normandy 1944 |
17 | 1087 | 218010 | West Quechee | USSB | freighter | 5,711 | May 1919 | later Empire Panther 1940, mined and lost 1943 |
18 | 1088 | 218292 | West Nosska | USSB | freighter | 5,563 | June 1919 | later Tazan Maru 1938, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
19 | 1693 | 217569 | West Harcuvar | USSB | freighter | 5,696 | Feb 1919 | later Anzan Maru 1938, torpedoed and lost 1944 |
20 | 1694 | 217708 | West Hardaway | USSB | freighter | 6,075 | Mar 1919 | torpedoed and lost 1942 |
21 | 1695 | 217935 | West Hargrave | USSB | freighter | 6,280 | Apr 1919 | scrapped 1933 |
22 | 1696 | 218143 | West Harlan | USSB | freighter | 6,267 | June 1919 | scrapped 1933 |
23 | 1697 | 218018 | West Harma/City of Eureka | USSB | freighter | 6,280 | May 1919 | later Explorer 1928, Timber Rush 1933, wrecked off Acapulco 1940 |
24 | 1698 | 218391 | West Harquahala/Mount Evans | USSB | freighter | 6,267 | July 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
25 | 1699 | 218532 | West Harshaw | USSB | freighter | 6,267 | July 1919 | later Empire Oryx 1940, Empire Robin 1941, Ferdinand Bol 1942, in collision and lost 1942 |
26 | 1700 | 218673 | West Harts | USSB | freighter | 6,167 | Aug 1919 | later Texas 1929, Kapitan Vislobokov 1945, Omsk 1952, scrapped 1959 |
27 | 1701 | 218750 | West Hartland | USSB | freighter | 6,167 | Aug 1919 | later Michigan 1928, torpedoed and lost 1943 |
28 | 1702 | 218877 | West Hartley | USSB | freighter | 5,757 | Sep 1919 | scrapped 1936 |
29 | 1703 | 218972 | West Hasson | USSB | freighter | 5,757 | Oct 1919 | later Siletz 1919, Vtoraya Pyatiletka 1943, scrapped 1967 |
30 | 1704 | 219421 | West Hassayampa | USSB | freighter | 5,757 | Jan 1920 | scrapped 1938 |
31 | 1705 | West Hastan | USSB | freighter | 5,600 | cancelled Apr-19, completed as Hull 33 | ||
32 | 1706 | West Haswell | USSB | freighter | 5,600 | cancelled Apr-19, completed as Hull 34 | ||
33 | 219269 | Corvus | Green Star Line | freighter | 5,748 | Nov 1919 | later Flomar 1930, Uzbekistan 1945, scrapped 1946 | |
34 | 219268 | Circinus | Green Star Line | freighter | 5,642 | Dec 1919 | later Vermar 1930, Kamanets-Podolsk 1942, Karaganda 1945, scrapped 1967 |