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) |