Pacific Bridge

Alameda CA

Most recent update: August 31, 2021.

Pacific Bridge Company was one of the construction companies that formed part of Henry Kaiser's "Group of Six". It was located on the Oakland Alameda estuary at the corner of Clement Avenue and Chestnut Street, in an area that was residential: the homes that were there were either torn down or relocated. Today the site is occupied by the Alameda Marina, just west of the Naval Reserve Station. See it from the air on Google here. It seems to have been a very unusual facility, building ships two at a time in a graving dock. The yard stopped shipbuilding after the war but continued as a Pacific Bridge facility until 1969, when it was sold for redevelopment.

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Name Customer Type Tons LOA Delivered Notes
1 Charles H. Salter MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 Dec 1942 to Britain, wrecked and lost off Iceland 1946
2 Cyrus Sears MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, Skidby 1951, Borgfred 1951, Lise 1954, Aura 1955, Fernando 1960, Fata Morgana 1962, Giannis 1963, sank 1964
3 Benjamin Sherburn MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 Apr 1943 to Britain, Winga 1949, Rilda 1952, Raed 1968, scrapped 1972
4 Samuel V. Shreve MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, Jura 1949, Barcelona 1957, foundered 1963
5 Reuben Snow MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, Beechland 1949, Teresa Cosulich 1951, Agia Varvara 1963, exploded and sank 1968
6 Caleb Sprague MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, torpedoed and lost 1944 off Beachy Head
7 Benjamin Tay MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, Benue 1951, Anglo 1952, Lindvang 1965, Danaos 1969, Veta 1974, Agios Favourios III 1975, scrapped 1980
8 Charles Treadwell MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, Dundrum Bay 1950, Esito 1952, Sandra 1953, West Indies 1953, Esito 1954, wrecked and abandoned 1964
9 Samuel Very MARCOM freighter (N3) 2,800 250 May 1943 to Britain, Angusloch 1951, Changsung 1953, scrapped 1985
YFN-576 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 destroyed 1948
YFN-577 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-578 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 destroyed 1948
YFN-579 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 lost 1943
YFN-580 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 destroyed 1948
YFN-581 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-582 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 destroyed 1948
YFN-583 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-584 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-585 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-586 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 later YC-1219
YFN-587 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 later YC-1220
YFN-588 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-589 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 later YFP-4, lost
YFN-590 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-591 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-592 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 to MARAD 1947
YFN-593 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-594 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-595 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-596 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-597 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-598 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 disposed-of 1947
YFN-599 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-600 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-601 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-602 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943
YFN-603 US Navy lighter 138 110 1943 to MARAD 1947
YFD-20 US Navy drydock 7,000 622 Jan 1943 destroyed 1947
ABD-11 US Navy drydock Aug 1943
ABD-12 US Navy drydock Sep 1943
ABD-13 US Navy drydock Oct 1943
ABD-14 US Navy drydock Nov 1943
ARD-6 US Navy drydock 4,200 483 Apr 1943 to Pakistan 1961 as Peshawar
ARD-7 US Navy drydock 4,200 483 June 1943 scrapped 1992
ARD-8 US Navy drydock 4,200 483 Aug 1943 to Peru 1961 as ADF 107
ARD-9 US Navy drydock 4,200 483 Sep 1943 to Taiwan 1977 as Fo Wu 5
ARD-10 US Navy drydock 4,200 483 Oct 1943 in Tampico, Mexico
ARD-11 US Navy drydock 4,200 483 Oct 1943 to Mexico 1974
ARD-12 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Nov 1943 to Turkey 1987 as Havuz 7 (Y-127), struck 1998
ARD-13 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Nov 1943 to Venezuela 1977
ARD-14 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Dec 1943 to Brazil 1980
ARD-15 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Jan 1944 to Mexico 1971 as AR-15
ARD-16 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Jan 1944 scrapped 1973
ARD-17 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Feb 1944 to Ecuador 1977 as Amazonas (DF 81)
ARD-18 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Feb 1944 later Endurance, ARDM-3, laid up at Charleston NSY
ARD-19 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Mar 1944 later Oak Ridge, ARDM-1, to US Coast Guard 2002
ARD-20 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Mar 1944 later White Sands, AGDS 1, scrapped 1974
ARD-21 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Apr 1944 to MARAD 1947
ARD-22 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Apr 1944 later Windsor, to Taiwan 1976 as Fo Wu 6
ARD-23 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 May 1944 to Argentina 1992 as Y-1
ARD-24 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 May 1944 to Ecuador 1982 as Napo (DF 82)
ARD-25 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 May 1944 to Chile 1973 as Ingeniero Mery (131)
ARD-26 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 June 1944 later Alamogordo, ARDM-2, to Ecuador 2000
ARD-27 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 June 1944 scrapped 1974
ARD-28 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 July 1944 to Colombia as Capitan Rodriguez Zamora
ARD-29 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 July 1944 later Arco, to Iran 1977 as Dry-Dock No. 400
ARD-30 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Aug 1944 later San Onofre, to Mexico 2001
ARD-31 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Aug 1944 to US Air Force 1974
ARD-32 US Navy drydock 5,200 489 Aug 1944 to Chile 1960 as Mutilla (132)

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