37°46′33″N 122°15′03″W / 37.775815°N 122.250845°W / 37.775815; -122.250845
6-635: General Engineering & Dry Dock Company was a shipbuilding and ship repair company in Alameda, California that was active from the 1920s through the 1940s. The company built ships for the Southern Pacific Railroad and the United States Coast Guard in the late 1920s and early 1930s and took part in the World War II shipbuilding boom, making diesel-propelled steel hulled auxiliaries for
12-705: The Barnes and Tibbitts Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. was incorporated in California. On 1 November 1922 the General Engineering and Dry Dock Company was incorporated in California. On 11 March 1946 the General Engineering and Dry Dock Corporation was incorporated in Delaware. Alameda, California Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
18-613: The United States Navy , primarily oceangoing minesweepers. At the beginning of World War II , the U.S.Navy started the program for expand the navy. The U.S.Navy used two separate shipbuilding and shiprepair sites to create the Naval Industrial Reserve Shipyard (NIRS) Alameda. The first was the General Engineering and Dry Dock Company. The company worked under contract NObs-344 and built small warships for
24-523: The World War II demand for ships General Engineering built: minesweepers and Net laying ships . General Engineering was opened in 1919 as Barnes & Tibbitts shipyard by J. D. Barnes and W. G. Tibbitts. Mr. Barnes sold his interest to Tibbitts in 1922 and changed the company name to General Engineering & Dry Dock Company. Tibbitts purchased Hanlon Dry Dock and Shipbuilding in Oakland in 1928. By 1940
30-513: The U.S. Navy. The shipyard had four shipbuilding ways, which were designed for the simultaneous construction of several ships. In 1946, the U.S. Navy ceased contract with company. The second portion of the Site was to the east of the shipbuilding company. It was purchased from March 24 to July 7, 1942. General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipbuilding company started in Oakland, California . To support
36-599: The site of the old Hanlon yard (foot of 5th Ave) was occupied by Hurley Marine Shipyard , but in 1933 it had still belonged to General Engineering. After World War II, the shipyards closed in 1948. The shipyard was located at 1805 Clement Ave, Alameda, California. The site is now the Alameda Marina and Island Yacht Club. Office, machine shop and general repairs at 1100 Sansome Street, San Francisco. 37°48′02″N 122°24′09″W / 37.80046°N 122.40253°W / 37.80046; -122.40253 On 14 March 1918
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