Pacific Bridge ~ Shipbuilding History

Pacific Bridge

Alameda CA

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. 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.

	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)