McCloskey & Company Shipyard
Shipyard in Tampa, Florida
McCloskey & Company Shipyard was a ship builder in Tampa, Florida . McCloskey & Company built 38 cargo ships, Type N3 ship for World War II founded in 1942. McCloskey & Company also built type C1-S-D1 concrete ships . Matthew H. McCloskey founded the construction company McCloskey & Company in Philadelphia . McCloskey & Company built the Philadelphia Convention Hall , the Philadelphia Sheraton Hotel, and the Washington D.C. Stadium . The Tampa shipyard is now Tampa Ship LLC owned by Edison Chouest Offshore . [ 1]
Shipyard
During World War II, there was a high demand for ships thus, McCloskey & Company opened a shipyard at Hookers Point in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Port Authority leased the land to McCloskey & Company. With steel in short supply due to the war, McCloskey & Company built 24 self-propelled concrete ships under a Maritime Commission war contract starting in July 1943. McCloskey & Company Shipyard had 6,000 employees at its peak, with 13 shipways (construction berths). Most of the concrete ships were used to move carry sugar. The concrete ships were 366 feet long and had a deadweight of 5,000 tons. Four other companies also built concrete ships for the war. Starting in April 1945 McCloskey & Company built 38 steel hull cargo ships Maritime Commission Type N3 ship, these were small coastal cargo ships .
After the war, the shipyard was sold to the City of Tampa in January 1948. The city leased out the shipyard to Tampa Ship Repair & Dry Dock Company . Tampa Fabricators operated out of the Tampa Ship Repair & Dry Dock Company shipyard starting in 1956 till 1960. The shipyard was vacant in the 1960s. In 1972 the yard was sold to American Ship Building Company as Tampa Shipyards . American Ship Building Company built two large drydocks at the site, but went bankrupt in 1995. For two years the site was owned and run by Tampa Shipbuilding Company . In 1997 the site was sold and became the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Company . In 2008 the site was sold to Edison Chouest Offshore and renamed the site Tampa Ship.
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Tampa Ship
Tampa Ship operates a 62-acre full-service ship repair facility in Tampa Bay in Hillsborough County . [ 4] Tampa Ship also does vessel conversions and has four large drydocks. Tampa Ship has 7 repair pier berths off McCloskey Blvd at the start of the Sparkman Channel of Hillsborough Bay . Tampa Ship builds Platform supply vessels and Harbor Tugs . Edison Chouest Offshore has owned Tampa Ship since 2008. [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Drydocks:
535 ft (163 m)
907 ft. (276.4 m)
746 ft. (227.4 m)
414 ft. (126.2 m)
World War 2 ships
Hull #
Ship #
Name
Type
Gross tons
Feet
Delivered
Fate
1
244546
Vitruvius
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Dec-43
Breakwater at Normandy
2
244258
David O. Saylor
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Nov-43
Breakwater at Normandy
3
244542
Arthur Newell Talbot
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Feb-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
4
245070
Richard Lewis Humphrey
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Mar-44
Sold in Mexico
5
245069
Richard Kidder Meade
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Mar-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
6
245071
Willis A. Slater
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Feb-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
7
245336
Leonard Chase Watson
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Jun-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
8
245335
John Smeaton
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Apr-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
9
245579
Joseph Aspdin
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
May-44
Wrecked and lost 1948
10
245773
John Grant
C1-S-D1
4,826
350
Jun-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
11
245771
M. H. Le Chatelier
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Jul-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
12
245774
L. J. Vicat
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Jul-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
13
246010
Robert Whitman Lesley
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Jul-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
14
246120
Edwin Thacher
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Jul-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
15
246257
C. W. Pasley
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Aug-44
Breakwater at Newport OR
16
Armand Considere
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Sep-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
17
Francois Hennebique
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Sep-44
Breakwater at Newport OR
18
P. M. Anderson
C1-S-D1
4,690
350
Sep-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
19
246727
Albert Kahn
C1-S-D1
4,680
350
Oct-44
Abandoned and lost 1947
20
246758
Willard A. Pollard
C1-S-D1
4,680
350
Nov-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
21
246759
William Foster Cowham
C1-S-D1
4,680
350
Nov-44
Breakwater at Kiptopeke VA
22
246877
Edwin Clarence Eckel
C1-S-D1
4,680
350
Dec-44
Scuttled 1946
23
246881
Thaddeus Merriman
C1-S-D1
4,680
350
Nov-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
24
246878
Emile N. Vidal
C1-S-D1
4,680
350
Dec-44
Breakwater at Powell River BC
25
180568
Northern Warrior
N3-S-A2
1,900
250
Apr-45
To Britain 1945, sold 1947, scrapped 1970
26
180576
Northern Chieftain
N3-S-A2
1,900
250
Apr-45
To Britain 1945, sold 1947, scrapped 1982
27
180714
Northern Pioneer
N3-S-A2
1,900
250
May-45
To Britain 1945, to Greece 1945 as Zakynthos, sold 1947, later Teng 1407, Hung Chang, scrapped
28
247949
Northern Wanderer
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jun-45
Later Warren Bearne, to the Philippines 1949, scrapped 1963
29
248016
Northern Explorer
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jun-45
Later Nat Brown, to USA 1949, to USN 1951 as Centaurus (AK 264), scrapped 1960
30
248017
Northern Voyager
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jun-45
Later Oliver R. Mumford, scrapped 1964
31
248014
Northern Adventurer
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jun-45
Sold 1946, later Hai Ming, Chung Kai, sank 1964
32
248215
Northern Squire
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jun-45
Scrapped 1964
33
248216
Northern Yeoman
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jul-45
To USA 1949, to USN 1951 as Serpens (AK 266), scrapped 1960
34
248211
Northern Archer
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jul-45
Sold 1947, scrapped 1979
35
248204
Northern Stalker
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jul-45
Sold 1947, scrapped 1974
36
248394
Eben H. Linnell
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Jul-45
To USA 1949, scrapped
37
248399
Northern Trapper
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Aug-45
Scrapped 1964
38
248397
John J. Jackson
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Aug-45
Sold 1947 as Samsun, later Hopa, Merve, scrapped in Turkey 1978
39
248396
Frederick Lendholm
N3-S-A2
1,870
250
Sep-45
Sold 1947, later Don Martin, scrapped in Peru 1967
Two C1-S-D1 concrete ships SS Vitruvius and SS David O. Saylor were taken out of maritime service and used to make a breakwater at Normandy for the Normandy landings . The breakwater was part of the Mulberry harbour , a temporary manmade harbor for World War II, used for the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. The Breakwater were called Corncobs and Gooseberries . The sunk Vitruvius and David O. Saylor were used at Utah Beach . Nine ships were used at The Kiptopeke Breakwater in Chesapeake Bay , Virginia at 37°09′51″N 75°59′29″W / 37.164267°N 75.991402°W / 37.164267; -75.991402 .[ 8] [ 9]
Ten of the concrete ships are at the Powell River , British Columbia at 49°51′55″N 124°33′21″W / 49.865238°N 124.555821°W / 49.865238; -124.555821 , where a lumber mill then as a breakwater.[ 10] known as The Hulks .
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27°55′35″N 82°26′40″W / 27.926372°N 82.444560°W / 27.926372; -82.444560