Terry Shipbuilding
Savannah GA
Most recent update: August 24, 2021.
Terry Shipbuilding was started in 1916 by Edward Terry, of Terry & Tench, a major construction company based in New York. The yard was on 100 acres of land at the north end of the Port Wentworth district of Savannah, where the sewage plant is now, and apparently had 16 building ways. It started off with contracts to build 20 composite cargo ships - wooden hulls with steel framing - and 10 steel tankers, but had only built six cargo ships and five tankers when the war ended. Concurrently Terry & Tench operated a yard at Long Island City, New York which built 20 steel barges and 12 steel tankers for use on the New York State Barge Canal. See its record here. The facility was reactivated in WWII by McEvoy Shipbuilding and built seven concrete tank barges for MARCOM.
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USSB # | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | Delivered | Notes | |
63 | 217339 | Oglethorpe | USSB | freighter | 2,492 | May 1919 | composite ship, scrapped 1925 | |
64 | 217724 | Baganito | USSB | freighter | 2,445 | Aug 1919 | composite ship, scrapped 1925 | |
65 | 218154 | Battonville | USSB | freighter | 2,440 | Aug 1919 | composite ship, scrapped 1925 | |
66 | 217991 | Borad | USSB | freighter | 2,441 | Aug 1919 | composite ship, scrapped 1925 | |
67 | 219181 | Tuwetanka | USSB | freighter | 2,440 | Sep 1919 | composite ship, scrapped 1925 | |
68 | 217118 | Quinnesco | USSB | freighter | 2,445 | Sep 1919 | composite ship, scrapped 1925 | |
111 | 1392 | 219899 | Darden | USSB | tanker | 5,189 | May 1920 | later Elizabeth Kellog 1929, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
112 | 1393 | 220335 | Dartford | USSB | tanker | 5,186 | July 1920 | later E. J. Nicklos 1929, Paco 1937, scrapped 1948 |
113 | 1394 | 220606 | Gladysbe | USSB | tanker | 5,186 | Sep 1920 | later Gertrude Kellog 1929, scrapped 1946 |
114 | 1395 | 220732 | Lilmae | USSB | tanker | 5,186 | Oct 1920 | later Chilsco 1927, Munger T. Ball 1935, torpedoed and lost 1942 |
115 | 1396 | 220860 | Pearldon | USSB | tanker | 5,186 | Dec 1920 | later W. D. Anderson 1923, J. J. Coney 1935, San Moritz 1947, scrapped 1955 |