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Bendixsen Shipbuilding, Fairhaven CA

Most recent update: June 29, 2012.

Bendixsen Shipbuilding was started in 1865 by Hans-Ditlev Bendixsen, a Danish immigrant.  He built over 115 lumber schooners before selling the yard in 1901.  It appears to have closed in about 1910.  You can see the site from the air on Google here.  If anyone can add to the table below or tell me what happened to the yard, please send your info to timcolton@aol.com

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Type GT Built Disposition
  Excelsior   Cargo Ship   1876  
  North Fork Korbel Bros Cargo Ship 323 1888 Wrecked between Point Arena and Shelter Cove 1919
  C. A. Thayer E. K. Wood Co. Cargo Ship 453 1895 Museum in San Francisco
  Humboldt Humboldt S.S.Co Passenger Ship 1,076 1896 Scrapped 1931
  Alliance Gray & Mitchell Cargo Ship 679 1897 Deleted 1927
  Hueneme W. A. Mitchell Cargo Ship 342 1897 Later Niihau 1898, scrapped 1926
  Fulton Gray & Mitchell Cargo Ship 381 1898 Abandoned 1944
  Despatch W. A. Mitchell Cargo Ship 698 1899 Later Admiral Rodman 1920, scrapped 1936
  Iaqua Shingle Mfrs Assn Cargo Ship 712 1900 Burnt 1918
  Nome City W. A. Mitchell Passenger Ship 1,660 1900 Scrapped 1937
  Santa Paula   Cargo Ship 650 1900  
  Chehalis Sudden & Christenson Cargo Ship 663 1901 Scrapped 1938
  Pomo Swayne & Hoyt Cargo Ship 368 1903 Wrecked near Drake's Bay 1913
  Harold Dollar Harold Dollar S.S. Cargo Ship 915 1904 Later Graywood 1911, foundered south of Puget Sound entrance 1915
  Northland E. J. Dodge Co Cargo Ship 845 1904 In collision off San Francisco 1927, beached and scrapped
  Cascade Cascade S.S. Cargo Ship 515 1904 Later Wailele 1911, in collision and sank Kauai Channel, Hawaii 1919
  F. A. Kilburn Watsonville Tptn Co Passenger/Cargo 728 1904 Burnt off Key West 1918
  Daisy Mitchell North Coast S.S. Cargo Ship 612 1905 Later La Primera 1916, Coquimbo 1922, wrecked Valparaiso 1923
  Wasp Wasp S.S. Cargo Ship 563 1905 Burnt 1919
  Ravalli Hammond Lumber Co Cargo Ship 998 1905 Burnt at Lowe Inlet, Alaska 1918
  Svea H.Wilson Cargo Ship 618 1906 Deleted 1951
  Hoquiam   Cargo Ship 644 1906  
  Yosemite Yosemite S.S. Cargo Ship 827 1906 Wrecked off Point Reyes 1926
  Daisy Freeman Daisy Freeman S.S. Cargo Ship 613 1906 Abandoned 1940
  Flaurence Ward Commercial Pacific Cable Co Cargo Ship 267 1907 Later Molokai 1924, Anita 1944, foundered off Piaxtla, Mexico 1949
  Yellowstone C. R. McCormack & Co Cargo Ship 767 1907 Wrecked Eureka entrance 1933
  Katherine Redwood S.S. Cargo Ship 531 1908 Scrapped 1940
  Shoshone S. M. Hauptmann Cargo Ship 646 1908 Later Hamaka 1915, burnt off Mani Is, Hawaii 1917
  Tahoe M. Turner Co Cargo Ship 751 1908 Foundered off Cape Falso, Baja California 1946
  Klamath C. R. McCormick & Co Cargo Ship 992 1909 Wrecked near Del Mar Landing 1921
  Nehalem Hammond Lumber Co Cargo Ship 632 1910 Scrapped 1937