Nilson & Kelez
Seattle WA
Most recent update: October 13, 2020.
Andrew S. Nilson, an immigrant from Norway, started building ships in Seattle in 1882. In 1909, he teamed up with Nicholas M. Kelez, a naval architect from Dubrovnik, and together they operated Nilson & Kelez Shipbuilding Corp., until it closed in 1922, The yard was at the west end of Atlantic Street, where the US Coast Guard station is today. The table below lists those vessels that I have been able to identify, although it is clearly incomplete.
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Delivered | Notes | |
207529 | Comet | freighter | 107 | 94 | 1910 | to USN 1918 as SP-772, post-war Dorothea, to USN 1942 as YAG-31, post-war Delpen, NLD | ||
164545 | Pioneer S. & G. No. 10 | Pioneer Sand & Gravel | hopper barge | 647 | 140 | 1911 | ||
164671 | Pioneer S. & G. No. 11 | Pioneer Sand & Gravel | hopper barge | 647 | 140 | 1911 | ||
Pioneer Sand & Gravel | hopper barge | |||||||
Pioneer Sand & Gravel | hopper barge | |||||||
165171 | Alaska | White Pass & Yukon RW | passenger | 642 | 165 | 1913 | to Canada 1927 (ON 116621), laid up 1951, scrapped 1964 | |
165172 | Yukon | White Pass & Yukon RW | passenger | 642 | 165 | 1913 | burned 1948 | |
209542 | Sumner | halibut schooner | 50 | 61 | 1913 | abandoned 1936 | ||
209707 | Union Jack | Union Cod Fishing Co. | halibut schooner | 57 | 85 | 1913 | sold 1914 as Delphia (Germany), captured by France 1915, sold to Australian owners | |
210842 | Idaho | halibut schooner | 76 | 78 | 1913 | to BuFish 1919 as Eider, to USN 1942 as YP-198, returned 1945, to USGS-1949, to Marshall I. 1955, sank 19?? | ||
210970 | Oregon | Columbia River Packers Assn. | halibut schooner | 107 | 80 | 1913 | later St. Mary, Port Hueneme, to Mexico 1948 | |
211859 | Yakutat | Pete Bjerke and John Selleret | halibut schooner | 60 | 68 | 1913 | ||
211956 | Warrior | Pacific American Fisheries | cannery tender | 82 | 59 | 1914 | grounded and lost 1967 | |
212012 | Tyee | Scott Daniel & Moe Bros. | trawler | 130 | 93 | 1914 | later Chukotsk, Dorothy, to USA 1942 as FS-101, to Canada 1956, Shirley Rose, Tyee No. 1 | |
212209 | Alma | Juneau Ferry & Nav. Co. | passenger | 95 | 83 | 1914 | to USA 1943 as Q-113, burned 1964 | |
213069 | Chickamauga | Pacific Towboat Co. | tugboat | 51 | 59 | 1914 | later Sea Chicken, Chickamauga, scrapped 2014 | |
dredge | 1914 | assembled in Mimnk Creek AK | ||||||
165879 | Susitna | Knik-Susitna Co. | barge | 30 | 65 | 1915 | NLD 1915 | |
165880 | Knik | Knik-Susitna Co. | barge | 30 | 65 | 1915 | abandoned 1945 | |
213053 | Jane | Knik-Susitna Co. | towboat | 1915 | lost 1915 | |||
213935 | Breaker | Nelson Lagoon Packing | freighter | 257 | 89 | 1916 | abandoned 1940 | |
215742 | State of Oregon | Alaska Pacific Nav. Co. | freighter | 1,616 | 215 | 1917 | completed as Oregon, NLD 1945 | |
216577 | State of Alabama | Alaska Pacific Nav. Co. | freighter | 2,088 | 254 | 1918 | completed as Alabama, sold foreign 1919 | |
216847 | Bonnafone | USSB | cargo (#465) | 2,542 | 268 | 1918 | scrapped 1924 | |
216919 | Forster | USSB | cargo (#466) | 2,552 | 268 | 1918 | scrapped 1924 | |
217231 | Octorara | USSB | cargo (#467) | 2,531 | 268 | 1918 | scrapped 1924 | |
217721 | Snoqualmie/Adway | USSB | cargo (#468) | 2,537 | 268 | 1918 | scrapped 1924 | |
220731 | Cinyras | USSB | cargo (#2140) | 2,537 | 268 | 1920 | cancelled but completed as barge Griffson | |
225156 | We Go | Snow Creek Logging | tugboat | 34 | 57 | 1922 | later Barbara Foss |