BABARE BROS. SHIPBUILDING

Tacoma WA

Most recent update: May 10, 2016.

Stephen Babare and his sons Nick and George were, like so many boatbuilders in the Pacific Northwest, from Croatia.  They started their shipyard - originally called Babare Ship & Launch Builders - in the late 1890s and closed it in 1923.  It was located next to Crawford & Reid, at the foot of N. Carr Street, in Old Town Tacoma, where the Silver Cloud Inn is today: see the site from the air on Google here.  If anyone can add to the table below, please send your info to timcolton@aol.com
Hull #
O.N. Name Owner Type GT Ft. Built Disposition
  211079 Olympic Lee Makovich Fishing 23 44 1912 Foundered 1921
  211400 Mermaid II Lee Makovich Fishing 21 42 1913  
  211863 Welcome John Hudson Fishing 21 42 1913  
  212731 Magdalene American Packing Schooner 41 56 1914  
  213088 Providence Lee Makovich Fishing 22 43 1915  
  214421 Else Anderson & Co. Schooner 814 185 1916 Abandoned 1928
  215029 Arctic Peter Bozanich Fishing 32 53 1917  
  216763 Mahaska (483) U. S. S. B. Cargo Ship 2,524 267 1919 Scrapped 1923
  217233 Bottineau (1235) U. S. S. B. Cargo Ship 2,533 267 1919 Scrapped 1923
    Boughton (1236) U. S. S. B. Cargo Ship   1919  
    Inukfa (2685) U. S. S. B. Cargo Ship     1920 Completed as barge
  220234 Favorite Fintan Fisheries Fishing 42 56 1920  
  222264 Arro Herbert A. Hoover Yacht 23 43 1922