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Other 19th Century Shipbuilders - Pacific Coast

This table lists self-propelled, oceangoing ships built in the late 19th century and/or the years before World War One, by the smaller shipbuilders on the Pacific Coast.  For most of these shipyards I have little or no information, in some cases not even a location.  If anyone can tell me anything helpful about any of these shipyards - who owned them, where exactly they were located, what happened to them - or can otherwise add to this table, please e-mail timcolton@aol.com. 

Shipbuilder Location Hull # Original Name Original Owner Ship Type GT Built Disposition
California
Central Pacific RR Oakland CA   Piedmont   Ferry 1,854 1883 Scrapped 1944
Collyer, W. San Francisco CA   James M. Donohue San Francisco & N Pacific Railway Co Passenger Ship 730 1875 Scrapped 1924
Collyer, W. San Francisco CA   Newark South Pacific Coast Railway Co Ferry 1,237 1877 Later Sacramento 1923, sold 1955 as a fishing barge off Redondo Beach
Collyer, W. San Francisco CA   Bay City South Pacific Coast Railway Ferry 1,283 1878 Scrapped 1929
Coronado IW Coronado CA   Silver Gate San Diego & Coronado Ferry Co Ferry 528 1888 Scrapped 1920
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Newport Alaska Pacific Nav Co Cargo Ship 331 1875 Scrapped 1917
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Alexander Duncan Pacific Coast S.S. Co Cargo Ship 372 1876 Converted to a barge 1902
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Arcata Falk, Chandler & Co Cargo Ship 400 1876 Deleted 1918
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Likelike Wilder's S.S. Co Cargo Ship 674 1877 Wrecked off Upolu Point 1997
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Iwalani T. R. Foster & others Passenger/Cargo 588 1881 Converted to barge 1920
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Bonita Pacific Coast S.S. Co Cargo Ship 521 1881 Scrapped 1930
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Mexico   Passenger/Cargo 1,797 1882 Wrecked off Sitka 1897
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Orca   Whalecatcher 628 1882 Crushed in ice off Sea Horse Is 1897
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Narwhal   Whalecatcher 524 1883 Hulked 1915
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Balaena   Whalecatcher 524 1883 Wrecked St Lawrence Is, Bering Sea 1901
Dickie Bros San Francisco CA   Grampus   Whalecatcher 326 1886 Crushed in ice off N Cape Smythe, 1901
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Del Norte Hobbs, Wall & Co Cargo Ship 450 1890 Wrecked off Point Arena 1917
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Sausalito North Shore RR Co Ferry 1,766 1894 Abandoned 1934
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Acme Beadle Bros Cargo Ship 416 1901 Wrecked off Whisky Rock 1924
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Gualala   Cargo Ship 225 1901  
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Redwood City   Cargo Ship 258 1901 Later Unimak
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Centralia T. Pollard Cargo Ship 487 1902 Deleted 1951
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Ramona Pacific Coast Co Cargo Ship 1,061 1902 Wrecked off Spanish Is 1911
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Cazadero Northwestern Pacific RR Co Ferry 1,682 1903 Scrapped 1942
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Yerba Buena San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose RR Co Ferry 616 1903 Later Harry E. Spears 1924, Golden Coast 1927, hulked 1937
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Vanguard E. J. Dodge Co Cargo Ship 358 1904 Later Don Rafael 1943, capsized 1943
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   San Francisco San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose RR Co Ferry 1,070 1905 Later Golden Dawn 1928, hulked 1938
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Fernwood San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose RR Co Ferry 1,160 1907 Later Golden Era 1924, hulked 1938
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Claremont Key System Transit Co Ferry 1,138 1907 Later Golden Way 1928, scrapped 1936
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Majestic I. J. Harmon Cargo Ship 810 1908 Wrecked Pfeiffers Point, Cal., 1909
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Doris E. T. Kruse Cargo Ship 725 1908 Later Onomea 1917, scrapped 1925
Dickie, J.W. Alameda CA   Willapa Sudden & Christenson Cargo Ship 779 1908 Wrecked near Vivorilla Cays 1916
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   President Alaska Packers' Assn Cargo Ship 377 1895 Last seen in El Salvador 1907
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Grace Dollar R. Dollar Cargo Ship 429 1898 Later Hardy 1913, San Antonio 1919, scrapped 1936
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Samoa J. R. Hanify & Co Cargo Ship 377 1898 Wrecked in San Francisco harbour mouth 1913
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Ruth A. W. Beadle & Co Cargo Ship 377 1898 Wrecked in Fisherman's Bay 1903
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Newburg Pollard & Dodge Cargo Ship 450 1898 Wrecked off Bodega 1918
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Richmond   Tug 135 1900  
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Chilkat   Cargo Ship 172 1901  
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Sea Rover   Tug 199 1902  
Fulton Eng. & Sbldg. San Francisco CA   Arabs   Tug 155 1904  
Hansen & Fraser San Francisco CA   Caspar Caspar Lumber Co Cargo Ship 300 1888 Wrecked near Punta Arenas 1897
Hanson & Fraser San Francisco CA   Hermosa Wilmington Tptn Co Passenger Ship 455 1889 Abandoned 1902
Hay & Wright Alameda CA   Charles Nelson C. Nelson Cargo Ship 629 1898 Burnt 1913
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   Pasadena Kerckhoff, Cuzner & Co Cargo Ship 300 1887 Scrapped 1935
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   Noyo Noyo Lumber Co Cargo Ship 316 1887 Foundered off Point Reyes 1918
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   National City C.A.Hooper & Co Cargo Ship 491 1888 Deleted 1924
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   W. L. Hardison Mission Transfer Co Cargo Ship 453 1888 Burnt 1989
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   Point Loma C. A. Hooper & Co Cargo Ship 310 1888 Wrecked off Long Beach 1896
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   Farrallon Dolbeer & Carson Cargo Ship 750 1888 Wrecked in Illiamna Bay 1910
Hay, A. San Francisco CA   Truckee Truckee Lumber Co Cargo Ship 417 1890 Wrecked in Umpqua River 1897
Marshall, G. B. Antioch CA   G. B. Marshall       1909  
Muller, W. Wilmington CA   Hermosa Wilmington Tptn Co Cargo Ship 483 1902 Burnt near Punta Arenas 1935
Muller, W. San Pedro CA   Cabrillo Wilmington Tptn Co Cargo Ship 611 1904 Deleted 1959
Muller, W. Wilmington CA   John N. Stewart   Tug 120 1926  
North Shore RR Tiburon CA   Ukiah North Shore RR Co Ferry 2,564 1890 Later Eureka 1921, preserved in San Francisco 1957
Southern Pacific SY CA   Alameda     2,302 1914  
Turner, M. San Francisco CA   Dora Alaska Commercial Co Cargo Ship 198 1880 Wrecked in Alert Bay 1920
Turner, M. Benicia CA   Karluk   Cargo Ship 321 1884 Crushed in ice off Herald Is 1914
Turner, M. Benicia CA   Bertha Karluk Packing Co Cargo Ship 597 1888 Wrecked in Uyak Bay 1915
Turner, M. Benicia CA   Eclipse   Cargo Ship 211 1900  
Turner, M. Benicia CA   Gazelle   Cargo Ship 151 1901 Wrecked 1909
Unknown Wilmington CA   Warrior   Cargo Ship 122 1901  
Unknown Wilmington CA   Santa Rosa Island   Cargo Ship 140 1903  
Unknown Wilmington CA   Vaquero   Cargo Ship 231 1913  
Oregon
Heuckendorff Prosper OR   Bowdoin Bowdoin Co Cargo Ship 756 1907 Wrecked False Cape, Nicaragua 1917
Heuckendorff Prosper OR   Wellesley Wellesley Co Cargo Ship 709 1907 Burnt and scrapped 1942
Muller, W. Prosper OR   Coquille River R. Sudden Cargo Ship 415 1896 Later Winchester 1925. foundered Oakland 1932
Price, J. H. Brandon OR   Gleaner Gardiner Mill Co Tug 154 1908 Later ST 216, Erik Foss 1952
Price, J. H. Bandon OR   Daisy Daisy S.S. Co Cargo Ship 679 1907 Later Thos. H. Elliott 1935, Redwood 1935, burnt off Eureka 1939
Price, J. H. St Helens OR   Henry J. Biddle   Cargo Ship 229 1913  
Price, J. H. St Helens OR   Celilo C. R. McCormick Co Cargo Ship 943 1913 Scrapped San Francisco 1945
Reed, H. R. Coquille OR   Homer C. H. Butler & Co Cargo Ship 501 1891 Barge 1938, deleted 1944
Reed, H. R. Coos Bay OR   Santa Ana A. W. Beadle & Co Cargo Ship 767 1900 Deleted 1935
Reed, H. R. Bay City OR   Arctic J. S. Kimball Co Cargo Ship 392 1901 Wrecked near Point Arena 1922
Simpson, A. M. North Bend OR   Brunswick C. A. Hooper & Co Cargo Ship 436 1898 Burnt at Puntarenas 1947
Simpson, A. M. North Bend OR   Mandalay Simpson Lumber Co Cargo Ship 438 1900 Wrecked near Klamath River 1918
Smith Bros Watson Portland OR   Tacoma   Ferry 1,362 1884 Later M.T. No. 6 1918, in collision and sank 1949
Sorensen, E. Portland OR   Yaquina Z. J. Hatch & D. S. Suthill Cargo Ship 356 1881 Wrecked on Hueneme Bar 1897
Steffen, J. F. Portland OR   Sehome Oregon Railway & Nav Co Passenger Ship 692 1889 Rammed and sunk in San Pablo Bay, Cal. 1918
Steffen, J. H. Portland OR   Victorian Union Pacific RR Co Passenger Ship 1,504 1891 Scrapped 1913
Timberman, Max Marshfield OR   Hilda       1906  
Unknown Astoria OR   General Miles   Passenger Ship 331 1891 Later Gedney 1893, scrapped 1930
Washington
Barbare, Steven Tacoma WA   Wallace Foss Foss Tug & Launch Tug   1899  
Blanchard & Wheeler Tacoma WA   Alice Blanchard Blanchard Transit Co Cargo Ship 542 1890 Later Chico 1902, wrecked Shelter Cove, Cal., 1906
Crawford & Reid Tacoma WA   Elf Olson Tugboat Co Tug   1902 Later Foss No. 15
Crawford & Reid Tacoma WA   Sand Man   Tug   1910  
Hanson Shipyard Seattle WA   Katahdin Anacortes Packing Tug   1899 Later Catherine Foss
Haskell & Crawford Tacoma WA   Alice       1897  
Heath, E. W. Everett WA   Majestic Thompson Steamboat Co Ferry 657 1901 Later Whatcom 1904, City of Bremerton 1922, scrapped 1938
Heath, E. W. Tacoma WA   Clallam Puget Sound Nav Co Passenger/Cargo 672 1903 Foundered off Smith Is 1904
Heath, E. W. Tacoma WA   Jefferson Alaska S.S. Co Cargo Ship 1,615 1904 Scrapped 1925
Heath, E. W. Port Blakely WA   Great Bear J. Burden & L. L. Lane Schooner 367 1916 Foundered near Pinnacle Rock, Bering Sea 1916
Hitchings, G. H. Hoquiam WA   Robert Dollar R. Dollar Cargo Ship 798 1900 Later Fair Oaks 1907, abandoned 1932
Hitchings, G. H. Hoquiam WA   Rainier Pollard & Dodge Cargo Ship 800 1900 In collision 4nm W Port Angeles and scrapped 1923
Hitchings, G. H. Aberdeen WA   Coronado T. Pollard Cargo Ship 578 1901 Foundered off Point Arena 1917
Hitchings, G. H. Hoquiam WA   Olympic E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 688 1901 Foundered 90nm off Puerto Mexico 1917
Hitchings, G. H. Hoquiam WA   Shasta E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 722 1903 Wrecked 2nm S Point Conception 1906
Hitchings, J. R. Hoquiam WA   Helen P. Drew   Cargo Ship 286 1904  
Hitchins & Joyce Hoquiam WA   Tiverton J. E. Davenport & Co Cargo Ship 557 1906 Wrecked 1nm S Humboldt Bar 1933
King & Winge Seattle WA   Utopia Union Transit Co. Passenger 423 1893

Burnt Richmond Beach, Wash. 1929
King & Winge Seattle WA   Samson Puget Sound Nav. Co. Cargo Ship 328 1903

Deleted 1931
King & Winge Seattle WA   Linda Kay   Cargo Ship 286 1903  
King & Winge Seattle WA   King & Winge   Schooner   1914  
Lake, C. E. Ballard WA   Linda Kay   Tug   1903  
Lake's Yard Ballard WA   J. R. McDonald Pennington Nav Co Cargo Ship 280 1890 Kater Cassiar 1901, J. R. McDonald 1923, burnt Sequim Bay, Wash., 1940
McDade, W. Fairhaven WA   Toledo   Cargo Ship 211 1904  
McWhinney, W. H. Aberdeen WA   G.C.Lindauer Wilson Bros & Co Cargo Ship 453 1902 Wrecked South Spit, Umpqua Harbour, Ore., 1924
McWhinny Starret Hoquiam WA   Tamalpais E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 574 1906 Wrecked off Moss Landing and scrapped 1931
Mitchell, J. Seattle WA   Alice Gertrude J. R. Thompson Cargo Ship 413 1898 Wrecked Clallam Bay 1907
Mitchell, J. F. T. Seattle WA   George E.Starr L. M. Starr Cargo Ship 472 1879 Deleted 1920
Mortensen, L. Skamokawa WA   Michigan W. L. Colville Cargo Ship 567 1888 Wrecked 20nm N Bonilla Point 1893
Pacific Steel Barge Everett WA   City of Everett   Whaleback Steamer 2,504 1894 Lost in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico 1923
Peterson, N. C. Everett WA   Nellie WA Tug & Barge Tug 27 1901

Later Bee
Peterson, T. H. Port Madison WA   Lakme G. S. Hinsdale Cargo Ship 529 1888 Abandoned Oakland Creek, Cal., 1922
Price, J. H. Seattle WA   Donna Lane   Cargo Ship 2,185 1919 Scrapped 1947
Price, J. H. Seattle WA   Muriel   Cargo Ship 2,220 1920 Later Z. R. 3 1926, scuttled as breakwater Oyster Bay, Vancouver Is 1942
Springer, Nicholas A. Aberdeen WA   Florence B.       1907  
Turner, M. Fairhaven WA   Hoquiam N. Andrews Cargo Ship 644 1906 Wrecked Port Angel, W Mexico 1944
Unknown Lopez WA   Calcite John McMillin Yacht   1907 Later Nancy Foss 1939, Nancy Bear 1975
Unknown Seattle WA   Heather U.S. Coast Guard Tender 730 1903 To US Army 1940
Unknown Seattle WA       Tug   1912 Later Peggy Foss 1923
Unknown WA   Katahdin Anacortes Packing Tug   1899 Later Catherine Foss
Unknown Ballard WA   Charles Counselman   Tug 123 1900 Later Willapa 1891, Bellingham 1892, burnt Seattle 1950
Unknown Everett WA   City of Everett   Cargo Ship 212 1900 Later Intrepid