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Newcomb Lifeboat

Hampton VA

This shipyard was originally a repair yard called The Chesapeake Gas Engine Company. When war approached, it was acquired by The Newcomb Lifeboat Company, of Richmond VA, expanded and renamed The Hampton Shipbuilding & Marine Railway Company. This entity failed, however, after the war ended. The yard was at the foot of what is now called Newcombe Avenue, on the south side of Sunset Creek.

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O/N Customer Type Tons LOA Delivered Notes
223430 SC-218 US Navy subchaser 135 110 9 Feb 1918 sold 1921 as Hiwal, to USN 1942 as YP-355, to MARAD 1947
SC-219 US Navy subchaser 135 110 19 Feb 1918 burned and sank 1918
224532 SC-220 US Navy subchaser 135 110 13 Mar 1918 sold 1921 as Eleanor
SC-221 US Navy subchaser 135 110 13 Mar 1918 sold 1921
SC-222 US Navy subchaser 135 110 13 Mar 1918 sold 1921

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