Doullut & Williams

New Orleans LA

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.

USSB # O/N Name Customer Type GT Delivered Notes
Built by Doullut & Williams
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

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