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Tacoma Boat was established in 1926 and built many boats during World War II. [1] The shipyard grew rapidly in the 1970s and early 1980s but got into difficulty with several large government contracts and filed for Chapter 11 protection in 1985. [1] It emerged from bankruptcy in 1986 but could not recover and closed in 1992. [1]
Ships built by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company at their shipyard in Tacoma, Washington. Pages in category "Ships built by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Ships built by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company (43 P) Pages in category "Ships built in Tacoma, Washington" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 total.
In 1937, the company built the Western Flyer as a purse seiner, [4] and in 1940, this boat carried John Steinbeck on the journey which he documented in The Log from the Sea of Cortez. In 1949, the company launched the largest tuna clipper ever built up to that time, the 150-foot (46 m) Mary E. Petrich . [ 5 ]
In 1963 production was started on 5 patrol boats for the South Vietnamese Navy of the PGM-type. Most production since 1964 has concentrated on fishing vessels and tugs. The largest contract awarded to Martinac was for the manufacture of 26 patrol boats for the U.S. Coast Guard of the WPB-type. Production started in early 1966 and was completed ...
Stalwart was laid down on 3 November 1982 by the Tacoma Boat Building Company. She was launched on 11 July 1983 and entered service with the United States Military Sealift Command on 12 April 1984. The ship served as an anti-submarine surveillance ship during the Cold War, then as an anti- drug smuggling vessel as part of the United States' War ...
USS Tacoma (PG-92) was an Asheville-class gunboat of the U.S. Navy and the fourth ship to be named after the city of Tacoma, Washington. Tacoma was the first in a series of revised Asheville-class gunboats. [2] Some sources call these revised boats Tacoma- or PG-92-class, [3] but the U.S. Navy officially designates them as Asheville-class. [4]
Puget Sound and the many adjacent waterways, inlets, and bays form a natural transportation route for much of the western part of Washington. For navigation purposes, Puget Sound was sometimes divided into the "upper Sound" referring to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, and the lower sound, referring to the waters from the Tacoma Narrows north to Admiralty Inlet.