Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company information
1917–1948 shipbuilding company in the United States
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 1945
Industry
Shipbuilding
Founded
July 24, 1917 (1917-07-24)[1]
Defunct
1948
Fate
liquidated
Headquarters
Kearny, New Jersey
Parent
United States Steel Corporation
The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a United States shipyard in New Jersey active from 1917 to 1948. It was founded during World War I to build ships for the United States Shipping Board. Unlike many shipyards, it remained active during the shipbuilding slump of the 1920s and early 1930s that followed the World War I boom years. During World War II, it built merchant ships as part of the U.S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding program, at the same time producing more destroyers for the United States Navy than any yard other than the Bath Iron Works. Operated by a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, the shipyard was located at Kearny Point where the mouth of the Hackensack River meets Newark Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Around 570 vessels were contracted for construction by Federal SB&DD Company with about 100 not delivered fully completed due to the end of the World War II. Federal also had a yard at Port Newark during World War II that built destroyers and landing craft.[2]
^Dickie, Alexander J., ed. (February 1922). "Federal Shipbuilding Yard Busy". Pacific Marine Review. 19. Pacific American Steamship Association: 121.
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