USRC Tahoma , was a steel-hull flush deck cutter that served in the United States Revenue Cutter Service from 1909 to 1914 with the Bering Sea Patrol and was the sister ship to the USRC Yamacraw .
16-574: USRC Tahoma was launched on 10 October 1908 by New York Shipbuilding at Camden, New Jersey . She was commissioned into the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service after outfitting at Arundel Cove, Maryland on 25 March 1909. Since she was to serve with the Bering Sea Patrol , she made the trip across the Atlantic Ocean and made a coaling stop at the Azores . While visiting Gibraltar she received orders from
32-531: A site there failed. The company then explored other potential sites as far south as Virginia, particularly in the Delaware River area, and ultimately chose a location in the southern part of Camden, New Jersey . Site selection considered the needs of the planned application of bridge-building practices of prefabrication and assembly-line production of ships in covered ways. Construction of the plant began in July 1899;
48-668: A special meeting of the company's stockholders ratified sale of the "fifteen million dollar plant" to a group of companies composed of American International Corporation , International Mercantile Marine Co. , W. R. Grace and Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company . From about 1933 to 1937 the shipyard was part of Errett Lobban Cord 's business empire. New York Ship's unusual covered ways produced everything from aircraft carriers , battleships , and luxury liners to barges and car floats . During World War I , New York Ship expanded rapidly to fill orders from
64-481: Is still in use today in the former Philadelphia Navy Yard’s dry dock number 3. Ships built by New York Ship include: An Athletic team for the 16,000 employees was created in the 1910s. 39°54′39″N 75°7′20″W / 39.91083°N 75.12222°W / 39.91083; -75.12222 American International Corporation American International Corporation was an American investment trust founded in 1915 by Frank Vanderlip ; Willard Straight
80-548: The U.S. Navy , the United States Merchant Marine , the United States Coast Guard , and other maritime concerns. At its peak during World War II, NYSB was the largest and most productive shipyard in the world. Its best-known vessels include the destroyer USS Reuben James (DD-245) , the cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) , the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) ,
96-757: The United States Department of the Treasury to steam to Alexandrette in the Ottoman Empire to help calm American expatriate nerves during local civil unrest. Tahoma remained off the Ottoman coast for 13 days before resuming a course for the Suez Canal . After making port calls at several locations in the Pacific Ocean, she arrived at Port Townsend , Washington , on 23 August 1909. The Tahoma participated in
112-554: The United States Maritime Administration and the U.S. Navy. In 1959, the yard launched the NS Savannah , the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship. The yard launched its last civilian vessel ( SS Export Adventurer ) in 1960, and its last naval vessel, USS Camden , was ordered in 1967. The company's final completed submarine was USS Guardfish (SSN-612) , which had been ordered in
128-470: The 40,000-ton battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) ; all three of the six 30,000-ton Alaska-class cruisers that were built ( Alaska , Guam , and Hawaii ), four 15,000-ton Baltimore-class heavy cruisers , and 98 LCTs ( Landing Craft, Tank ), many of which took part in the D-Day landings at Normandy. After World War II, a much-diminished New York Ship subsisted on a trickle of contracts from
144-579: The Aleutians and sank. All hands managed to get off the sinking ship safely in boats and were picked up by the merchant steamer Cordova and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey survey ship USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson . New York Shipbuilding The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing more than 500 vessels for
160-590: The Bering Sea Patrol along the Alaskan coast each summer enforcing fisheries regulations and assisting with search and rescue missions. She spent the winter months at her home port , Port Townsend, and underwent refits. After the steamer Yukon was wrecked on Sanak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands on 11 June 1913, Tahoma came to her assistance and rescued the 45 people who had been aboard Yukon . On 20 September 1914, Tahoma struck an uncharted reef in
176-761: The U.S. Navy and the Emergency Fleet Corporation . A critical shortage of worker housing led to the construction of Yorkship Village , a planned community of 1,000 brick homes designed by Electus Darwin Litchfield and financed by the War Department . Yorkship Village is now the Fairview section of the City of Camden. New York Ship's World War II production included all nine Independence -class light carriers (CVL), built on Cleveland -class light cruiser hulls;
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#1733084824103192-686: The Wilson administration and the focus of attention on supporting the war effort. Russia fell into civil war and China was chaotic after the death of its leader in 1916. Willard Straight died and Vanderlip was fired. Despite years of planning, construction work was never begun on the Corporation's elaborate projects in Russia and China. The Corporation did set up a network of branch offices for National City. Its international investments were not profitable and it switched to domestic investment. This article about
208-714: The early 1960s, but construction was halted from 1963 to 1965 because of the loss of the USS ; Thresher . Guardfish was commissioned in December 1967. In 1968, lacking new naval orders, NYS ceased operations. USS Pogy (SSN-647) , then under construction, was towed to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, for completion. The yard's site is now part of the Port of Camden . The caisson previously used in NYS’s graving dock
224-572: The keel of the first ship was laid in November 1900. That ship, contract number 1, was M. S. Dollar , which was later modified as an oil tanker and renamed J. M. Guffey . Two of the first contracts were for passenger ships that were among the largest then being built in the United States: #5 for Mongolia and #6 for Manchuria . Morse died after securing contracts for 20 ships. He was followed as president by De Coursey May. On November 27, 1916,
240-411: The nuclear-powered cargo ship NS Savannah , and a quartet of cargo-passenger liners nicknamed the 4 Aces . It was founded in 1899 by Henry G. Morse (1850–2 June 1903), an engineer noted in connection with bridge design and construction and senior partner of Morse Bridge Company . The original plan was to build a shipyard on Staten Island , thus the name of the company, but plans to acquire
256-618: Was the key operational leader. Its board and stockholders included a wide range of leading American financiers and industrialists. With an initial capitalization of 50 million dollars and located at 120 Broadway in Manhattan, its goals were to invest in foreign companies and projects, especially in China & Russia during France and the United Kingdom's fiscal distress caused by World War I . Its ambitious plans were stymied by opposition from
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