Welding Shipyards
Norfolk VA
Most recent update: March 17, 2014.
Welding Shipyards was not a large shipyard but historically it was a very important one. It was founded in 1940 by the legendary D. K. Ludwig, who had formed National Bulk Carriers in 1936. The yard had one berth, 600 employees and all the ships it built were all-welded. When Ludwig took over the Kure yard in Japan in 1953, he continued the Welding Shipyards sequence of hull numbers.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Delivered | Notes | |
| 8 | Virginia | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 11,000 | 516 | Mar 1941 | torpedoed and lost in Gulf of Mexico 1942 | |
| 10 | 241273 | Bulkoil | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 8,000 | 456 | Jan 1942 | later Munger T. Ball 1947, Transwestern 1958, scrapped 1961 |
| 11 | 242509 | Virginia | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 11,000 | 516 | Nov 1942 | later Amoco Maryland 1955, Virginia 1966, scrapped 1967 |
| 12 | 243208 | Pan Massachusetts | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 11,000 | 516 | Apr 1943 | later Commonwealth 1953, Calgary 1964, Defiant Spirit 1965, Cerberus 1966, scrapped 1968 |
| 13 | 244054 | Pan Pennsylvania | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 11,000 | 516 | Nov 1943 | sunk by u-boat off Long Island NY 1944 |
| 14 | 244016 | Bulklube | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 11,000 | 516 | Dec 1943 | later Star Point 1962, Freeport 1963, scrapped 1963 |
| 15 | 244986 | Bulkfuel | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 11,000 | 516 | Feb 1944 | later Amoco Texas 1955, Bulkfuel 1961, scrapped 1964 |
| 16 | 245480 | Bulkcrude | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 11,000 | 516 | Apr 1944 | later Blue Point 1962, scrapped 1963 |
| 17 | 245884 | Bulkero | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 11,000 | 516 | June 1944 | later Amoco Florida 1957, Black Point 1962, scrapped 1963 |
| 18 | 246756 | Phoenix | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 14,200 | 556 | Nov 1944 | damaged in collision 1953, total loss |
| 19 | 247307 | Nashbulk | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 14,200 | 556 | Feb 1945 | later Peranza 1973, scrapped 1975 |
| 20 | 247968 | Amtank | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker (T3) | 14,200 | 556 | May 1945 | later Mounthope 1972, scrapped 1979 |
| 21 | 248748 | Hampton Roads | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 14,200 | 556 | June 1945 | later Pine 1972, scrapped 1975 |
| 22 | Ulysses | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 14,600 | 597 | June 1947 | later Phaedon 1964, scrapped 1966 | |
| 23 | Danginn | D. K. Ludwig | yacht | 722 | Feb 1950 | later Henriette | ||
| 24 | Bulkpetrol | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 15,600 | 630 | 1948 | later Vega 1966, combined with Mobile Energy 1971, scrapped 1975 | |
| 25 | Bulkoil | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 15,600 | 630 | 1949 | later Altair 1966, Pegasus 1967, Keo 1968, broke in two and sank off Nantucket 1969 | |
| 26 | Bulkoceanic | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 15,600 | 630 | 1949 | later Pacocean 1968, broke in two and sank off Taiwan 1969 | |
| 27 | Bulkstar | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 15,600 | 630 | 1949 | later Amphialos 1963, broke in two and sank off Cape Cod 1964 | |
| 28 | Bulktrader | Nat. Bulk Carriers | tanker | 15,600 | 630 | 1950 | later Golden Drake 1964, exploded and sank off Venezuela 1972 |