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

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