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 | ||