Lynch Shipbuilding

San Diego CA

This yard had been idle for years when it was acquired and reactivated in 1940 by Martinolich Shipbuilding. Martinolich got into difficulties early, however, and Frank Lynch, who had moved to San Diego from Idaho in 1926 and was in the lumber business, took over the yard in 1941. The yard was at the foot of 28th Street, immediately adjacent to NASSCO, and Lynch sold it to NASSCO in 1948.

O/N Name Customer Type GT Delivered Notes
Built by Martinolich Shipbuilding
250 Rhea (AMc-58) US Navy minesweeper 307d 15 Oct 1941 to MARAD 1946
251 Ruff (AMc-59) US Navy minesweeper 307d 15 Oct 1941 to MARAD 1946
Built by Lynch Shipbuilding
Conte Grande tuna seiner 296 1942 to USN 1942 as YP-520, scrapped 1947
258868 AMc-187/APc 45 US Navy coastal freighter 100d 27 Apr 1943 sold 1949 as Halawai, Tonquin
AMc-188/APc 46 US Navy coastal freighter 100d 11 Feb 1943 sold 1951 as Retriever, Pelican, lost 1969
AMc-189/APc 47 US Navy coastal freighter 100d 9 Jun 1943 fate unknown
255400 AMc-190/APc 48 US Navy coastal freighter 100d 30 Apr 1943 sold 1946 as Allen Cody, a yacht
AMc-191/APc 49 US Navy coastal freighter 100d 27 Apr 1943 fate unknown
AMc-192/APc 50 US Navy coastal freighter 100d 9 Jun 1943 fate unknown
YN-G-37 US Navy gate tender 1943 sold 1947
ATR-35 US Navy rescue tugboat 850d 5 May 1944 disposed-of 1946
ATR-36 US Navy rescue tugboat 850d 27 Jul 1944 disposed-of 1946
ATR-37 US Navy rescue tugboat 850d 30 Sep 1944 sold 1946 as Beaver
ATR-38 US Navy rescue tugboat 850d 15 Nov 1944 disposed-of 1946
ATR-39 US Navy rescue tugboat 850d 10 Jan 1945 disposed-of 1946
ATR-40 US Navy rescue tugboat 850d 39 Apr 1945 disposed-of 1946
104 1047746 Ghost Seawind Fisheries trawler 572 1944 later Sea Bird
249363 West Coast Anthony Mascarenhas freighter 199 1946 NLD
250929 Heroic Manuel O. Medina trawler 274 1946 NLD
251190 Katie Lou Felix Budzilko trawler 296 1946 NLD
Illusive (MSO-448) US Navy minesweeper 780d 14 Nov 1953 scrapped 1993
Impervious (MSO-449) US Navy minesweeper 780d 15 Jul 1954 scrapped 2002
Enhance (MSO-437) US Navy minesweeper 780d 16 Apr 1955 scrapped 2000
Esteem (MSO-438) US Navy minesweeper 780d 10 Sep 1955 scrapped 2000
Storione (MSO 506) US Navy minesweeper 780d 1 Feb 1956 to Italy as M 5434
Salmone (MSO 507) US Navy minesweeper 780d 1 Jun 1956 to Italy as M 5430, struck 1996

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