MATTHEWS SHIPBUILDING

Hoquiam WA

Most recent update: September 3, 2018.
Matthews Shipbuilding was started in 1897 by Peter Matthews.  After his death in 1900, it became Hitchings & Joyce, and then in 1906 it was bought by George H. Matthews and became Matthews Shipbuilding.  It closed in 1923.  The yard was located by the E. K. Wood Lumber mill, although the exact location is not clear.  The table below is clearly incomplete: if anyone has any data to add to it, please send it to me at timcolton@aol.com. 
Hull # O.N. Original Name Original Owner Type GT Ft. Built Disposition
  157487 Defiance   Schooner 604 180 1897  
  157502 Dirigo J. S. Kimball Co Psgr. Ship 823 165 1898 Foundered off Cape Fairweather 1914
  157526 Dauntless   Schooner 548 162 1898  
  121109 Fred J. Wood   Schooner 681 181 1899  
  150822 Petrel   Schooner 5 34 1899  
  111262 Robert Dollar Robert Dollar Psgr. Ship 798 199 1900 Fair Oaks 1907, abandoned 1932
  111268 Rainier Pollard & Dodge Cargo Ship 800 205 1900 In collision off Port Angeles and scrapped 1923
  121159 Fearless   Schooner 736 182 1900  
  93110 Mahukona   Schooner 738 182 1901  
  107702 A. F. Coats   Schooner 617 172 1901 Burnt at Ponce 1926
  127468 Coronado T. Pollard Psgr. Ship 578 186 1901 Foundered off Point Arena 1917
  155437 Olympic E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 688 186 1901 Foundered off Puerto Mexico 1917
  93272 Melrose   Schooner 615 172 1902  
  107794 Alert   Schooner 623 174 1902  
  111392 Resolute   Schooner 684 182 1902  
  200714 Shasta E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 722 200 1903 Wrecked off Point Conception 1906
  162281 Helen P. Drew   Psgr. Ship 286 135 1904  
  203045 Tiverton J. E. Davenport & Co Cargo Ship 557 155 1906 Wrecked off Humboldt Bar 1933
  203859 Helene E. T. Kruse Cargo Ship 672 172 1906 Scrapped 1930
  203894 Temple E. Dorr Pacific Lumber Co Cargo Ship 720 176 1907 Burnt at Cojimar 1919
  204277 William H. Murphy Pacific Lumber Co Steamer 923 191 1907 Burnt at Port of Spain 1918
  204673 Saginaw Hart-Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 886 191 1908 Scrapped 1940
  204900 San Jacinto E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 614 160 1908 Border King 1925, Mario 1944, deleted 1947
  205041 Shasta E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 878 192 1908 Wrecked off Alameda 1937
  209439 Daisy Gadsby S. S. Freeman & Co Cargo Ship 818 189 1911 To USA 1944 as FS 538, deleted 1953
  210616 Avalon Avalon S.S.Co Cargo Ship 881 204 1912 Wrecked in Willapa Bay 1927
27 210872 Siskiyou E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 884 204 1912 Scuttled in San Francisco Bay 1938 
28 211074 O. M. Clark C. H. Higgins Cargo Ship 844 200 1913 Burnt in Norfolk 1918
  211634 Rosalie Mahony Olson & Mahony Cargo Ship 946 201 1913 Border Queen 1926, barge 1937, scuttled 1942 in Victoria BC
  211723 Daisy Putnam S. S. Freeman & Co Cargo Ship 886 201 1913 Wrecked near Point Gorda 1929
  214266 Daisy Matthews S. S. Freeman & Co Cargo Ship 943 205 1916 Wrecked on Trinidad Head 1940
  214391 Sierra E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 1,050 211 1917 Scrapped 1975
  214638 Hartwood Hart-Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 946 199 1916 Wrecked on Point Reyes 1929
38   Santa Elena W. R. Grace & Co Cargo Ship 1,928 216 1917 Burnt in Valparaiso 1920
39 215330 Santa Isabel W. R. Grace & Co Cargo Ship 1,919 216 1918 Iquique 1921, burnt off Coquimbo 1921
  215888 Lassen E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 717 176 1917 Burnt in Oakland 1932
  215907 Claremont Hart-Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 1,291 225 1917 Alwill 1941, North Bend 1942, Consuelo-A 1947, wrecked off Surigao 1948
  216794 San Diego Hart-Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 1,487 237 1918 Deleted 1951
    Mount Shasta Cornelius Bull's Rederi Schooner 1,571   1919 Comet 1923, Seeadler 1924, Comet 1925, Vaterland 1926, Mopelia 1929, burnt 1935
    Mount Hood Cornelius Bull's Rederi Schooner 1,490   1919 Marie Gertrude 1923, Kontreadmiral Hermelo 1927, Peter Wilstermann 1927, burnt 1927
  219516 Vigilant E. K. Wood Lumber Co Cargo Ship 1,603   1920  
  220985 Quineault W. H. Wood Cargo Ship 1,138  210 1921 Bunty 1946, scrapped 1950
  221305 Undaunted   Cargo Ship 2,266   1921 Wrecked in Peru 1931
  222719 Daisy Gray S. S. Freeman & Co Cargo Ship 1,187 216 1921 Dorotea 1952, Rio Tinto 1953, foundered off Aruba 1954
  223313 Esther Johnson A. J. Johnson, Jr. Cargo Ship 1,104 208 1923 Deleted 1957
  226495 North Beach   Cargo Ship 225   1927