William R. Trigg Co.
Richmond VA
Most recent update: November 27, 2017.
William R. Trigg founded the Richmond Locomotive Works and is said to have done "more to build up the manufacturing interests of Richmond than perhaps any other man". He created this shipyard in October 1898 after having won his first contract to build three torpedo boats and two torpedo boat destroyers for the US Navy. The company won other contracts between 1899 and 1901 but became insolvent, was placed in receivership in December 1902, and declared bankrupt in May 1903. William Trigg died in February 1903. The vessels under construction when the company was declared bankrupt were eventually completed by others or sold for their material value and the shipyard itself was sold at auction in July 1905. The shipyard was located on Chappell Island, at the mouth of the James-Kanawa Canal: most of the land today is Richmond's Great Shiplock Park.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | Tons | LOA | Delivered | Notes | |
| 1 | DD-4 | Dale | US Navy | destroyer | 420d | Oct 1902 | sold 1920 | |
| 2 | DD-5 | Decatur | US Navy | destroyer | 420d | May 1902 | sold 1920 | |
| 3 | TB-31 | Shubrick | US Navy | torpedo boat | 200d | Nov 1901 | sold 1920 | |
| 4 | TB-32 | Stockton | US Navy | torpedo boat | 200d | Nov 1901 | sunk as target 1916 | |
| 5 | TB-33 | Thornton | US Navy | torpedo boat | 200d | June 1902 | sold 1920 | |
| 6 | 116980 | Samuel N. Lapsley | Southern Presbyterian Church | missionary ship | 24 | May 1901 | KD package, sank in Congo May-03 | |
| 7 | C-17 | Galveston | US Navy | cruiser | 3,200d | Feb 1905 | completed by Norfolk NSY, sold 1933 | |
| 8 | Bull | William R. Trigg Co. | derrick scow | 1900 | for work on naval vessels | |||
| 9 | No. 7 | Tuscarora | Revenue Cutter Service | revenue cutter | 740d | Sep 1902 | decommissioned 1936 | |
| 10 | No. 8 | Mohawk | Revenue Cutter Service | revenue cutter | 1,150d | May 1904 | collision & sank off NJ 1917 | |
| 11 | 141802 | Lancaster | Pennsylvania R.R. Co. | tugboat | 223 | July 1902 | scrapped 1963 | |
| 12 | 161909 | Virginia | Chesapeake & Ohio RR Co. | steamer | 635 | Feb 1902 | scrapped 1951 | |
| 14 | 3930 | Berkeley | Old Dominion S.S. Co. | steamer | 1,075 | June 1902 | later Virginia 1923, scrapped 1947 | |
| 15 | Pennsylvania R.R. Co. | car float | 1902 | |||||
| 16 | Pennsylvania R.R. Co. | car float | 1902 | |||||
| 17 | Benyuard | USACE | dredge | 2,566 | 1904 | completed by Norfolk NSY, Sandchief 1948, scrapped 1957 | ||
| 18 | City of Richmond | lock gate(s) | ||||||
| 19 | 201645 | Captain A. F. Lucas | Standard Oil of California | tanker | 4,188 | Dec 1904 | completed by Roach, scrapped 1948 | |
| 20 | 200836 | Bristol/P.R.R. No. 7 | Pennsylvania R.R. Co. | tugboat | 223 | 1904 | completed by PRR, to USN 1917 as SP-1245, Princeton, NLD 1964 | |
| 21 | 200837 | Chester/P.R.R. No. 9 | Pennsylvania R.R. Co. | tugboat | 223 | 1904 | completed by PRR, to USN 1917 as SP-679, York, abandoned 1946 |