Hillstrom Shipbuilding

North Bend and Coos Bay OR

Most recent update: August 31, 2021.

Hillstrom Shipbuilding Company was started in North Bend by Bill Hillstrom in 1940, moved to 912 N. Front Street in Coos Bay after the war and closed in 1979.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Delivered Notes
Built at North Bend
P-218 US Army patrol boat 105 July 1943
P-219 US Army patrol boat 105 July 1943
251489 P-220 US Army patrol boat 105 July 1943 sold as Hattie D
251993 BSP-1777 US Army barge, SP 70 July 1943 sold as Grampus
267981 BSP-1778 US Army barge, SP 70 Aug 1943 sold as Alix
276382 BSP-1779 US Army barge, SP 70 Aug 1943 sold as South Bay
250720 BSP-1780 US Army barge, SP 70 Aug 1943 sold as Etolin
252305 BSP-1781 US Army barge, SP 70 Aug 1943 sold as Beaver
ARB-C 105362 ? US Navy crash boat 140 c100 1943 later Norman D, Alan
LT-518 US Army tugboat 282 127 June 1944 sold as Captain, abandoned in Vietnam
249867 LT-519 US Army tugboat 282 127 Sep 1944 sold 1946 as Sea Fox, scrapped 1975
Kalama USACE survey boat 79 1944
248586 Cygnet trawler 45 57 1945
249349 Nel Ron Dic trawler 31 51 1946
254486 The Goose Knutson Towboat Co tugboat 16 36 1947
Built at Coos Bay
274367 Kawliga trawler 11 33 1952
276650 Reef Fisher trawler 12 31 1953
285422 Captain Louie Knutson Towboat Co tugboat 28 43 1961
501228 Kangaroo Michael E Hodges trawler 39 50 1965 now Cape Alitak
298527 Rustler tugboat 13 43 1965 later Negotiator, Dispatcher
504404 Renegade W S Construction trawler 30 50 1966
29 518969 Coos Bay Coos Bay Towboat Co tugboat 85 71 1969
30 526744 Betty A yacht 118 70 1970
31 trawler 78 1970
32 553846 North Bend Coos Bay Towboat Co tugboat 85 66 1973
33 557771 Connie trawler 41 44 1974 now Ruby Lily
34 582900 Willamette Rebel Manson Construction offshore supply 28 41 1977 now Rebel
35 591482 Sleep Robber Burns Enterprises trawler 144 68 1978
36 Elusive MacDonald T&K trawler 143 c80 1979
37 609344 Norselander trawler 145 71 1979 now Let's Go
38 619796 Nordic Monarch Rasmussen & Ptnrs trawler 989 162 1980 later Yukon Princess, Clipper Epic

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