Emergency Shipyards

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Name (code)
Location
No. of ways
First delivery
Number of Liberty class deliveries
Alabama DryDock Company (AL) Mobile, AL
4
(for Libertys)
14-May-42 
(J.L.M. Curry)
 20 standard.
Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc. (BF) Baltimore, MD
16
30-Dec-41
(Patrick Henry)
 384 standard,
+1 ship damaged by fire and not delivered. 
Of these, 22 were delivered incomplete to the navy for conversion to hospital or troop ships, and one was delivered incomplete for conversion to a training ship.
California Shipbuilding Corporation (CA) Los Angeles, CA
14
22-Feb-42
(John C. Fremont)
 306 standard,
30 tankers.
Delta Shipbuilding Company (DE) New Orleans, LA
8
31-May-42
(William C.C. Claiborne)
 132 standard,
32 tankers,
24 colliers.
J.A. Jones Construction Company (JB) Brunswick, GA
6
07-May-43
(James M. Wayne)
 85 standard.
J.A. Jones Construction Company (JP) Panama City, FL
6
03-Mar-43
(E. Kirby Smith)
 66 standard,
8 tank transporters,
28 boxed aircraft transporters.
Kaiser Company (KV) Vancouver, WA
12
22-Jul-42
(George Vancouver)
 2 standard,
+ 8 incomplete, with propelling machinery installed by OR.
Marinship Corporation (MA) Sausolito, CA
6
31-Oct-32
(William A. Richardson)
 15 standard
New England Shipbuilding Corporation (NE)
East and West Yards originally separate as Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation (East) and  South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation (West).		 South Portland, ME 6 in East yard, 7 in West yard
(excluding Ocean Class)
30-Jun-42
(John Davenport)
 30  Ocean class ['British Liberty'] ,
236 standard,
8 boxed aircraft transporters.
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company (NC) Wilmington, NC
9
17-Feb-42
(Zebulon B. Vance)
 126 standard.
Oregon Ship Building Corporation  Portland, OR
11
27-Jan-42
(Meriwether Lewis)
 322 standard
+ 8 deliveries of ships delivered incomplete by KV.
Permenente Metals Corporation (Shipbuilding Division) No.1 Yard (P1) and No. 2 Yard (P2) Richmond, CA
7 in #1, 
 
 
 
 

10 in #2

 Yard #1:
(excluding Ocean Class)
20-Aug-42
(Edward Rowland Sill)

Yard #2:

23-Feb-42
(James Otis)
 Yard # 1:
     30  Ocean class ['British Liberty'], 
     138 standard
 
 

Yard # 2:
     351 standard
St. John's River Shipbuilding Company (SJ) Jacksonville, FL
6
30-Apr-43
(Ponce De Leon)
 82 standard
Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation (SE) Savannah, GA
6
13-Feb-43
(James Oglethorpe)
 88 standard
Todd-Houston Shipbuilding Corporation Houston, TX
9
27-May-42
(Sam Houston)
 208 standard
Walsh-Kaiser Company (WK) Providence, RI
6
12-Apr-43
(John Clark)
 10 standard
Rheem Manufacturing Company (RH) Providence, RI
6
13-Feb-43
(William Coddington)
 1 standard. This was the first of a 32-vessel contract. The contract was cancelled after Rheem proved unable to complete the yard facilities. New management under the Kaiser group of companies took over, when the yard became known as the Walsh-Kaiser yard.