Pusey & Jones Gloucester City
Gloucester City NJ
Most recent update: August 24, 2021.
Pusey & Jones, of Wilmington DE, started a second shipyard for the WWI effort, in Gloucester City NJ: it was initially called Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company, but this was changed after only two ships to Pusey & Jones and again, after hull #19, to New Jersey Shipbuilding Company. The yard was closed after the war.
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USSB# | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | Delivered | Notes | |
1 | Req. | 215976 | Desdemona/Chestnut Hill | USSB | tanker | 4,767 | Mar 1918 | to USN as SP-2526, Caliche 1927, to Russia 1943 as Donbass, returned 1944, sunk as target 1947 |
2 | Req. | 216213 | John M. Connelly | USSB | tanker | 4,939 | Aug 1918 | to USN as SP-2703, Point Breeze 1927, scrapped 1946 |
3 | Req. | 216610 | Lucretia/Allentown | USSB | tanker | 4,938 | Sep 1918 | later J. W. Van Dyke 1924, Edwin R. Cox 1937, scrapped 1938 |
4 | Req. | 217210 | Charmian/Brandywine | USSB | tanker | 4,969 | Nov 1918 | later Macuto 1947, Recco 1949, scrapped 1955 |
5 | Req. | 218155 | Iras/Bessemer | USSB | tanker | 4,923 | June 1919 | scrapped 1948 |
6 | Req. | 218617 | Calpurnia/Sharon | USSB | tanker | 4,936 | Nov 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
7 | Req. | 217165 | War Serpent/Indianapolis | USSB | freighter | 8,164 | Dec 1918 | scrapped 1933 |
8 | Req. | 217794 | War Horse/Henry Clay | USSB | freighter | 8,166 | May 1919 | scrapped 1933 |
9 | Req. | 218801 | War Priest/Abraham Lincoln | USSB | freighter | 8,289 | Sep 1919 | scrapped 1933 |
10 | Req. | 219251 | War March/Andrew Jackson | USSB | freighter | 8,289 | Nov 1919 | converted to tanker Pan-Georgia 1939, scrapped 1946 |
11 | Req. | 219155 | Daniel Webster | USSB | freighter | 8,289 | Nov 1919 | converted to tanker Bulkoil 1936, Pan-Carolina 1938, scrapped 1946 |
12 | Req. | 219406 | John Adams | USSB | freighter | 8,289 | Dec 1919 | converted to tanker Pan-Virginia 1938, scrapped 1947 |
13 | AM-17 | Eider | US Navy | minesweeper | 950 | completed at Wilmington | ||
14 | AM-18 | Thrush | US Navy | minesweeper | 950 | completed at Wilmington | ||
15 | Req. | 219742 | Ethan Allen | USSB | freighter | 8,294 | Mar 1920 | Empire Puma 1940, Inchwells 1947, Point Clear 1951, Giacomo Piaggio 1952, Enrichetto 1954, Silvana 1958, scrapped 1959 |
16 | Req. | 219903 | Patrick Henry | USSB | freighter | 8,294 | Apr 1920 | Empire Steelhead 1940, Crete 1942, Vernicos Nicalaos 1947, El Greco 1951, scrapped 1952 |
17 | Req. | 220678 | William Penn | USSB | freighter | 8,168 | June 1920 | converted to tanker 1940, scrapped 1946 |
18 | Req. | 220211 | John Jay | USSB | freighter | 8,292 | June 1920 | later Warrior 1937, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
19 | Req. | 220441 | James Otis | USSB | freighter | 8,292 | Aug 1920 | later Ludington 1931, scrapped 1947 |
201 | Req. | 217440 | Castle Point | USSB | freighter | 3,301 | Feb 1919 | later Hamlin F. McCormick 1923, Chi Tung 1947, Marion 1951, Kali 1952, scrapped 1960 |
202 | Req. | 217590 | Castle Wood | USSB | freighter | 3,304 | Mar 1919 | later Arlyn 1925, torpedoed and lost 1941 |
203 | Req. | 217860 | Castle Town | USSB | freighter | 3,328 | June 1919 | later Lumbertown 1936, Coos Bay 1940, Anacapa 1942, Coos Bay 1946, George Olson 1947, wrecked in the Columbia River 1964 |