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1905–1997 shipbuilding company in the United States
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Formerly Bethlehem Steel Corporation Company type Corporation Industry Shipbuilding Founded 1905 (1905 ) in
Quincy, Massachusetts , U.S. Defunct 1997 Headquarters , U.S.
Area served
United States Products
Ships
Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipbuilding Division was created in 1905 when the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , acquired the
San Francisco -based shipyard
Union Iron Works .
[1]
[2] In 1917 it was incorporated as Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited .
The division's headquarters were moved to
Quincy, Massachusetts , after acquiring the
Fore River Shipyard in 1913.
In 1940, Bethlehem Shipbuilding was the largest of the "Big Three" U.S. shipbuilders that could build any ship,
[3] followed by
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock and
New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York Ship). Bethlehem expanded shortly before and during
World War II as a result of the
Long Range Shipbuilding Program and later the
Emergency Shipbuilding program orchestrated by the
United States Maritime Commission and the
Two Ocean Navy program and its war-time successors by the military establishment.
In 1964, the now-corporate headquarters moved to
Sparrows Point, Maryland , southeast of
Baltimore , whose shipyard had been acquired in 1916.
The Quincy / Fore River yard was sold to
General Dynamics Corporation in the mid-1960s, and closed in 1986. The
Alameda Works Shipyard in
California was closed by Bethlehem Steel in the early 1970s, while the
San Francisco facility (former
Union Iron Works ) was sold to
British Aerospace in the mid-1990s and survives today as
BAE Systems San Francisco Ship Repair.
Bethlehem Steel ceased shipbuilding activities in 1997 in an attempt to preserve its core steelmaking operations.
Shipyards
Shipyards owned or operated by Bethlehem:
New York
Became part of Bethlehem with the purchase of United Shipyards on June 2, 1938 for $9,320,000
[4]
they were called the Staten Island Works, the Brooklyn 56th Street Works, the Brooklyn 27th Street Works and the Hoboken Works of the New York Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation.
[11]
Boston
Baltimore
San Francisco
Others
Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro on
Terminal Island , formerly Southwestern Shipbuilding .
Bethlehem Steel Wilmington (aka
Harlan and Hollingsworth ),
Wilmington, Delaware (1904–1925, 1941–1945).
[21]
Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard ,
Beaumont, Texas (1948–1989). A major U.S. manufacturer of offshore drilling rigs, it produced 72.
[22]
[23]
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[27]
Bethlehem Sabine ,
Port Arthur, Texas , (1985-1995). Sold to Texas Drydock Inc. in 1995.
[28]
See also
References
^ Bethlehem Steel Company Shipbuilding Division. A century of progress, 1849-1949: San Francisco Yard. San Francisco, 1949?
^ Strohmeier, Daniel D. (1963).
"A History of Bethlehem Steel Company's Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Activities" . Naval Engineers Journal . 75 (2): 259–280.
doi :
10.1111/j.1559-3584.1963.tb04865.x .
ISSN
1559-3584 .
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"Billion-Dollar Feast" ,
Time . May 20, 1940. Accessed August 20, 2007.
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"Bethlehem Shipbuilding Expansion" . Pacific Marine Review . July 1938. p. 42.
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 1963 .
^ John Pike.
"Mariners Harbor, Staten Island" . globalsecurity.org .
^
shipbuildinghistory.com Bethlehem Staten Island
^
"Abbreviations & symbols" .
Naval History and Heritage Command . Archived from
the original on August 24, 2007.
^ Richard L. Porter, et al.,
Historic American Engineering Record No. NJ-95, "
Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard
Archived January 7, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine ," 1994
^ John Pike.
"Hoboken Shipyards" . globalsecurity.org .
^
"(Bethlehem announcement ad)" . Pacific Marine Review . August 1938. p. 53.
^
"Bethlehem Steel Elizabethport, Crescent Shipyard, Lewis Nixon, Samuel Moore" . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-08-28 .
^
globalsecurity.org Bayonne Naval Drydock
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"Bethlehem Hingham" . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-23 .
^ John Pike.
"Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Sparrows Point MD" . globalsecurity.org .
^ John Pike.
"Fairfield Shipyard" . globalsecurity.org .
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"Books: Civil War - the Union" . www.marylandsilver.com . Archived from
the original on 6 January 2014.
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thedailyrecord.com, General ship repair
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baltimoreheritage.org Bethlehem Key Highway
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Bethlehem Baltimore shipyards
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"Bethlehem Steel Wilmington, Harlan & Hollingsworth" . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-23 .
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"Bethlehem Beaumont, Pennsylvania Shipyards" . shipbuildinghistory.com . Retrieved 2021-07-21 .
^
"Drilling Rigs Built in U.S. Shipyards" . ShipbuildingHistory.com. Archived from
the original on November 10, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
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"Bethlehem Steel Company, Beaumont, TX" . Shipbuilding.com. Archived from
the original on January 2, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
^
"Merchant Ship Builders Pennsylvania" . Maritime Business Strategies, LLC (www.coltoncompany.com) . Archived from
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"Bethlehem Beaumont" . Maritime Business Strategies, LLC (www.coltoncompany.com) . Archived from
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"The Decline of U.S. Shipbuilding: Yards that built deep-draft, self-propelled, oceangoing naval and/or merchant ships" . Maritime Business Strategies, LLC (www.coltoncompany.com) . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-28 .
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Bethlehem Steel Dedicates Its New Sabine Yard In Port Arthur, Texas Maritime Reporter, Dec. 1985
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