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 |