Matthews Shipbuilding
Hoquiam WA
Most recent update: September 3, 2018.
Matthews Shipbuilding was started in 1897 by Peter Matthews. After his death in 1900, it became Hitchings & Joyce, and then in 1906 it was bought by George H. Matthews and became Matthews Shipbuilding. It closed in 1923. The yard was located by the E. K. Wood Lumber mill, although the exact location is not clear. The table below is clearly incomplete:
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
157487 | Defiance | schooner | 604 | 180 | 1897 | |||
157502 | Dirigo | J. S. Kimball Co | passenger | 823 | 165 | 1898 | foundered off Cape Fairweather 1914 | |
157526 | Dauntless | schooner | 548 | 162 | 1898 | |||
121109 | Fred J. Wood | schooner | 681 | 181 | 1899 | |||
150822 | Petrel | schooner | 5 | 34 | 1899 | |||
111262 | Robert Dollar | Robert Dollar | passenger | 798 | 199 | 1900 | Fair Oaks 1907, abandoned 1932 | |
111268 | Rainier | Pollard & Dodge | freighter | 800 | 205 | 1900 | collision off Port Angeles and scrapped 1923 | |
121159 | Fearless | schooner | 736 | 182 | 1900 | |||
93110 | Mahukona | schooner | 738 | 182 | 1901 | |||
107702 | A. F. Coats | schooner | 617 | 172 | 1901 | burned at Ponce 1926 | ||
127468 | Coronado | T. Pollard | passenger | 578 | 186 | 1901 | foundered off Point Arena 1917 | |
155437 | Olympic | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 688 | 186 | 1901 | foundered off Puerto Mexico 1917 | |
93272 | Melrose | schooner | 615 | 172 | 1902 | |||
107794 | Alert | schooner | 623 | 174 | 1902 | |||
111392 | Resolute | schooner | 684 | 182 | 1902 | |||
200714 | Shasta | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 722 | 200 | 1903 | wrecked off Point Conception 1906 | |
162281 | Helen P. Drew | passenger | 286 | 135 | 1904 | |||
203045 | Tiverton | J. E. Davenport & Co | freighter | 557 | 155 | 1906 | wrecked off Humboldt Bar 1933 | |
203859 | Helene | E. T. Kruse | freighter | 672 | 172 | 1906 | scrapped 1930 | |
203894 | Temple E. Dorr | Pacific Lumber Co | freighter | 720 | 176 | 1907 | burned at Cojimar 1919 | |
204277 | William H. Murphy | Pacific Lumber Co | steamer | 923 | 191 | 1907 | burned at Port of Spain 1918 | |
204673 | Saginaw | Hart-Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 886 | 191 | 1908 | scrapped 1940 | |
204900 | San Jacinto | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 614 | 160 | 1908 | Border King 1925, Mario 1944, deleted 1947 | |
205041 | Shasta | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 878 | 192 | 1908 | wrecked off Alameda 1937 | |
209439 | Daisy Gadsby | S. S. Freeman & Co | freighter | 818 | 189 | 1911 | to USA 1944 as FS-538, deleted 1953 | |
210616 | Avalon | Avalon S.S.Co | freighter | 881 | 204 | 1912 | wrecked in Willapa Bay 1927 | |
27 | 210872 | Siskiyou | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 884 | 204 | 1912 | scuttled in San Francisco Bay 1938 |
28 | 211074 | O. M. Clark | C. H. Higgins | freighter | 844 | 200 | 1913 | burned in Norfolk 1918 |
211634 | Rosalie Mahony | Olson & Mahony | freighter | 946 | 201 | 1913 | Border Queen 1926, barge 1937, scuttled 1942 in Victoria BC | |
211723 | Daisy Putnam | S. S. Freeman & Co | freighter | 886 | 201 | 1913 | wrecked near Point Gorda 1929 | |
214266 | Daisy Matthews | S. S. Freeman & Co | freighter | 943 | 205 | 1916 | wrecked on Trinidad Head 1940 | |
214391 | Sierra | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 1,050 | 211 | 1917 | scrapped 1975 | |
214638 | Hartwood | Hart-Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 946 | 199 | 1916 | wrecked on Point Reyes 1929 | |
38 | Santa Elena | W. R. Grace & Co | freighter | 1,928 | 216 | 1917 | burned in Valparaiso 1920 | |
39 | 215330 | Santa Isabel | W. R. Grace & Co | freighter | 1,919 | 216 | 1918 | Iquique 1921, burned off Coquimbo 1921 |
215888 | Lassen | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 717 | 176 | 1917 | burned in Oakland 1932 | |
215907 | Claremont | Hart-Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 1,291 | 225 | 1917 | Alwill 1941, North Bend 1942, Consuelo-A 1947, wrecked off Surigao 1948 | |
216794 | San Diego | Hart-Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 1,487 | 237 | 1918 | deleted 1951 | |
Mount Shasta | Cornelius Bull's Rederi | schooner | 1,571 | 1919 | Comet 1923, Seeadler 1924, Comet 1925, Vaterland 1926, Mopelia 1929, burned 1935 | |||
Mount Hood | Cornelius Bull's Rederi | schooner | 1,490 | 1919 | Marie Gertrude 1923, Kontreadmiral Hermelo 1927, Peter Wilstermann 1927, burned 1927 | |||
219516 | Vigilant | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 1,603 | 1920 | |||
220985 | Quineault | W. H. Wood | freighter | 1,138 | 210 | 1921 | Bunty 1946, scrapped 1950 | |
221305 | Undaunted | freighter | 2,266 | 1921 | wrecked in Peru 1931 | |||
222719 | Daisy Gray | S. S. Freeman & Co | freighter | 1,187 | 216 | 1921 | Dorotea 1952, Rio Tinto 1953, foundered off Aruba 1954 | |
223313 | Esther Johnson | A. J. Johnson, Jr. | freighter | 1,104 | 208 | 1923 | deleted 1957 | |
226495 | North Beach | freighter | 225 | 1927 |