Terry Shipbuilding ~ Shipbuilding History

Terry Shipbuilding

Savannah GA

Most recent update: August 24, 2021.

Terry Shipbuilding was started in 1916 by Edward Terry, of Terry & Tench, a major construction company based in New York. The yard was on 100 acres of land at the north end of the Port Wentworth district of Savannah, where the sewage plant is now, and apparently had 16 building ways. It started off with contracts to build 20 composite cargo ships - wooden hulls with steel framing - and 10 steel tankers, but had only built six cargo ships and five tankers when the war ended. Concurrently Terry & Tench operated a yard at Long Island City, New York which built 20 steel barges and 12 steel tankers for use on the New York State Barge Canal. See its record here. The facility was reactivated in WWII by McEvoy Shipbuilding and built seven concrete tank barges for MARCOM.

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	USSB #	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	Delivered	Notes
	63	217339	Oglethorpe	USSB	freighter	2,492	May 1919	composite ship, scrapped 1925
	64	217724	Baganito	USSB	freighter	2,445	Aug 1919	composite ship, scrapped 1925
	65	218154	Battonville	USSB	freighter	2,440	Aug 1919	composite ship, scrapped 1925
	66	217991	Borad	USSB	freighter	2,441	Aug 1919	composite ship, scrapped 1925
	67	219181	Tuwetanka	USSB	freighter	2,440	Sep 1919	composite ship, scrapped 1925
	68	217118	Quinnesco	USSB	freighter	2,445	Sep 1919	composite ship, scrapped 1925
111	1392	219899	Darden	USSB	tanker	5,189	May 1920	later Elizabeth Kellog 1929, torpedoed and lost 1942
112	1393	220335	Dartford	USSB	tanker	5,186	July 1920	later E. J. Nicklos 1929, Paco 1937, scrapped 1948
113	1394	220606	Gladysbe	USSB	tanker	5,186	Sep 1920	later Gertrude Kellog 1929, scrapped 1946
114	1395	220732	Lilmae	USSB	tanker	5,186	Oct 1920	later Chilsco 1927, Munger T. Ball 1935, torpedoed and lost 1942
115	1396	220860	Pearldon	USSB	tanker	5,186	Dec 1920	later W. D. Anderson 1923, J. J. Coney 1935, San Moritz 1947, scrapped 1955