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Other Pre-WWI Shipbuilders

On The Pacific Coast

Most recent update: October 8, 2013.

This table attempts to cover those other shipbuilders located on the Pacific Coast that were active in the years between the Civil War and World War One.

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Builder Location O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
California
Barnes & Tibbetts Alameda CA Carolyn Frances Western Whaling & Trading Co freighter 569 1918 aux schooner, Charles Brower 1925, Choukotka 1928, deleted 1948
Birch, William H. San Francisco CA Nunivak US Revenue Service 486 1899 sold 1901
Boole & Braton San Francisco CA Ajax Oregon Coal & Nav Co freighter 836 1888 wrecked Blunt's Reef, San Francisco 1890
Boole & Son Oakland CA Prentiss J. D. Gray & Co freighter 406 1901 later Exito 1934, Prentiss 1936, reduced to a barge 1939
Boole & Son Oakland CA A. H. Payson freighter 158 1902
Boole, G. San Francisco CA Lahaina Hind, Rolph & Co. freighter 1901
Boole, G. San Francisco CA Cosmopolis Higgins & Collins freighter 366 1887 later Kauai 1895, wrecked Mahukona, near Honolulu 1913
Boole, G. San Francisco CA Rival Blair, S. freighter 426 1888 abandoned c1920
Boole, G. San Francisco CA Del Norte J. K. C. Hobbs freighter 301 1888 later Hawaii 1889, scrapped 1904
Boole, W.A. Oakland CA Sibyl Marston Sibyl Marston Co freighter 1,000 1906 wrecked Surf 1909
Brusstar, W.S. Oakland CA Avarua freighter 146 1916
Central Pacific RR Oakland CA Piedmont ferry 1,854 1883 scrapped 1944
Collyer, W. San Francisco CA James M. Donohue San Francisco & N Pacific Railway Co passenger 730 1875 scrapped 1924
Collyer, W. San Francisco CA Newark Southern Pacific RR Co ferry 1,237 1877 later Sacramento 1923, sold 1955 as a fishing barge off Redondo Beach
Collyer, W. San Francisco CA Bay City Southern Pacific RR Co ferry 1,283 1878 scrapped 1929
Coronado IW Coronado CA Silver Gate San Diego & Coronado Ferry Co ferry 528 1888 scrapped 1920
Doe, C.P. Wilmington CA Eureka C. P. Doe, San Francisco freighter 484 1900 wrecked near Point Reyes 1915
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA President Alaska Packers' Assn freighter 377 1895 last seen in El Salvador 1907
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Grace Dollar Dollar, R. freighter 429 1898 later Hardy 1913, San Antonio 1919, scrapped 1936
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Ruth A. W. Beadle & Co freighter 377 1898 wrecked Fisherman's Bay 1903
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Samoa J. R. Hanify & Co freighter 377 1898 wrecked San Francisco harbor 1913
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Newburg Pollard & Dodge freighter 450 1898 wrecked Bodega 1918
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Richmond tugboat 135 1900
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Chilkat freighter 172 1901
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Sea Rover tugboat 199 1902
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA Arabs tugboat 155 1904
Fulton, C.E. Los Angeles CA Aliceil Swift & Co freighter 709 1916 wrecked Point Loma 1916
Hall Brothers San Francisco CA Rush US Revenue Service cutter 300 1885 sold 1913
Hansen & Fraser San Francisco CA Caspar Caspar Lumber Co freighter 300 1888 wrecked Punta Arenas 1897
Hanson & Fraser San Francisco CA Hermosa Wilmington Tptn Co passenger 455 1889 abandoned 1902
Hay & Wright Alameda CA Charles Nelson C. Nelson freighter 629 1898 burned 1913
Hay & Wright Alameda CA Hanalei Inter-Island S.N.Co Ltd freighter 666 1901 wrecked Duxbury Reef, off Bolinas 1914
Hay & Wright Alameda CA Kona Hind, Rolph & Co. freighter 1901
Hay, A. San Francisco CA Noyo Noyo Lumber Co freighter 316 1887 foundered off Point Reyes 1918
Hay, A. San Francisco CA Pasadena Kerckhoff, Cuzner & Co freighter 300 1887 scrapped 1935
Hay, A. San Francisco CA W. L. Hardison Mission Transfer Co freighter 453 1888 burned 1989
Hay, A. San Francisco CA National City C. A. Hooper & Co freighter 491 1888 deleted 1924
Hay, A. San Francisco CA Farrallon Dolbeer & Carson freighter 750 1888 wrecked Illiamna Bay 1910
Hay, A. San Francisco CA Point Loma C. A. Hooper & Co freighter 310 1888 wrecked Long Beach 1896
Hay, A. San Francisco CA Truckee Truckee Lumber Co freighter 417 1890 wrecked Umpqua River 1897
Marshall, G. B. Antioch CA G. B. Marshall 1909
Muller, W. Wilmington CA Hermosa Wilmington Tptn Co freighter 483 1902 burned near Punta Arenas 1935
Muller, W. San Pedro CA Cabrillo Wilmington Tptn Co freighter 611 1904 deleted 1959
Muller, W. Wilmington CA John N. Stewart tugboat 120 1926
North Shore RR Tiburon CA Ukiah North Shore RR Co ferry 2,564 1890 later Eureka 1921, preserved in San Francisco 1957
North, J.W. San Francisco CA Yosemite passenger 1,525 1862 wrecked near Bremerton 1909
Petersen, A. Raymond CA Solano SS-Solano Co freighter 943 1913 later Oregon Coast 1943, burned Salina Cruz 1946
Peterson, A. Raymond CA Mukilteo Charles Nelson Co freighter 1,103 1915 scrapped 1937
Reed, A. Fort Bragg CA Sequoia J. S. Kimball Co freighter 411 1898 wrecked near Humboldt Bar 1907
Renck & Stone Oakland CA Palawan C. H. Kroll, San Francisco freighter 818 1918 aux schooner, burned off Hango 1932
Robertson, J. Benicia CA La Merced Standard Oil of California freighter 1,696 1917 aux schooner, scrapped 1965
Robertson, J. Benicia CA Oronite Standard Oil of California freighter 1,704 1918 aux schooner, Aneiurong 1925, scrapped 1932
San Francisco SB Redwood City CA Faith San Francisco S.S. Co freighter 3,427 1918 deleted 1922
Southern Pacific Oakland CA Melrose Southern Pacific RR Co ferry 2,662 1908 wrecked off White Point, Los Angeles 1932
Southern Pacific Oakland CA Thoroughfare Southern Pacific RR Co ferry 2,620 1912 scrapped 1935
Southern Pacific Oakland CA Contra Costa Southern Pacific RR Co ferry 5,373 1914 scrapped 1934
Southern Pacific SY Oakland CA Alameda 2,302 1914
Turner, M. San Francisco CA Dora Alaska Commercial Co freighter 198 1880 wrecked Alert Bay 1920
Turner, M. Benicia CA Karluk freighter 321 1884 crushed in ice off Herald Is 1914
Turner, M. Benicia CA Bertha Karluk Packing Co freighter 597 1888 wrecked Uyak Bay 1915
Turner, M. Benicia CA Eclipse freighter 211 1900
Turner, M. Benicia CA Gazelle freighter 151 1901 wrecked 1909
White, C.G. San Francisco CA Santa Maria freighter 344 1884 sold in Peru 1894
White, C.G. San Francisco CA Alcatraz freighter 256 1887
White, C.G. San Francisco CA South Coast West Coast S.S. Co freighter 302 1887 missing - sailed Coos Bay 1930
White, C.G. San Francisco CA Encinal Southern Pacific RR Co ferry 2,014 1888 scrapped 1930
White, C.G. Alameda CA Albion J. S. Kimball Co freighter 319 1892 wrecked near Stewart's Point CA-1913
White, C.G. Alameda CA Rosalie J. J. Ebert passenger 319 1893 burned Seattle 1918
Whitelaw, T.P.H. Alameda CA Whitelaw T.P.H.Whitelaw freighter 363 1895 burned Skagway 1898
Wilmington SB San Pedro CA Ghislaine Soc Gen des Houilles & Agglomeres freighter 1,517 1917 later Whitney Olson 1922, Catherine II 1947, Fire Bird 1948, scrapped 1949
Wilmington SB San Pedro CA Lucinda Hanify J. R. Hanify & Co freighter 1,517 1917 later Utique 1918, Thomas Crowley 1922, Jane Nettleton 1925, scuttled 1937
Wilmington CA Warrior freighter 122 1901
Wilmington CA Santa Rosa Island freighter 140 1903
Wilmington CA Vaquero freighter 231 1913
Oregon
Columbia EW Portland OR Chiquimula M. T. Snyder freighter 687 1917 aux schooner, abandoned 1941
Columbia EW Portland OR Tempate Tempate Ship Corp freighter 698 1917 aux schooner, wrecked Hog Cay, Bahamas 1923
Columbia EW Portland OR Guanacaste M. C. Keith freighter 632 1917 aux schooner, made into a barge 1924
Columbia EW Portland OR Diria Diria Ship Corp freighter 1,492 1917 aux schooner, foundered Guantanamo Bay 1919
Columbia EW Portland OR Louise Bryn Pacific Motor Schooner Corp freighter 821 1918 aux schooner, Pinthia 1920, scrapped 1922
Columbia EW Portland OR Elvira Stolt Cia Naviera freighter 813 1918 aux schooner, wrecked Pupug, Bohol Is 1924
Elmore Fish Canning Astoria OR R. P. Elmore Elmore & Sanborn Fisheries passenger 1890 Tug 1901, burned 1922 but rebuilt, Kiket 1967, Elmore 1982, live-aboard in BC
Heuckendorff Prosper OR Wellesley Wellesley Co freighter 709 1907 burned and scrapped 1942
Heuckendorff Prosper OR Bowdoin Bowdoin Co freighter 756 1907 wrecked False Cape, Nicaragua 1917
Kiernan & Kern Portland OR Katia Katia S.S. Corp freighter 2,239 1918 later Katiagallus 1920, Katia 1921, burned Suez Roads 1924
Kruse North Bend OR Beda freighter 370 1883 foundered off Cape Perpetua 1886
Kruse, E.T. Marshfield OR Casco Swayne & Hoyt freighter 569 1906 wrecked Piedras Blancas 1913
Muller, W. Prosper OR Coquille River Sudden, R. freighter 415 1896 later Winchester 1925, foundered Oakland 1932
Oregon IW Portland OR Corwin US Revenue Service cutter 227 1876 sold 1900
Pacific SB Marshfield OR Marshfield C. A. Hooper & Co freighter 388 1901 later Bertie M. Hanlon 1920, foundered Alameda 1939
Pacquet, J. Portland OR Arrow Arrow Navigation passenger 318 1903 deleted 1925
Price, J. H. Bandon OR Daisy Daisy S.S. Co freighter 679 1907 later Thos. H. Elliott 1935, Redwood 1935, burned off Eureka 1939
Price, J. H. Bandon OR Gleaner Gardiner Mill Co tugboat 154 1908 later ST 216, Erik Foss 1952
Price, J. H. St Helens OR Celilo C. R. McCormick Co freighter 943 1913 scrapped 1945
Price, J. H. St Helens OR Henry J. Biddle freighter 229 1913
Price, J. H. Seattle WA Donna Lane freighter 2,185 1919 scrapped 1947
Price, J. H. Seattle WA Muriel freighter 2,220 1920 later Z. R. 3 1926, scuttled as breakwater Oyster Bay BC 1942
Reed, H. R. Coquille OR Homer C. H. Butler & Co freighter 501 1891 barge 1938, deleted 1944
Reed, H. R. Coos Bay OR Santa Ana A. W. Beadle & Co freighter 767 1900 deleted 1935
Reed, H. R. Bay City OR Arctic J. S. Kimball Co freighter 392 1901 wrecked Point Arena 1922
Reed, H. R. Marshfield OR Coos Bay freighter 545 1884 wrecked Ventura CA-1914
Simpson, A. M. North Bend OR Brunswick C. A. Hooper & Co freighter 436 1898 burned at Puntarenas 1947
Simpson, A. M. North Bend OR Mandalay Simpson Lumber Co freighter 438 1900 wrecked Klamath River 1918
Smith Bros Watson Portland OR Tacoma ferry 1,362 1884 later M.T. No. 6 1918, in collision and sank 1949
Sorensen, E. Portland OR Yaquina Z. J. Hatch & D. S. Suthill freighter 356 1881 wrecked Hueneme Bar 1897
Steffen, J. F. Portland OR Sehome Oregon Railway & Nav Co passenger 692 1889 rammed and sunk in San Pablo Bay, Cal. 1918
Steffen, J. H. Portland OR Victorian Union Pacific RR Co passenger 1,504 1891 scrapped 1913
Timberman, Max Marshfield OR Hilda 1906
Watson Bros Astoria OR Wahkeena C. R. McCormick & Co freighter 1,030 1916 wrecked Aberdeen WA 1928
Whelan, F. Astoria OR General Miles tugboat 137 1882 later Willapa 1891, Bellingham 1903, scuttled by fire 1950
Willamette Portland OR H. B. Kennedy H. B. Kennedy passenger 499 1909 later Seattle 1927, barge 1946
Astoria OR General Miles passenger 331 1891 later Gedney 1893, scrapped 1930
Washington
Andersen SB Seattle WA Rose (WAGL-242) US Revenue Service tender 567 1916 sold 1948
Blanchard & Wheeler Tacoma WA Alice Blanchard Blanchard Transit Co freighter 542 1890 later Chico 1902, wrecked Shelter Cove, Cal., 1906
Elliott Bay Seattle WA Trolltind Anglo-Norwegian Shipping freighter 2,175 1918 deleted 1926
Elliott Bay Seattle WA Kirketind freighter 2,205 1919 later Wm. Donovan 1920, scrapped 1941
Elliott Bay Seattle WA Semmeltind freighter 2,170 1919 later Friedland 1921, City of Nome 1924, burned Aberdeen WA 1927
Hanson Shipyard Seattle WA Katahdin Anacortes Packing tugboat 1899 later Catherine Foss
Haskell & Crawford Tacoma WA Alice 1897
Heath, E. W. Everett WA Majestic Thompson Steamboat Co ferry 657 1901 later Whatcom 1904, City of Bremerton 1922, scrapped 1938
Heath, E. W. Tacoma WA Clallam Puget Sound Nav Co passenger 672 1903 foundered off Smith Is 1904
Heath, E. W. Tacoma WA Jefferson Alaska S.S. Co freighter 1,615 1904 scrapped 1925
Heath, E. W. Port Blakely WA Great Bear J. Burden & L. L. Lane schooner 367 1916 foundered near Pinnacle Rock, Bering Sea 1916
Johnson & Blanchard Seattle WA Kuskokwim River Westward Nav Co freighter 643 1916 Latyer Portland 1917, Admiral Knight 1919, burned Straits of Georgia 1919
King & Winge Seattle WA Utopia Union Transit Co. passenger 423 1893 burned Richmond Beach, Wash. 1929
King & Winge Seattle WA Samson Puget Sound Nav. Co. freighter 328 1903 deleted 1931
King & Winge Seattle WA Linda Kay freighter 286 1903
King & Winge Seattle WA King & Winge schooner 1914
King & Winge Seattle WA Perdita freighter 286 1903
Lake's Yard Ballard WA J. R. McDonald Pennington Nav Co freighter 280 1890 later Cassiar 1901, J. R. McDonald 1923, burned Sequim Bay, Wash., 1940
McWhinney, W. H. Aberdeen WA G. C. Lindauer Wilson Bros & Co freighter 453 1902 wrecked Umpqua 1924
McWhinny Starret Hoquiam WA Tamalpais E. K. Wood Lumber Co freighter 574 1906 wrecked Moss Landing 1931
Mitchell, J. Seattle WA Alice Gertrude J. R. Thompson freighter 413 1898 wrecked Clallam Bay 1907
Mitchell, J. F. T. Seattle WA George E. Starr L. M. Starr freighter 472 1879 deleted 1920
Mortensen, L. Skamokawa WA Michigan W. L. Colville freighter 567 1888 wrecked Bonilla Point 1893
National SB Seattle WA Apex L. Wakefield freighter 762 1917 later Okhotsk 1928, burned Petropavlovsk 1930
National SB Seattle WA Brisk Minehaha Motor Schooner Corp freighter 2,152 1918 aux schooner, burned 1920
Pacific Steel barge Everett WA City of Everett whaleback 2,504 1894 lost in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico 1923
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Benowa Govt. of Australia freighter 3,093 1918 scrapped 1923
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Babinda Govt. of Australia freighter 3,099 1918 burned Santa Cruz CA-1923
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Bundarra Govt. of Australia freighter 3,016 1918 hulked Sydney 1924
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Bethanga Govt. of Australia freighter 3,014 1918 scuttled by fire off Sydney 1930
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Birriwa Govt. of Australia freighter 2,989 1918 hulked Sydney 1923
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Bellata Govt. of Australia freighter 2,959 1918 hulked Sydney 1922
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Boobyalla Govt. of Australia freighter 3,100 1919 burned Victoria BC 1929
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Berringa Govt. of Australia freighter 3,007 1919 scuttled off Sydney 1922
Patterson M'Donald Seattle WA Balcatta Govt. of Australia freighter 3,109 1919 later Presidente Alessandri 1923, burned Tocopilla 1923
Petersen, A. Aberdeen WA Oregon Det Forenede D/S freighter 989 1916 deleted 1953
Peterson, N. C. Everett WA Nellie Washington Tug & barge tugboat 27 1901 later Bee
Peterson, T. H. Port Madison WA Lakme G. S. Hinsdale freighter 529 1888 abandoned Oakland Creek, Cal., 1922
Sloan & Hill Seattle WA San Juan freighter 284 1904
Springer, Nicholas A. Aberdeen WA Florence B. 1907
Port Townsend WA Scout US Revenue Service cutter 22 1896 sold 1915
Everett WA City of Everett freighter 212 1900 later Intrepid
Ballard WA Charles Counselman tugboat 123 1900 later Willapa 1891, Bellingham 1892, burned Seattle 1950
Seattle WA Heather USCG tender 730 1903 to US Army 1940
Lopez WA Calcite John McMillin yacht 1907 later Nancy Foss 1939, Nancy Bear 1975
Seattle WA tugboat 1912 later Peggy Foss 1923
Washington Marine Seattle WA Washington Washington Marine Co freighter 520 1906 wrecked Eureka 1932
Washington Sg Corp Seattle WA Tacoma Skibs A/S Tacoma freighter 1,608 1917 aux schooner, Helem B. Stirling 1921, foundered Three Kings Is 1922
West & Slade Aberdeen WA Aberdeen Beadle Bros freighter 499 1899 wrecked outside Golden Gate 1916
White, C.H. Everett WA John S. Kimball Kimball S.S. Co freighter 1,588 1900 later James Dollar 1903, Santa Clara 1905, wrecked Coos Bay 1915
White, G.I. Everett WA Johan Poulsen SS-Johan Poulsen Co freighter 650 1906 later Evelyn Berg 1934, Chatham 1938, burned Ward's Cove, near Ketchikan, 1938
Other
Whidden, G.R. New Whatcum General Frisbie Monticello S.S. Co passenger 544 1901 later Commander 1930, houseboat on Lake Washington 1967

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