Cargill
Port Savage MN
Most recent update: January 4, 2022.
Cargill had created a small shipyard alongside its grain elevators on the Hudson River, in Albany NY, to build an articulated barge, a concept that was quite a bit ahead of its time: this makeshift yard then built a 12,500-ton tanker. At the Navy's urging, Cargill then built a second yard just for the war effort: this yard was 14 miles from the Mississippi, cost $1,000,000 and at its peak it employed 3,500 people. See the site from the air on Google here.
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Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Delivered | Notes | ||
Built in Albany NY | ||||||||
Carneida | Cargill Inc. | Arctic barge | 1939 | three linked barges with the tug "Protector" in a V-shaped notch. | ||||
1 | Carlantic | Cargill Inc. | tanker | 7,517 | Nov 1941 | sold to Venezuela 1941 as "Victoria", torpedoed off Cape Hatteras 1942 but repaired and renamed "Culpeper", converted to barge 1961 | ||
Built in Port Savage MN | ||||||||
2 | AOG-6 | Agawam | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Dec 1943 | scrapped 1975 |
3 | AOG-7 | Elkhorn | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Jan 1944 | to Taiwan 1972 as Hsing Lung/Xing Long (AOG-516), struck by 2008 |
4 | AOG-8 | Genesee | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Mar 1944 | to Chile 1992 as Beagle (AOG-54), hulk 1982, sunk as target 1992 |
5 | AOG-9 | Kishwaukee | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Mar 1944 | sold 1979 for conversion to a fishing vessel |
6 | AOG-10 | Nemasket | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | May 1944 | to reserve 1961, scrapped 2006 |
7 | AOG-11 | Tombigbee | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | May 1944 | to Greece 1978 as Ariadni (A-414), laid up 2003 |
8 | DPC-607 | Bataan | D.P.C. | towboat | 1,132 | 165 | 1944 | sold 1947 as Sohio Latonia, Orleanian 1949, dredge |
9 | DPC-608 | Coral Sea | D.P.C. | towboat | 1,132 | 165 | 1944 | sold 1940s as Coral Sea, pump boat, scrapped 1977 |
10 | DPC-609 | Milne Bay | D.P.C. | towboat | 1,132 | 165 | 1944 | sold 1940s as Milne Bay, Allen B. Wood, dredge Dave Blackburn, scrapped 1977 |
11 | DPC-610 | Bou Arada | D.P.C. | towboat | 1,132 | 165 | 1944 | sold 1946 as Sohio Fleetwing, Avocet |
12 | DPC-611 | Tenaru River | D.P.C. | towboat | 1,132 | 165 | transferred to Dubuque | |
13 | AOG-48 | Chehalis | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Nov 1944 | exploded, burned and sank 1949 |
14 | AOG-49 | Chestatee | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Nov 1944 | scrapped 1963 |
15 | AOG-50 | Chewaucan | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Jan 1945 | to Colombia 1976 as Tumaco (BT 7) |
16 | AOG-51 | Maquoketa | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Feb 1945 | scrapped 1975 |
17 | AOG-52 | Mattabesset | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | May 1945 | scrapped 1969 |
18 | AOG-53 | Namakagon | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | May 1945 | to New Zealand 1962 as Endeavour (A-184), to Taiwan 1976 as Lung Chuan (AOG-507), decommissioned 2005 |
19 | AOG-54 | Natchaug | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | June 1945 | to Greece 1959 as Arethousa (A-377), sunk as target 2005 |
20 | AOG-55 | Nespelen | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | July 1945 | scrapped 1976 |
21 | AOG-56 | Noxubee | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Sep 1945 | scrapped 1976 |
22 | AOG-57 | Pecatonica | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Oct 1945 | to Taiwan 1961 as Chang Bai (AOG-307/507), struck by 2008 |
23 | AOG-58 | Pinnebog | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | Oct 1945 | to USAF-1960, to NDRF 1987, sold as Pinnebog, scrapped 1988 |
24 | AOG-59 | Wacissa | US Navy | tanker (T1) | 1,783d | 311 | May 1946 | to USAF-1957, scrapped 1964 |