Bethlehem Staten Island
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Bethlehem Staten Island also called Bethlehem Mariners Harbor was large shipyard in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, New York. The shipyard started building ships for World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program in January 1941. The shipyard was part of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation which built ships for the United States Navy, and the United States Maritime Commission. Bethlehem Steel purchased the shipyard in June 1938 from United Shipyards. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation closed the shipyard in 1959. The site today is May Ship Repair Contracting Corporation next to Shooters Island at the southern end of Newark Bay, off the North Shore.[1][2][3][4]
Staten Island Shipbuilding
The site started in 1907, when William Burlee built a shipyard at the site and opened as the Staten Island Shipbuilding (SISB). William Burlee sold the shipyard to United Shipyards in 1929.
World War II ships
- Fletcher-class destroyer and Gearing-class destroyer, 47 built
- Type V ship Tugboats, 3 built
- Type C1-B cargo ships, 5 built
- Type B ship barges
- Landing Craft Utility, 75 built
- Destroyer Examples:
- USS Beale (DD-471) destroyer
- USS Seminole (AT-65) destroyer
- USS Cone destroyer
- Tugs: USS Navajo (AT-64), USS Cherokee (AT-66) and USS Seminole (AT-65)
- C1-B cargo ships: Alcoa Pathfinder, Alcoa Prospector, Cape Neddick, Cape Cod, and Stella Lykes.[5]
Post war
Post war from 1946 to 1958 the shipyard built car floats, barges, ferries, tank barges, derrick barges, repair barge, fireboat and tugboats.
- Examples:
- LCU 1608, YFU-91, Landing Craft Utility [6]
- USNS Chattahoochee (T-AOG-82)
- USAV Vulcan (FMS-789) Repair shop
- Walter B. Keane Ferry
- Joseph F. Merrell Ferry
- T1-MET-24a Tankers: Product Carrier and Product Carrier
See also
References
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