72 Significant Shipbuilders
These companies generally operate (or used to operate) well developed, mid-sized to large shipyards capable of building mid-sized to large merchant ships, mid-sized to large naval vessels, offshore drilling rigs and high-value, high-complexity smaller vessels.
The first group, of 14 active shipyards, constitutes what is now known as the "second tier" of the U.S. shipbuilding industry: note that these 14 yards are operated by only 9 companies and that 5 of these 9 companies are controlled by foreign corporations - from Australia, Italy, Norway and two from Singapore.
The second group, of 7 shipyards, includes those active shipyards which are now primarily repair yards but that would be in the first group if they were still actively building ships.
The third group, of 51 shipyards, includes all those yards with a significant track record building oceangoing ships but which are no longer in business.
Active SECOND-TIER ShipbuilderS (14)
Aker Philadelphia (Philadelphia PA) (formerly Kvaerner Philadelphia and Philadelphia NSY)
Austal USA (Mobile AL)
Bollinger Lockport (Lockport LA)
Bollinger Marine Fabricators (Amelia LA) (formerly McDermott Shipbuilding)
Fincantieri USA - Bay Shipbuilding (Sturgeon Bay WI) (formerly Christy Corp., Sturgeon Bay SB and Leathem D. Smith SB)
Fincantieri USA - Marinette Marine (Marinette WI)
Keppel O. & M. USA - AMFELS (Brownsville TX) (formerly Marathon LeTourneau)
LeTourneau Technologies (Vicksburg MS) (formerly Marathon LeTourneau)
North American Shipbuilding (Larose LA)
North American Fabricators (Houma LA)
Todd Pacific Shipyards (Seattle WA) (formerly Moran Bros., Seattle Dry-Dock and Todd Dry-Dock)
VT Halter Marine Pascagoula (Pascagoula MS) (formerly Halter Pascagoula)
VT Halter Marine Moss Point (Moss Point MS) (formerly Halter Moss Point)
VT Halter Marine Escatawpa (Escatawpa MS) (formerly Moss Point Marine)
SECOND-TIER ShipbuilderS NO LONGER BUILDING SHIPS (7)
BAE Systems Southeast - Alabama (Mobile AL) (formerly ADDSCO, Alabama Maritime, Alabama Shipyard and Atlantic Marine Alabama)
BAE Systems Southeast - Florida (Jacksonville FL) (formerly Atlantic Marine and Atlantic Marine Florida)
Bollinger Gretna (Gretna LA) (formerly Gretna Machine & Iron Works)
Signal International (Orange TX) (formerly Consolidated Steel)
Signal International (Pascagoula MS) (formerly Friede Goldman Offshore)
Signal Ship Repair (Mobile AL) (formerly Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc.)
Tampa Ship (Tampa FL) (formerly Tampa Bay Shipbuilding and Tampa Shipyards)
SECOND-TIER ShipbuilderS NO LONGER IN BUSINESS (51)
Atlantic Coast (16):
Bethlehem Steel Company (Baltimore MD) (formerly Baltimore Dry Dock & SB and Columbia Iron Works)
Bethlehem Steel Company (Elizabethport NJ) (formerly Crescent Shipyard and Samuel Moore Co.)
Bethlehem Steel Company (Staten Island NY) (formerly Staten Island Shipbuilding and Burlee Dry Dock)
Bethlehem Steel Company (Wilmington DE) (formerly Harlan & Hollingsworth)
Cramp Shipbuilding Company (Philadelphia PA)
Downey Shipbuilding (Arlington NY) (formerly Townsend & Downey)
Dravo Corporation (Wilmington DE)
Lake Torpedo Boat Co. (Bridgeport CT)
Maryland Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. (Baltimore MD) (formerly Maryland Dry Dock and Globe Shipbuilding)
Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation (Chester PA) (formerly Chester SB, Delaware River Iron SB, J. Roach & Sons, and Reaney, Son & Archbold)
Merrill-Stevens Shipbuilding (Jacksonville FL)
New York Harbor & Dry Dock (Port Jefferson NY) (formerly Bayles Shipyard)
Pusey & Jones (Wilmington DE)
Seatrain Shipbuilding (Brooklyn NY) (formerly New York Naval Ship Yard)
Todd Shipyards (Brooklyn NY)
Welding Shipyards, Inc. (Norfolk VA)
Gulf Coast (9):
Bethlehem Steel Company (Beaumont TX) (formerly Beaumont Shipbuilding and Pennsylvania Shipyards, later Trinity Beaumont)
Gulfport Shipbuilding (Port Arthur TX) (formerly Gulfport Boiler & Welding)
Halter Chickasaw (Chickasaw AL) (formerly Gulf Shipbuilding and Chickasaw Shipbuilding)
Ingalls Iron Works (Decatur AL)
Levingston Shipbuilding (Orange TX)
Southern Shipbuilding (Slidell LA) (formerly Canulette Shipbuilding)
Tampa Shipbuilding Company (TASCO) (Tampa FL)
Todd Shipyards (Galveston TX) (formerly Gray's Iron Works)
Todd Shipyards (Houston TX) (formerly Brown Shipbuilding)
Inland and Great Lakes (15):
American Ship Building Company (Buffalo NY) (formerly Buffalo Dry Dock)
American Ship Building Company (Chicago IL) (formerly Chicago Shipbuilding)
American Ship Building Company (Detroit MI) (formerly Detroit Shipbuilding and Detroit Dry Dock)
American Ship Building Company (Lorain OH) (formerly Cleveland Shipbuilding)
American Ship Building Company (Superior WI) (formerly Superior Shipbuilding and American Steel Barge)
American Ship Building Company (Toledo OH) (formerly Toledo Shipbuilding and Craig Shipbuilding)
American Ship Building Company (West Bay City MI) (formerly West Bay City Shipbuilding and Wheeler & Co.)
Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., Walter (Duluth MN) (formerly McDougall-Duluth and Barnes-Duluth SB)
Cleveland Shipbuilding (Cleveland OH)
Defoe Shipbuilding (Bay City MI) (formerly Defoe Boat & Motor Works)
Dravo Corporation (Pittsburgh PA) - Self-Propelled Vessels and Barges
Great Lakes Engineering (Ashtabula OH, Ecorse MI and St. Clair MI))
Manitowoc Shipbuilding (Manitowoc WI)
Marietta Manufacturing (Point Pleasant WV)
Peterson Builders (Sturgeon Bay WI) (formerly Peterson Boat Works)
Pacific Coast (11):
Albina Engine & Machine Works (Portland OR)
Bethlehem Steel Company (San Pedro CA) (formerly Southwestern Shipbuilding, later Southwest Marine)
Craig Shipbuilding (Long Beach CA) (later Long Beach Shipbuilding)
Lockheed Shipbuilding (Seattle WA) (formerly Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.)
Moore Dry Dock (Oakland CA) (formerly Moore & Scott Iron Works and Moore Shipbuilding)
Tacoma Boatbuilding (Tacoma WA)
Todd Pacific Shipyards (San Pedro CA) (formerly Los Angeles Shipbuilding)
Todd Pacific Shipyards (Tacoma WA) (formerly Sea-Tac Shipbuilding)
Western Pipe & Steel Company of California (San Francisco and San Pedro CA)
Willamette Iron & Steel Corp. (Portland OR)