Vigor Portland

Portland OR

Most recent update: April 1, 2020.

The Swan Island Shipyard in Portland was originally an emergency yard, built with 8 ways in the fifth wave of shipbuilding expansion, with $23mm from MARCOM. The yard was one of the four specifically designed to build T-2 tankers. It was built on land belonging to the Port of Portland, which bought the yard after the war and operated it as a common-user ship repair facility until 1999, when it sold it to its principal tenant, Cascade General, Inc., who continued to market it as a repair yard until 2005, when they formed a joint venture with Oregon Iron Works called US Barge and began building barges, changing the name, first to US Fab and then to Vigor Fab. Since then, they have added the former Todd Seattle (now Vigor Seattle), Alaska Ship & Dry Dock and Seward Ship's Dry Dock (together now Vigor Alaska), Kvichak Marine (now Vigor Ballard), Oregon Iron Works (now Vigor Clackamas and Vigor Vancouver), Marine Industries Northwest (now Vigor Tacoma), and Washington Marine Repair (now Vigor Port Angeles). Visit the company here and see the Portland shipyard from the air on Google here.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Delivered Notes
Built by Cascade General
Esperanza Puerto Quetzal Power power barge 2004
Built by US barge
1 1205188 Hou'omaka Hou Young Brothers barge 4,511 326 15 Sep 2007
2 1206934 Left Coast Lifter American Bridge crane barge 7,695 384 28 Feb 2008
3 1208635 Maka'ala Young Brothers barge 4,505 326 25 Jun 2008
4 1214969 Kala'enalu Young Brothers barge 4,505 326 2 Dec 2008
5 1219456 Ha'aheo Young Brothers barge 4,511 326 18 Sep 2009
6 1214967 David Fanning Harley Marine tank barge 2,724 239 10 Dec 2008
7 1217419 Bernie Briere Harley Marine tank barge 2,724 239 2 Mar 2009
8 1218201 Lily Blair Harley Marine tank barge 2,724 239 1 Jun 2009
9 1219418 Nathan Schmidt Harley Marine tank barge 2,724 239 27 Jul 2009
10 1223665 Sixty Five Roses Harley Marine tank barge 6,699 404 17 Mar 2010
11 1228172 Anne Elizabeth Harley Marine tank barge 2,746 239 14 Oct 2010
12 1231400 Cauneq Northside Gas tank barge 364 155 25 Apr 2011
13 1235165 Betsy Arntz Harley Marine tank barge 2,724 239 30 Nov 2011
14 hull 73 Georgia Pacific covered barge 527 May 1912
15 mooring barge
16 1249384 Iliuliuk Bay Harley Marine barge 2,003 239 28 Jan 2014
Built by Vigor Fab
17 1249684 Freedom American Const'n. hopper barge 2,398 232 6 Apr 2014
18 King County Maint. barge 2014
19 1254584 Crown Point Tidewater B.L. tugboat 516 98 4 Aug 2015
20 1259541 Granite Point Tidewater B.L. tugboat 516 98 23 Feb 2016
21 1259618 Ryan Point Tidewater B.L. tugboat 516 98 23 Jun 2016
22 1251829 Fight Fanconi Anemia Harley Marine tank barge 6,685 404 8 Jul 2015
23 1255404 Fight A.L.S. Harley Marine tank barge 6,695 404 11 Feb 2016
Sea Hunter DARPA Drone ship 2016
Built by Vigor Industrial - Portland
137 1268451 Antril S Hyak Leasing tank barge 5,765 313 19 May 2016
138 1271009 Harvest Savage Marine ammonia barge 18,042 483 17 Jul 2017
OE Buoy Ocean Energy Ocean Buoy 3,525 2018

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