Pensacola Shipbuilding ~ Shipbuilding History

Pensacola Shipbuilding

Pensacola FL

Pensacola Shipbuilding Company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Ketler-Elliot Erection Company of Chicago, created for the war effort. It continued in peacetime and was an active boatbuilder in WWII under the ownership of C. W. Smith. The yard was located at the foot of Myrick Street, on the eastern shore of Bayou Chico, and is today a part of the Pensacola Shipyard Marine Complex.

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	USSB #	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	LOA	Delivered	Notes
Built by Pensacola Shipbuilding
1	965	219055	Escambia	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Oct 1919	scrapped 1931
2	966	218329	Cushnoc	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Sep 1919	scrapped 1931
3	967	219328	Noccalula	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Dec 1919	scrapped 1931
4	968	219442	Red Mountain	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Dec 1919	scrapped 1931
5	969	219517	Rockport	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Feb 1920	later Margarita Chandris 1938, scrapped 1964
6	970	219606	City of Sherman	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Apr 1920	scrapped 1931
7	971	219872	City of Vernon	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	June 1920	scrapped 1931
8	972	220161	City of Weatherford	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Sep 1920	later Ponce de Leon 1940, Sarazen 1943, scrapped 1947
9	973	220551	Hastings	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Sep 1920	torpedoed and lost 1943
10	974	220653	Naquog/Bayou Chico	USSB	freighter	5,400	400	Oct 1920	scrapped 1946
11		221069	Adler	River & Ocean Towing	tugboat	523	129	May 1921	later La Boca 1942, G. W. Whiteman 1953, deleted 1979
12		222514	Margaret Hall		tugboat	406	132	1922
		168595	No. 1	Belcher Asphalt	tank barge	318	129	1921
				Alexandria Coaling	tank barge		135		?
				Alexandria Coaling	tank barge		135		?
				Am. Mex. Oil Co.	tank barge				?
				Am. Mex. Oil Co.	tank barge				?
				Am. Mex. Oil Co.	tank barge				?
				Am. Mex. Oil Co.	tank barge				?
Built by Smith's Shipyard
1			ST-714	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1949 as Herman W. Duncan
2			ST-715	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1951 as Armadores
3		252595	ST-716	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1947 as Commandant, Dalzellido 1950, Tanda 11 1958, Joann Krause 1993
4			ST-717	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1947 as Saratoga, Capt. Rob Face 1990, scrapped 1997
5			ST-718	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1946 as Lilla, Jarl 1947, Atlas 1949
6			ST-719	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	torpedoed and lost in the North Atlantic
7			ST-720	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	torpedoed and lost in the North Atlantic
8			ST-721	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1947 as George R
9			ST-722	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944
10			ST-723	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944
11			ST-724	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	to USN as Albemarle, sold as Hiram Abiff
12		252350	ST-725	US Army	tugboat	150d	86	1944	sold 1946 as Utility, Marilyn 1964, Mary St. Philip 1965, Castle Hill 1969, Marjorie J. Winslow 1977, Capt. Macintire
			YO-126	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1944	sunk as target 1976
			YO-127	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1944
			YO-128	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1944	scrapped 1974
			YO-129	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1944	scrapped 1995
			YO-178	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945	sold 1953
			YO-179	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945	to Korea 1975
			YO-180	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945	to NDRF 1974
			YO-181	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945
			YO-205	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945	sunk as target 1977
			YO-206	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945
			YO-207	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945
			YO-208	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945
			YO-209	US Navy	tank barge	440d	174	1945