Doullut & Williams
New Orleans LA
Most recent update: August 24, 2021.
Milton P. Doullut was a steamboat captain, originally from Bordeaux. Famous in New Orleans for developing the 9th Ward's unique "steamboat houses" and the Doullut Market, he teamed up in 1907 with W. H. Williams, an engineer retired from the Army Corps of Engineers, to form a construction company called Doullut & Williams, which they expanded into shipbuilding for the duration of WWI. After the war, Doullut's son Paul and James P. Ewin took over management of the company, which became Doullut & Ewin. The shipyard was at the Lake Pontchartrain end of the Industrial Canal. I am pretty sure that this yard also built tugs and other commercial vessels but I can find no record of them.
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USSB # | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | Delivered | Notes | |
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1 | 1907 | 220621 | New Orleans | USSB | freighter | 6,631 | Nov 1920 | converted to diesel 1929, Exbrook 1940, New Orleans 1941, scrapped 1946 |
2 | 1908 | 220620 | Potter | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | Dec 1920 | converted to diesel 1929, sunk as a breakwater at Normandy 1944 |
3 | 1909 | 220961 | Wichita | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | Jan 1921 | converted to diesel 1929, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
4 | 1910 | 220962 | City of Elwood | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | Mar 1921 | converted to diesel 1929, Fortune (AVS 1) 1944, scrapped 1946 |
5 | 1911 | 221112 | Jeff Davis | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | Apr 1921 | converted to diesel 1929, scrapped 1947 |
6 | 1912 | 221110 | Galveston | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | Apr 1921 | converted to diesel 1929, sunk as a breakwater at Normandy 1944 |
7 | 1913 | 221111 | Ward | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | May 1921 | converted to diesel 1929, Exton 1940, Ward 1942, Supply (AVS 2) 1944, Ward 1946, scrapped 1948 |
8 | 1914 | 221113 | Oldham | USSB | freighter | 6,171 | June 1921 | converted to diesel 1929, scrapped 1946 |
169395 | Humble Oil No. 1 | Humble Oil | 125' tank barge | 253 | 1921 | |||
125' tank barge | 253 | 1921 | ||||||
125' tank barge | 253 | 1921 | ||||||
168601 | No. 415 | 175' tank barge | 595 | 1921 | ||||
175' tank barge | 595 | 1921 | ||||||
175' tank barge | 595 | 1921 | ||||||
175' tank barge | 595 | 1921 | ||||||
175' tank barge | 595 | 1921 | ||||||
175' tank barge | 595 | 1921 | ||||||
Built by Doullut & Ewin | ||||||||
AFD 24 | US Navy | drydock | 800 | 1944 | later AFDL-24, to the Philippines 1948 as YD-200 | |||
AFD 25 | US Navy | drydock | 800 | 1944 | later AFDL-25, sold 1997 | |||
AFD 26 | US Navy | drydock | 800 | 1944 | later AFDL-26, to Paraguay 1977 as DF 1 | |||
AFD 27 | US Navy | drydock | 800 | 1944 | later AFDL-27 | |||
AFD 28 | US Navy | drydock | 800 | 1944 | later AFDL-28, to Mexico 1978 | |||
AFD 29 | US Navy | drydock | 800 | 1944 | later AFDL-29, scrapped 1983 |