Other Pre-WWI Shipbuilders
On The Pacific Coast
Most recent update: October 8, 2013.
This table attempts to cover those other shipbuilders located on the Pacific Coast that were active in the years between the Civil War and World War One.
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Builder | Location | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
California | ||||||||||
Barnes & Tibbetts | Alameda CA | Carolyn Frances | Western Whaling & Trading Co | freighter | 569 | 1918 | aux schooner, Charles Brower 1925, Choukotka 1928, deleted 1948 | |||
Birch, William H. | San Francisco CA | Nunivak | US Revenue Service | 486 | 1899 | sold 1901 | ||||
Boole & Braton | San Francisco CA | Ajax | Oregon Coal & Nav Co | freighter | 836 | 1888 | wrecked Blunt's Reef, San Francisco 1890 | |||
Boole & Son | Oakland CA | Prentiss | J. D. Gray & Co | freighter | 406 | 1901 | later Exito 1934, Prentiss 1936, reduced to a barge 1939 | |||
Boole & Son | Oakland CA | A. H. Payson | freighter | 158 | 1902 | |||||
Boole, G. | San Francisco CA | Lahaina | Hind, Rolph & Co. | freighter | 1901 | |||||
Boole, G. | San Francisco CA | Cosmopolis | Higgins & Collins | freighter | 366 | 1887 | later Kauai 1895, wrecked Mahukona, near Honolulu 1913 | |||
Boole, G. | San Francisco CA | Rival | Blair, S. | freighter | 426 | 1888 | abandoned c1920 | |||
Boole, G. | San Francisco CA | Del Norte | J. K. C. Hobbs | freighter | 301 | 1888 | later Hawaii 1889, scrapped 1904 | |||
Boole, W.A. | Oakland CA | Sibyl Marston | Sibyl Marston Co | freighter | 1,000 | 1906 | wrecked Surf 1909 | |||
Brusstar, W.S. | Oakland CA | Avarua | freighter | 146 | 1916 | |||||
Central Pacific RR | Oakland CA | Piedmont | ferry | 1,854 | 1883 | scrapped 1944 | ||||
Collyer, W. | San Francisco CA | James M. Donohue | San Francisco & N Pacific Railway Co | passenger | 730 | 1875 | scrapped 1924 | |||
Collyer, W. | San Francisco CA | Newark | Southern Pacific RR Co | ferry | 1,237 | 1877 | later Sacramento 1923, sold 1955 as a fishing barge off Redondo Beach | |||
Collyer, W. | San Francisco CA | Bay City | Southern Pacific RR Co | ferry | 1,283 | 1878 | scrapped 1929 | |||
Coronado IW | Coronado CA | Silver Gate | San Diego & Coronado Ferry Co | ferry | 528 | 1888 | scrapped 1920 | |||
Doe, C.P. | Wilmington CA | Eureka | C. P. Doe, San Francisco | freighter | 484 | 1900 | wrecked near Point Reyes 1915 | |||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | President | Alaska Packers' Assn | freighter | 377 | 1895 | last seen in El Salvador 1907 | |||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Grace Dollar | Dollar, R. | freighter | 429 | 1898 | later Hardy 1913, San Antonio 1919, scrapped 1936 | |||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Ruth | A. W. Beadle & Co | freighter | 377 | 1898 | wrecked Fisherman's Bay 1903 | |||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Samoa | J. R. Hanify & Co | freighter | 377 | 1898 | wrecked San Francisco harbor 1913 | |||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Newburg | Pollard & Dodge | freighter | 450 | 1898 | wrecked Bodega 1918 | |||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Richmond | tugboat | 135 | 1900 | |||||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Chilkat | freighter | 172 | 1901 | |||||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Sea Rover | tugboat | 199 | 1902 | |||||
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. | San Francisco CA | Arabs | tugboat | 155 | 1904 | |||||
Fulton, C.E. | Los Angeles CA | Aliceil | Swift & Co | freighter | 709 | 1916 | wrecked Point Loma 1916 | |||
Hall Brothers | San Francisco CA | Rush | US Revenue Service | cutter | 300 | 1885 | sold 1913 | |||
Hansen & Fraser | San Francisco CA | Caspar | Caspar Lumber Co | freighter | 300 | 1888 | wrecked Punta Arenas 1897 | |||
Hanson & Fraser | San Francisco CA | Hermosa | Wilmington Tptn Co | passenger | 455 | 1889 | abandoned 1902 | |||
Hay & Wright | Alameda CA | Charles Nelson | C. Nelson | freighter | 629 | 1898 | burned 1913 | |||
Hay & Wright | Alameda CA | Hanalei | Inter-Island S.N.Co Ltd | freighter | 666 | 1901 | wrecked Duxbury Reef, off Bolinas 1914 | |||
Hay & Wright | Alameda CA | Kona | Hind, Rolph & Co. | freighter | 1901 | |||||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | Noyo | Noyo Lumber Co | freighter | 316 | 1887 | foundered off Point Reyes 1918 | |||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | Pasadena | Kerckhoff, Cuzner & Co | freighter | 300 | 1887 | scrapped 1935 | |||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | W. L. Hardison | Mission Transfer Co | freighter | 453 | 1888 | burned 1989 | |||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | National City | C. A. Hooper & Co | freighter | 491 | 1888 | deleted 1924 | |||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | Farrallon | Dolbeer & Carson | freighter | 750 | 1888 | wrecked Illiamna Bay 1910 | |||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | Point Loma | C. A. Hooper & Co | freighter | 310 | 1888 | wrecked Long Beach 1896 | |||
Hay, A. | San Francisco CA | Truckee | Truckee Lumber Co | freighter | 417 | 1890 | wrecked Umpqua River 1897 | |||
Marshall, G. B. | Antioch CA | G. B. Marshall | 1909 | |||||||
Muller, W. | Wilmington CA | Hermosa | Wilmington Tptn Co | freighter | 483 | 1902 | burned near Punta Arenas 1935 | |||
Muller, W. | San Pedro CA | Cabrillo | Wilmington Tptn Co | freighter | 611 | 1904 | deleted 1959 | |||
Muller, W. | Wilmington CA | John N. Stewart | tugboat | 120 | 1926 | |||||
North Shore RR | Tiburon CA | Ukiah | North Shore RR Co | ferry | 2,564 | 1890 | later Eureka 1921, preserved in San Francisco 1957 | |||
North, J.W. | San Francisco CA | Yosemite | passenger | 1,525 | 1862 | wrecked near Bremerton 1909 | ||||
Petersen, A. | Raymond CA | Solano | SS-Solano Co | freighter | 943 | 1913 | later Oregon Coast 1943, burned Salina Cruz 1946 | |||
Peterson, A. | Raymond CA | Mukilteo | Charles Nelson Co | freighter | 1,103 | 1915 | scrapped 1937 | |||
Reed, A. | Fort Bragg CA | Sequoia | J. S. Kimball Co | freighter | 411 | 1898 | wrecked near Humboldt Bar 1907 | |||
Renck & Stone | Oakland CA | Palawan | C. H. Kroll, San Francisco | freighter | 818 | 1918 | aux schooner, burned off Hango 1932 | |||
Robertson, J. | Benicia CA | La Merced | Standard Oil of California | freighter | 1,696 | 1917 | aux schooner, scrapped 1965 | |||
Robertson, J. | Benicia CA | Oronite | Standard Oil of California | freighter | 1,704 | 1918 | aux schooner, Aneiurong 1925, scrapped 1932 | |||
San Francisco SB | Redwood City CA | Faith | San Francisco S.S. Co | freighter | 3,427 | 1918 | deleted 1922 | |||
Southern Pacific | Oakland CA | Melrose | Southern Pacific RR Co | ferry | 2,662 | 1908 | wrecked off White Point, Los Angeles 1932 | |||
Southern Pacific | Oakland CA | Thoroughfare | Southern Pacific RR Co | ferry | 2,620 | 1912 | scrapped 1935 | |||
Southern Pacific | Oakland CA | Contra Costa | Southern Pacific RR Co | ferry | 5,373 | 1914 | scrapped 1934 | |||
Southern Pacific SY | Oakland CA | Alameda | 2,302 | 1914 | ||||||
Turner, M. | San Francisco CA | Dora | Alaska Commercial Co | freighter | 198 | 1880 | wrecked Alert Bay 1920 | |||
Turner, M. | Benicia CA | Karluk | freighter | 321 | 1884 | crushed in ice off Herald Is 1914 | ||||
Turner, M. | Benicia CA | Bertha | Karluk Packing Co | freighter | 597 | 1888 | wrecked Uyak Bay 1915 | |||
Turner, M. | Benicia CA | Eclipse | freighter | 211 | 1900 | |||||
Turner, M. | Benicia CA | Gazelle | freighter | 151 | 1901 | wrecked 1909 | ||||
White, C.G. | San Francisco CA | Santa Maria | freighter | 344 | 1884 | sold in Peru 1894 | ||||
White, C.G. | San Francisco CA | Alcatraz | freighter | 256 | 1887 | |||||
White, C.G. | San Francisco CA | South Coast | West Coast S.S. Co | freighter | 302 | 1887 | missing - sailed Coos Bay 1930 | |||
White, C.G. | San Francisco CA | Encinal | Southern Pacific RR Co | ferry | 2,014 | 1888 | scrapped 1930 | |||
White, C.G. | Alameda CA | Albion | J. S. Kimball Co | freighter | 319 | 1892 | wrecked near Stewart's Point CA-1913 | |||
White, C.G. | Alameda CA | Rosalie | J. J. Ebert | passenger | 319 | 1893 | burned Seattle 1918 | |||
Whitelaw, T.P.H. | Alameda CA | Whitelaw | T.P.H.Whitelaw | freighter | 363 | 1895 | burned Skagway 1898 | |||
Wilmington SB | San Pedro CA | Ghislaine | Soc Gen des Houilles & Agglomeres | freighter | 1,517 | 1917 | later Whitney Olson 1922, Catherine II 1947, Fire Bird 1948, scrapped 1949 | |||
Wilmington SB | San Pedro CA | Lucinda Hanify | J. R. Hanify & Co | freighter | 1,517 | 1917 | later Utique 1918, Thomas Crowley 1922, Jane Nettleton 1925, scuttled 1937 | |||
Wilmington CA | Warrior | freighter | 122 | 1901 | ||||||
Wilmington CA | Santa Rosa Island | freighter | 140 | 1903 | ||||||
Wilmington CA | Vaquero | freighter | 231 | 1913 | ||||||
Oregon | ||||||||||
Columbia EW | Portland OR | Chiquimula | M. T. Snyder | freighter | 687 | 1917 | aux schooner, abandoned 1941 | |||
Columbia EW | Portland OR | Tempate | Tempate Ship Corp | freighter | 698 | 1917 | aux schooner, wrecked Hog Cay, Bahamas 1923 | |||
Columbia EW | Portland OR | Guanacaste | M. C. Keith | freighter | 632 | 1917 | aux schooner, made into a barge 1924 | |||
Columbia EW | Portland OR | Diria | Diria Ship Corp | freighter | 1,492 | 1917 | aux schooner, foundered Guantanamo Bay 1919 | |||
Columbia EW | Portland OR | Louise Bryn | Pacific Motor Schooner Corp | freighter | 821 | 1918 | aux schooner, Pinthia 1920, scrapped 1922 | |||
Columbia EW | Portland OR | Elvira Stolt | Cia Naviera | freighter | 813 | 1918 | aux schooner, wrecked Pupug, Bohol Is 1924 | |||
Elmore Fish Canning | Astoria OR | R. P. Elmore | Elmore & Sanborn Fisheries | passenger | 1890 | Tug 1901, burned 1922 but rebuilt, Kiket 1967, Elmore 1982, live-aboard in BC | ||||
Heuckendorff | Prosper OR | Wellesley | Wellesley Co | freighter | 709 | 1907 | burned and scrapped 1942 | |||
Heuckendorff | Prosper OR | Bowdoin | Bowdoin Co | freighter | 756 | 1907 | wrecked False Cape, Nicaragua 1917 | |||
Kiernan & Kern | Portland OR | Katia | Katia S.S. Corp | freighter | 2,239 | 1918 | later Katiagallus 1920, Katia 1921, burned Suez Roads 1924 | |||
Kruse | North Bend OR | Beda | freighter | 370 | 1883 | foundered off Cape Perpetua 1886 | ||||
Kruse, E.T. | Marshfield OR | Casco | Swayne & Hoyt | freighter | 569 | 1906 | wrecked Piedras Blancas 1913 | |||
Muller, W. | Prosper OR | Coquille River | Sudden, R. | freighter | 415 | 1896 | later Winchester 1925, foundered Oakland 1932 | |||
Oregon IW | Portland OR | Corwin | US Revenue Service | cutter | 227 | 1876 | sold 1900 | |||
Pacific SB | Marshfield OR | Marshfield | C. A. Hooper & Co | freighter | 388 | 1901 | later Bertie M. Hanlon 1920, foundered Alameda 1939 | |||
Pacquet, J. | Portland OR | Arrow | Arrow Navigation | passenger | 318 | 1903 | deleted 1925 | |||
Price, J. H. | Bandon OR | Daisy | Daisy S.S. Co | freighter | 679 | 1907 | later Thos. H. Elliott 1935, Redwood 1935, burned off Eureka 1939 | |||
Price, J. H. | Bandon OR | Gleaner | Gardiner Mill Co | tugboat | 154 | 1908 | later ST 216, Erik Foss 1952 | |||
Price, J. H. | St Helens OR | Celilo | C. R. McCormick Co | freighter | 943 | 1913 | scrapped 1945 | |||
Price, J. H. | St Helens OR | Henry J. Biddle | freighter | 229 | 1913 | |||||
Price, J. H. | Seattle WA | Donna Lane | freighter | 2,185 | 1919 | scrapped 1947 | ||||
Price, J. H. | Seattle WA | Muriel | freighter | 2,220 | 1920 | later Z. R. 3 1926, scuttled as breakwater Oyster Bay BC 1942 | ||||
Reed, H. R. | Coquille OR | Homer | C. H. Butler & Co | freighter | 501 | 1891 | barge 1938, deleted 1944 | |||
Reed, H. R. | Coos Bay OR | Santa Ana | A. W. Beadle & Co | freighter | 767 | 1900 | deleted 1935 | |||
Reed, H. R. | Bay City OR | Arctic | J. S. Kimball Co | freighter | 392 | 1901 | wrecked Point Arena 1922 | |||
Reed, H. R. | Marshfield OR | Coos Bay | freighter | 545 | 1884 | wrecked Ventura CA-1914 | ||||
Simpson, A. M. | North Bend OR | Brunswick | C. A. Hooper & Co | freighter | 436 | 1898 | burned at Puntarenas 1947 | |||
Simpson, A. M. | North Bend OR | Mandalay | Simpson Lumber Co | freighter | 438 | 1900 | wrecked Klamath River 1918 | |||
Smith Bros Watson | Portland OR | Tacoma | ferry | 1,362 | 1884 | later M.T. No. 6 1918, in collision and sank 1949 | ||||
Sorensen, E. | Portland OR | Yaquina | Z. J. Hatch & D. S. Suthill | freighter | 356 | 1881 | wrecked Hueneme Bar 1897 | |||
Steffen, J. F. | Portland OR | Sehome | Oregon Railway & Nav Co | passenger | 692 | 1889 | rammed and sunk in San Pablo Bay, Cal. 1918 | |||
Steffen, J. H. | Portland OR | Victorian | Union Pacific RR Co | passenger | 1,504 | 1891 | scrapped 1913 | |||
Timberman, Max | Marshfield OR | Hilda | 1906 | |||||||
Watson Bros | Astoria OR | Wahkeena | C. R. McCormick & Co | freighter | 1,030 | 1916 | wrecked Aberdeen WA 1928 | |||
Whelan, F. | Astoria OR | General Miles | tugboat | 137 | 1882 | later Willapa 1891, Bellingham 1903, scuttled by fire 1950 | ||||
Willamette | Portland OR | H. B. Kennedy | H. B. Kennedy | passenger | 499 | 1909 | later Seattle 1927, barge 1946 | |||
Astoria OR | General Miles | passenger | 331 | 1891 | later Gedney 1893, scrapped 1930 | |||||
Washington | ||||||||||
Andersen SB | Seattle WA | Rose (WAGL-242) | US Revenue Service | tender | 567 | 1916 | sold 1948 | |||
Blanchard & Wheeler | Tacoma WA | Alice Blanchard | Blanchard Transit Co | freighter | 542 | 1890 | later Chico 1902, wrecked Shelter Cove, Cal., 1906 | |||
Elliott Bay | Seattle WA | Trolltind | Anglo-Norwegian Shipping | freighter | 2,175 | 1918 | deleted 1926 | |||
Elliott Bay | Seattle WA | Kirketind | freighter | 2,205 | 1919 | later Wm. Donovan 1920, scrapped 1941 | ||||
Elliott Bay | Seattle WA | Semmeltind | freighter | 2,170 | 1919 | later Friedland 1921, City of Nome 1924, burned Aberdeen WA 1927 | ||||
Hanson Shipyard | Seattle WA | Katahdin | Anacortes Packing | tugboat | 1899 | later Catherine Foss | ||||
Haskell & Crawford | Tacoma WA | Alice | 1897 | |||||||
Heath, E. W. | Everett WA | Majestic | Thompson Steamboat Co | ferry | 657 | 1901 | later Whatcom 1904, City of Bremerton 1922, scrapped 1938 | |||
Heath, E. W. | Tacoma WA | Clallam | Puget Sound Nav Co | passenger | 672 | 1903 | foundered off Smith Is 1904 | |||
Heath, E. W. | Tacoma WA | Jefferson | Alaska S.S. Co | freighter | 1,615 | 1904 | scrapped 1925 | |||
Heath, E. W. | Port Blakely WA | Great Bear | J. Burden & L. L. Lane | schooner | 367 | 1916 | foundered near Pinnacle Rock, Bering Sea 1916 | |||
Johnson & Blanchard | Seattle WA | Kuskokwim River | Westward Nav Co | freighter | 643 | 1916 | Latyer Portland 1917, Admiral Knight 1919, burned Straits of Georgia 1919 | |||
King & Winge | Seattle WA | Utopia | Union Transit Co. | passenger | 423 | 1893 | burned Richmond Beach, Wash. 1929 | |||
King & Winge | Seattle WA | Samson | Puget Sound Nav. Co. | freighter | 328 | 1903 | deleted 1931 | |||
King & Winge | Seattle WA | Linda Kay | freighter | 286 | 1903 | |||||
King & Winge | Seattle WA | King & Winge | schooner | 1914 | ||||||
King & Winge | Seattle WA | Perdita | freighter | 286 | 1903 | |||||
Lake's Yard | Ballard WA | J. R. McDonald | Pennington Nav Co | freighter | 280 | 1890 | later Cassiar 1901, J. R. McDonald 1923, burned Sequim Bay, Wash., 1940 | |||
McWhinney, W. H. | Aberdeen WA | G. C. Lindauer | Wilson Bros & Co | freighter | 453 | 1902 | wrecked Umpqua 1924 | |||
McWhinny Starret | Hoquiam WA | Tamalpais | E. K. Wood Lumber Co | freighter | 574 | 1906 | wrecked Moss Landing 1931 | |||
Mitchell, J. | Seattle WA | Alice Gertrude | J. R. Thompson | freighter | 413 | 1898 | wrecked Clallam Bay 1907 | |||
Mitchell, J. F. T. | Seattle WA | George E. Starr | L. M. Starr | freighter | 472 | 1879 | deleted 1920 | |||
Mortensen, L. | Skamokawa WA | Michigan | W. L. Colville | freighter | 567 | 1888 | wrecked Bonilla Point 1893 | |||
National SB | Seattle WA | Apex | L. Wakefield | freighter | 762 | 1917 | later Okhotsk 1928, burned Petropavlovsk 1930 | |||
National SB | Seattle WA | Brisk | Minehaha Motor Schooner Corp | freighter | 2,152 | 1918 | aux schooner, burned 1920 | |||
Pacific Steel barge | Everett WA | City of Everett | whaleback | 2,504 | 1894 | lost in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico 1923 | ||||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Benowa | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,093 | 1918 | scrapped 1923 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Babinda | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,099 | 1918 | burned Santa Cruz CA-1923 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Bundarra | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,016 | 1918 | hulked Sydney 1924 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Bethanga | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,014 | 1918 | scuttled by fire off Sydney 1930 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Birriwa | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 2,989 | 1918 | hulked Sydney 1923 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Bellata | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 2,959 | 1918 | hulked Sydney 1922 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Boobyalla | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,100 | 1919 | burned Victoria BC 1929 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Berringa | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,007 | 1919 | scuttled off Sydney 1922 | |||
Patterson M'Donald | Seattle WA | Balcatta | Govt. of Australia | freighter | 3,109 | 1919 | later Presidente Alessandri 1923, burned Tocopilla 1923 | |||
Petersen, A. | Aberdeen WA | Oregon | Det Forenede D/S | freighter | 989 | 1916 | deleted 1953 | |||
Peterson, N. C. | Everett WA | Nellie | Washington Tug & barge | tugboat | 27 | 1901 | later Bee | |||
Peterson, T. H. | Port Madison WA | Lakme | G. S. Hinsdale | freighter | 529 | 1888 | abandoned Oakland Creek, Cal., 1922 | |||
Sloan & Hill | Seattle WA | San Juan | freighter | 284 | 1904 | |||||
Springer, Nicholas A. | Aberdeen WA | Florence B. | 1907 | |||||||
Port Townsend WA | Scout | US Revenue Service | cutter | 22 | 1896 | sold 1915 | ||||
Everett WA | City of Everett | freighter | 212 | 1900 | later Intrepid | |||||
Ballard WA | Charles Counselman | tugboat | 123 | 1900 | later Willapa 1891, Bellingham 1892, burned Seattle 1950 | |||||
Seattle WA | Heather | USCG | tender | 730 | 1903 | to US Army 1940 | ||||
Lopez WA | Calcite | John McMillin | yacht | 1907 | later Nancy Foss 1939, Nancy Bear 1975 | |||||
Seattle WA | tugboat | 1912 | later Peggy Foss 1923 | |||||||
Washington Marine | Seattle WA | Washington | Washington Marine Co | freighter | 520 | 1906 | wrecked Eureka 1932 | |||
Washington Sg Corp | Seattle WA | Tacoma | Skibs A/S Tacoma | freighter | 1,608 | 1917 | aux schooner, Helem B. Stirling 1921, foundered Three Kings Is 1922 | |||
West & Slade | Aberdeen WA | Aberdeen | Beadle Bros | freighter | 499 | 1899 | wrecked outside Golden Gate 1916 | |||
White, C.H. | Everett WA | John S. Kimball | Kimball S.S. Co | freighter | 1,588 | 1900 | later James Dollar 1903, Santa Clara 1905, wrecked Coos Bay 1915 | |||
White, G.I. | Everett WA | Johan Poulsen | SS-Johan Poulsen Co | freighter | 650 | 1906 | later Evelyn Berg 1934, Chatham 1938, burned Ward's Cove, near Ketchikan, 1938 | |||
Other | ||||||||||
Whidden, G.R. | New Whatcum | General Frisbie | Monticello S.S. Co | passenger | 544 | 1901 | later Commander 1930, houseboat on Lake Washington 1967 |