Shelburne Shipyard

Shelburne VT

Most recent update: November 24, 2010.

The Shelburne Shipyard is one of our oldest, getting started in 1823. Its first vessel was the steamship General Greene, built for the newly chartered Lake Champlain Transportation Company in 1825, which owned the yard for 113 years. When World War II started, it was leased to Donovan Contracting Company, of St. Paul MN. After the war, it was sold to Jerry and Wendell Aske and the yard went from defense work to building private yachts, returning briefly to defense contracting during the Korean War, when they shipped their boats to the West Coast by rail. In 1968, the Askes sold Shelburne Shipyard and in 1971 it was sold again, but it continues in business today. The yard is on Shelburne neck, at the extreme end of Harbor Road. See it from the air on Google here.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Delivered Notes
Built by Shelburne Shipyard
General Greene Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 75 1825
Winooski Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 136 1832
Burlington Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 190 1837
Saranac Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 166 1842
United States Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 240 1847
Boston Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 127 1851
Montreal Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 224 1856
Adirondack Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 251 1867
25841 Vermont Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 1,125 261 1871
126487 Chateaugay Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 743 196 1887 first iron-hulled ferry on Lake Champlain, Mount Washington
161944 Vermont Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 1,195 251 1903 converted to freighter 1945
203172 Ticonderoga Lake Champlain Transportation passenger Steamer 892 212 1906 later a museum in Shelburne
Built by Donovan Contracting
SC-1029 US Navy subchaser 148d 110 16 Nov 1942 to Free French 1944 as CH-123
SC-1030 US Navy subchaser 148d 110 16 Nov 1942 to Free French 1944 as CH-136
288900 YFT-3 US Navy Torpedo lighter 74d 85 1943 later Harry J
YFT-4 US Navy Torpedo lighter 74d 85 1943
YFT-5 US Navy Torpedo lighter 74d 85 1943
261794 YT-297 US Navy tugboat 70d 66 1943-44 later YTL-297, sold 1951 as J. T. Spellman, scrapped 1962
YT-298 US Navy tugboat 70d 66 1943-44 later YTL-298
YT-299 US Navy tugboat 70d 66 1943-44 later YTL-299
YT-300 US Navy tugboat 70d 66 1943-44 later YTL-300
SC-1504 US Navy subchaser 148d 110 31 May 1944 to USSR 1944 as BO-228
SC-1505 US Navy subchaser 148d 110 29 Jun 1944 to USSR 1944 as BO-234
SC-1506 US Navy subchaser 148d 110 21 Jul 1944 to USSR 1944 as BO-241
Built by Shelburne Harbor Ship & Marine Construction Co.
253785 Horace W. Corbin Lake Champlain Transportation ferry 446 178 1947 later Valcour 1949
US Navy motor boat 8d 35 1952-54 73 boats
US Navy LCVP 9d 36 1955-58 463 boats (NObs 3655)

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