Shelburne Shipyard
Shelburne VT
Most recent update: November 24, 2010.
The Shelburne Shipyard is one of our oldest, getting started in 1823. Its first vessel was the steamship General Greene, built for the newly chartered Lake Champlain Transportation Company in 1825, which owned the yard for 113 years. When World War II started, it was leased to Donovan Contracting Company, of St. Paul MN. After the war, it was sold to Jerry and Wendell Aske and the yard went from defense work to building private yachts, returning briefly to defense contracting during the Korean War, when they shipped their boats to the West Coast by rail. In 1968, the Askes sold Shelburne Shipyard and in 1971 it was sold again, but it continues in business today. The yard is on Shelburne neck, at the extreme end of Harbor Road. See it from the air on Google here.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Delivered | Notes | |
| Built by Shelburne Shipyard | ||||||||
| General Greene | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 75 | 1825 | ||||
| Winooski | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 136 | 1832 | ||||
| Burlington | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 190 | 1837 | ||||
| Saranac | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 166 | 1842 | ||||
| United States | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 240 | 1847 | ||||
| Boston | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 127 | 1851 | ||||
| Montreal | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 224 | 1856 | ||||
| Adirondack | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 251 | 1867 | ||||
| 25841 | Vermont | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 1,125 | 261 | 1871 | ||
| 126487 | Chateaugay | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 743 | 196 | 1887 | first iron-hulled ferry on Lake Champlain, Mount Washington | |
| 161944 | Vermont | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 1,195 | 251 | 1903 | converted to freighter 1945 | |
| 203172 | Ticonderoga | Lake Champlain Transportation | passenger Steamer | 892 | 212 | 1906 | later a museum in Shelburne | |
| Built by Donovan Contracting | ||||||||
| SC-1029 | US Navy | subchaser | 148d | 110 | 16 Nov 1942 | to Free French 1944 as CH-123 | ||
| SC-1030 | US Navy | subchaser | 148d | 110 | 16 Nov 1942 | to Free French 1944 as CH-136 | ||
| 288900 | YFT-3 | US Navy | Torpedo lighter | 74d | 85 | 1943 | later Harry J | |
| YFT-4 | US Navy | Torpedo lighter | 74d | 85 | 1943 | |||
| YFT-5 | US Navy | Torpedo lighter | 74d | 85 | 1943 | |||
| 261794 | YT-297 | US Navy | tugboat | 70d | 66 | 1943-44 | later YTL-297, sold 1951 as J. T. Spellman, scrapped 1962 | |
| YT-298 | US Navy | tugboat | 70d | 66 | 1943-44 | later YTL-298 | ||
| YT-299 | US Navy | tugboat | 70d | 66 | 1943-44 | later YTL-299 | ||
| YT-300 | US Navy | tugboat | 70d | 66 | 1943-44 | later YTL-300 | ||
| SC-1504 | US Navy | subchaser | 148d | 110 | 31 May 1944 | to USSR 1944 as BO-228 | ||
| SC-1505 | US Navy | subchaser | 148d | 110 | 29 Jun 1944 | to USSR 1944 as BO-234 | ||
| SC-1506 | US Navy | subchaser | 148d | 110 | 21 Jul 1944 | to USSR 1944 as BO-241 | ||
| Built by Shelburne Harbor Ship & Marine Construction Co. | ||||||||
| 253785 | Horace W. Corbin | Lake Champlain Transportation | ferry | 446 | 178 | 1947 | later Valcour 1949 | |
| US Navy | motor boat | 8d | 35 | 1952-54 | 73 boats | |||
| US Navy | LCVP | 9d | 36 | 1955-58 | 463 boats (NObs 3655) | |||