Birchfield Shipbuilding
Tacoma WA
Most recent update: August 31, 2021.
Birchfield Shipbuilding & Boiler Co., Inc., was located on the west side of the Blair Waterway, in the Port of Tacoma. The yard built some fishing vessels in the years immediately after the war but has been gone for a long time now.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | LDT | Delivered | Notes | |
| 572495 | WLI-65302 | USCG | tender | 39g | 1942 | later named Blueberry, sold 1976 as Blueberry | |
| 1 | Port Angeles | MARCOM | tugboat | 325 | 3 Apr 1942 | to USN 1942 as Hiawatha (YT-265), sold 1990 as Hiawatha, then Point San Pablo, Delta Lindsey | |
| 2 | Port Blakely | MARCOM | tugboat | 325 | 16 Mar 1942 | to USN 1942 as Pocahontas (YT-266), sold 1972 as Sea Lark, then Lark, Sea Lark | |
| 3 | Port Discovery | MARCOM | tugboat | 325 | 23 Dec 1942 | to USN 1942 as Pogatacut (YT-267), sold 1970, scrapped | |
| 4 | Port Ludlow | MARCOM | tugboat | 325 | 8 Mar 1943 | to USN 1942 as Red Cloud (YT-268), scrapped 1987 | |
| 5 | Port Madison | MARCOM | tugboat | 325 | 26 Apr 1943 | to USN 1942 as Sakarissa (YT-269), to MARAD 1974 as TD 64, at Amphib. Forces Memorial Museum | |
| 6 | Port Orchard | MARCOM | tugboat | 325 | 19 May 1943 | to USN 1942 as Santanta (YT-270), sold 1972 as Sea Fox, scrapped 1976 | |
| 7 | 276959 | FS-48 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | sold as Birchfield, then f/v Wm Fraser, Viking |
| 8 | FS-49 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | ||
| 9 | 254816 | FS-50 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | sold as Tolstoi, then Heron |
| 10 | FS-51 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | to the Philippines as Governor Roosevelt | |
| 11 | FS-52 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | ||
| 12 | FS-53 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | ||
| 13 | FS-54 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | to the Philippines as Governor Stimson | |
| 14 | FS-55 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | ||
| 15 | FS-91 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943-44 | to the Philippines as Princesa de Beliran | |
| 16 | FS-92 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943-44 | ||
| 17 | FS-93 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943-44 | ||
| 18 | FS-94 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943-44 | ||
| 19 | FS-95 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943-44 | to the Philippines as Governor Murphy | |
| 20 | FS-96 | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943-44 | ||
| one of the above | US Army | freighter | 168g | 1943 | sold 1947 as Tai Fung, barge 1950 | ||
| 21 | ST-680 | US Army | tugboat | 156g | 1944-45 | sold 19xx as Naytellinas | |
| 22 | ST-681 | US Army | tugboat | 156g | 1944-45 | ||
| 23 | ST-682 | US Army | tugboat | 156g | 1944-45 | ||
| 24 | ST-683 | US Army | tugboat | 156g | 1944-45 | sold 194x as Aspen, then Ocean Joy, Macduff 1950 | |
| 25 | ST-684 | US Army | tugboat | 156g | 1944-45 | ||
| 26 | ST-685 | US Army | tugboat | 156g | 1944-45 | ||
| 287111 | YTL-593 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | 1945 | sold 1961 as Renown | |
| YTL-594 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | 23 Oct 1945 | sold 1982 as YTL-594, John N | ||
| YTL-595 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | ||||
| 284109 | YTL-596 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | sold as Thor | ||
| YTL-597 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | ||||
| 251811 | YTL-598 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | sold as McClure Bay | ||
| YTL-599 | US Navy | tugboat | 53g | ||||
| Bluebell (WAGL-313) | USCG | tender | 178 | 24 Mar 1945 | later WLI-313 | ||
| 248779 | Chicken of the Sea | Harold Morgan | fishing boat | 476g | 1945 | later Southern Seas, sank 1968 in Panama | |
| 36 | Lisboa | tuna boat | 1946 | sank near the Galapagos 1947 | |||
| 37 | Commander | tuna boat | 1946 | sank near Islas Tres Marias | |||
| 38 | Seafarer | Al Davies | tuna boat | 1947 | sank near Isla Cedros | ||
| 252293 | Deep Sea | Deep Sea Trawlers Inc | fishing boat | 197g | 1947 | burned 2012 | |
| 255936 | Jimmy M | fishing boat | 35g | 1948 | later John Michael, Lynnie S | ||
| Zimovia | Wayne A. Davenport | fishing boat | 35g | 1948 | |||
| Alfred & Robert Erickson | fishing boat | 1948 | |||||
| 257472 | Situk | Libby, McNeil and Libby | fishing boat | 35g | 1949 | ||
| Esther B | fishing boat | 1949 | |||||
| Mexico | Carmelita II | fishing boat | 1950 | ||||
| 259560 | Libby No. 9 | Libby, McNeil and Libby | fishing boat | 28g | 1950 | ||
| 259682 | Libby No. 10 | Libby, McNeil and Libby | fishing boat | 28g | 1950 | ||
| 259683 | Libby No. 11 | Libby, McNeil and Libby | fishing boat | 28g | 1950 | ||
| 261726 | Libby No. 12 | Libby, McNeil and Libby | fishing boat | 27g | 1951 | ||
| 261920 | Libby No. 14 | Libby, McNeil and Libby | fishing boat | 27g | 1951 | ||
| 262149 | Jeanne Lynn | fishing boat | 115g | 1951 | |||
| RPC-C 13456-79 | US Navy | patrol craft | 1965-66 | 24 river patrol craft built for service in Viet Nam |