Liberty Dry Dock ~ Shipbuilding History

Liberty Dry Dock

Brooklyn NY

Most recent update: July 24, 2017.

This shipyard was originally started by James A. O'Boyle, who sold it in the 1920s to the Russells of Newtown Creek Towing. It was located at the foot of Quay Street, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, on the site once occupied by Continental Iron Works, builder of the Monitor. The company closed in 1955. From the known hull numbers, it must have had more of a production record than is shown here:

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	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	Tons	LOA	Built	Notes
36	239270	J. Raymond Russell	Newtown Creek Towing	tugboat	137	78	1939	later Muriel McAllister, Kinsale
37	239289	Russell 20	Newtown Creek Towing	tugboat	137	78	1940	later Mark Casey
38	240365	Edward Card	Card Towing	tugboat	132	78	1941	later Peter B. McAllister, Groton, Bertha M, Dianne Richards
39	241416	Russell 19	Newtown Creek Towing	tugboat	132	78	1942
40	243458	Russell 15	Newtown Creek Towing	tugboat	142	78	1943	later Dennis McAllister, Carmen A
		SC-736	US Navy	subchaser	136	110	27 Feb 1943	to the Philippines 1948 as Mountain Province (P-15)
		SC-737	US Navy	subchaser	136	110	20 May 1943	to the FLC 1947
44	251600	Harold Reinauer	Reinauer Transportation	tanker	950	223	June 1947	later Recovery III (Panama)
50	263194	Russell 14	Newtown Creek Towing	tugboat	190		1952	later Roberto G. Maquero (Mexico)
51		Y-487	US Army	tanker	1,200		1955	served in Vietnam
52	267604	Sanita	NYC Sanitation Dept.	tugboat	76	66	1954	later Soo Chief, Susan M. Selvick, Nathan S, John M. Perry, Zuccolo, Carla Selvick, Terry D