International Shipbuilding

Orange TX and Pascagoula MS

Most recent update: March 10, 2016.

Henry Piaggio was a lumber dealer in Gulfport MS and a remarkable man, an Italian immigrant, who went to war with Germany two years before the U.S. did. His goal was to ship lumber from the Gulf Coast to Italy in his own fleet of fast sailing ships. His main yard was on Harbor Island in Orange TX, which he bought from F. H. Swails and which many years later became Levingston Shipbuilding. He also started a yard in Pascagoula MS, and another in Beaumont TX. They all closed in 1920.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT Built Notes
Built by F. H. Swails
207319 John Sealy tugboat 113 1917
208215 R. P. Clark tugboat 661 1917
215529 Robert P. Clark tugboat 291 1917
1 214819 City of Orange Henry Piaggio barkentine 1,664 Mar 1917 burned at Marseilles 1919
2 215246 City of Houston Henry Piaggio barkentine 1,519 July 1917 burned in the shipyard 1917
3 215584 City of Pensacola Henry Piaggio barkentine 1,705 Sep 1917 sunk by torpedo off Spain 1918
Built in Orange TX
4 215942 City of Gulfport Henry Piaggio barkentine 1,844 Mar 1918 burned at La Plata Roads 1919
5 216350 City of Mobile Henry Piaggio barkentine 1,975 July 1918 burned at Montevideo Roads 1919
6 216473 City of Beaumont Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,014 July 1918 built in Beaumont, Buccaneer 1928, deleted 1932
7 216909 City of Dallas Henry Piaggio barkentine 1,977 Dec 1918 built in Beaumont, burned at Genoa 1919
8 217160 City of Austin Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,237 Jan 1919 later SNIA Austin 1920, Mortara 1921, City of Austin 1923, Smith & Terry No. 4 1923, deleted 1936
9 217482 City of Galveston Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,258 Feb 1919 scrapped 1923
10 217696 City of Orleans Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,347 Apr 1919 foundered off Fenwick I. 1923
11 218275 City of Lafayette Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,451 June 1919 later Miramare 1920, deleted 1925
12 219238 City of Waco Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,342 Sep 1919 later Modena 1920, Columbia 1923, deleted 1927
13 219286 Macerata Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,352 Dec 1919 later H. W. Brown 1924, abandoned 1936 in Bayonne NJ
14 219468 Monfalcone Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,418 Sep 1920 later fishing tender 1928
Built in Pascagoula MS
217836 City of Pascagoula Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,354 Mar 1919 burned off Genoa 1921
City of Biloxi Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,422 June 1919 burned off Mobile 1919
219255 City of Jackson Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,422 Sep 1919 later Mantova 1920, deleted 1927
219299 City of Vicksburg Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,422 1919 later Marsala 1920, deleted 1944
220344 City of ? Henry Piaggio barkentine 2,422 1919 later Molfetta 1920
Torino Henry Piaggio steamer 4,600 1920 completed 1938 as Amsco, to Britain 1940 as Empire Otter, lost 1941
Trento Henry Piaggio steamer 4,600 1920 completed 1941 as Philae (Norway), Thorscape, Ledaal, Sudelmar, scrapped 1974
Trieste Henry Piaggio steamer 4,600 1920 completed 1941 as Paderewski (Poland), lost 1942

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