Cape Cod Shipbuilding ~ Shipbuilding History

Cape Cod Shipbuilding

Wareham MA

Most recent update: April 15, 2018.

Cape Cod Shipbuilding was established in 1899, by Myron and Charles Gurney, as the Cape Cod Power Dory Co: the name was changed in 1919, when they moved to 7 Narrows Road. They were prolific builders of small boats who expanded for WWII and after the war were among the first yards to build fiberglass boats, buying the rights to build all Herreshoff's designs and, amazingly, increasing their output even above its wartime level. The company continues in business today: visit them at capecodshipbuilding.com and see the yard from the air on Google here. The table below lists only the yard's wartime output and some of the larger commercial and recreational boats that they built.

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O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	LOA	Delivered	Notes
211415	Latella		freighter	5	24	1903
205238	Henry S. Rogers		trawler	16	36	1907
217058	Picaroon		pilot boat	11	36	1907
205894	Lucia		passenger	11	28	1908
281409	Sayonara		yacht	9	35	1908
220157	Marle B. II		yacht	19	48	1910	later Good Ship Lolli Pop
215337	Alert		passenger	47	57	1917
219549	Saltaire	Village of Saltaire	passenger	68	73	1919
232752	Halberd		trawler	10	32	1926
225493	Lillian B		trawler	14	39	1926
283010	Jude		passenger	10	32	1926
226710	Nor'easter		yacht	43	54	1927
260871	Lillian C		trawler	15	40	1928
283590	Caroline		yacht	12	35	1928
293727	Kim-Too		yacht	13	33	1930
230896	Southern Cross		trawler	23	45	1931
232358	Star Fire		motor yacht	37	55	1932	later Bolo
261684	J-521	US Army	passenger boat	13	40	1942	later p/v Margruss
	J-522	US Army	passenger boat		40	1942
253875	Barbara B		trawler	11	40	1942	ex-J-522 ?
253592	J-523	US Army	passenger boat	12	40	1942	later f/v Home Run, Yankee
	J-524 to 526	US Army	passenger boat		40	1943	3 boats
270646	J-527	US Army	passenger boat	10	40	1943	later p/v King Fisher
	J-528 to 533	US Army	passenger boat		40	1943	6 boats
250419	J-534	US Army	passenger boat	14	40	1943	later p/v Tole
252079	J-535	US Army	passenger boat	10	40	1943	later f/v Dipsy Doodle
	J-956 to 961	US Army	passenger boat		40	1943	6 boats
	J-1041	US Army	passenger boat		40	1943
	MTL-256 to 260	US Army	harbor tugboat		46	1943	5 boats
	MTL-537 to 539	US Army	harbor tugboat		46	1943	3 boats
250138	MTL-540	US Army	harbor tugboat	14	46	1943	later p/v Ronnie S
	MTL-541 to 564	US Army	harbor tugboat		46	1944	24 boats
250518	J-2143	US Army	salvage boat	25	50	1945	later f/v Blue Fish II
253267	J-2144	US Army	salvage boat	14	50	1945	later p/v Katharine P, Lone Ranger II
	J-2145 to 2148	US Army	salvage boat		50	1945	4 boats
249912	Judy J		trawler	13	37	1945
249678	Kuno		trawler	7	31	1946
278718	Susan		trawler	7	31	1946
252147	Stan-Jo IV		passenger	7	31	1947
257693	Bandar Shapur		passenger	7	31	1949	Bandar Shahpur ?
501139	Erimus		yacht	15	36	1965
512905	Vesta		yacht	6	30	1965
546661	Mystere		yacht	6	30	1973
596719	Synia		yacht	14	36	1978
618454	Afterglow		yacht	14	36	1980
648224	Mariah		yacht	21	44	1982
929927	Temerity		yacht	8	30	1983