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MIAMI SHIPBUILDING Miami FL |
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Most recent update: August 26, 2021. |
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| This yard was originally called Fogal Boat Yard, Inc., and was owned by Jay Fogal. In 1939 it was reorganized, with new investors, and renamed Miami Shipbuilding Corporation. The yard was on both sides of the Miami River, between SW 2nd and 3rd Avenues, and was the second largest wartime employer in Miami. Its magnificent Art Moderne office building at 615 SW 2nd Ave acted the part of the police station on "Miami Vice" and was a protected building until somebody unprotected it and pulled it down. The post-war boatyard was on the south side of the river, west of the bridge: see it on Google here. Miami Shipbuilding is best known for developing the famous "Miamis", designed by Dair Long, which were the crash boat (technically Air-Sea Rescue Boat, or ASR) of choice in WWII, and they built 740 of them, 329 in their own yard and 411 through subcontracts. After the war, they moved into recreational boats and hydrofoils but closed in the 1970s. Their construction record is VERY confusing: if anyone can add to the table below, please send your info to timcolton@aol.com. | |||||||||
| Hull # | O.N. | Original Name/Number | Original Owner | Type | Model | LDT | Ft. | Built | Disposition |
| Built by Fogal Boat Yard | |||||||||
| Isola Stella | E. H. R. Green | Gondola | 52 | 1928 | |||||
| Old River | W. H. Vanderpoel | House Boat | 130 | 1928 | |||||
| US DoH | Harbor Launch | 24 | 1939 | 3 boats | |||||
| Built by Miami Shipbuilding | |||||||||
| PT 1 | US Navy | Torpedo Boat | 59 | 1941 | Prototype, later C 6083, at Melville RI | ||||
| PT 2 | US Navy | Torpedo Boat | 59 | 1941 | Prototype, later C 6084, at Newport RI | ||||
| R 1 to 8 | US Navy | Crash Boat | 127 | 23 | 63 | 1941 | 8 boats, all for South Africa | ||
| US Navy | Crash Boat | 152 | 23 | 63 | 1941 | 82 boats, some to the RN | |||
| US Navy | Crash Boat | 168 | 23 | 63 | 1941 | 16 boats | |||
| R 9 to 19 | US Navy | Crash Boat | 252 | 23 | 63 | 1944 | 11 boats, all for South Africa | ||
| RPC 1 to 50 | US Navy | Crash Boat | 293 | 23 | 63 | 1943 | 50 boats, all for the USSR | ||
| 283587 | P-372 | US Navy | Crash Boat | 293 | 63 | 1943 | Sold as Swan | ||
| US Navy | Crash Boat | 314 | 23 | 63 | 1944 | 146 boats | |||
| US Navy | Crash Boat | 440 | 23 | 63 | 1945 | 20 boats, 6 for the USA | |||