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7-574: General Engineering Company may refer to: General Engineering & Dry Dock Company , a shipbuilding company in Alameda, California, United States which was named General Engineering Company before 1923 General Engineering Company of Ontario (GECO), a munitions plant in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
14-567: 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 the U.S. Navy. The shipyard had four shipbuilding ways, which were designed for
21-534: 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 the Barnes and Tibbitts Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
28-610: 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 the World War II demand for ships General Engineering built: minesweepers and Net laying ships . General Engineering
35-557: The title General Engineering Company . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_Engineering_Company&oldid=1136312965 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages General Engineering %26 Dry Dock Company General Engineering & Dry Dock Company
42-717: 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 the United States Navy , primarily oceangoing minesweepers. At
49-519: 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 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,
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