Pusey & Jones Gloucester City ~ Shipbuilding History

Pusey & Jones Gloucester City

Gloucester City NJ

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.

	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