Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard
Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard was a shipyard in Beaumont, Texas that opened in 1948. The yard is located on an island in the Neches River. The deep-water port shipyard was founded in 1917 as the Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company. Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company started as a World War I Emergency Shipbuilding Program yard. In 1922 the Pennsylvania Car & Foundry, of Sharon, Pennsylvania purchased the yard and renamed the yard Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc.. The yard built barges and rail cars and also operated under the name Petroleum Iron Works at the site. For World War II the yard build tugboats and barges as part of the emergency shipbuilding program. After the was Bethlehem Steel purchased the yard in 1948 as par to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard move the yard into a jackup rig offshore drilling rig yard. The yard closed in the 1980s with the rig market collapsed. Bethlehem Steel sold the yard in 1989 to Trinity Industries in 1989. Trinity Industries purchased a Panamax floating and continued operations. The Panamax floating was moved to New Orleans in 1994. Chicago Bridge & Iron Company purchased the yard in 2006. Chicago Bridge & Iron turned the yard into a fabrication yard. In 2017 Chicago Bridge & Iron Company closed the yard due to damage from Hurricane Harvey, ending work for 455 employees. Many of workers were relocated to other Chicago Bridge & Iron sites. The site is now Allegiant Industrial Island Park Campus that opend in 2018.[1][2][3][4]
Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company
Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (1919-1920) ships: (Cargo ships built for United States Shipping Board for World War I) [1]
- Swampscott Cargo Ship Oct. 1918
- Quemakoning Cargo Ship May 1919
- Oneco Cargo Ship April 1919
- Angelina Cargo Ship June 1919
- Awash Cargo Ship, completed as a barge
- Shelbank Schooner June 1920, completed as Marie F. Cummins
- Shelby Schooner May 1920 completed as Albert D. Cummins
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc.
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc. (1926-1947) built for World War II:[1][5]
- YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweeper
- Type C1 ship a C1-A and C1-M cargo ships
- Type V ship V4-M-A1 Tugboats
- Type N3 ship N3-S-A2 small coastal cargo ship.
- Type R ship R1-M-AV3, refrigerated cargo ships
- Examples:
- SS Kielce Type N3-S-A2
- USS Corduba (AF-32) a R1-M-AV3 Type R ship
- USS Kerstin (AF-34) R1-M-AV3
- USS Lucidor (AF-45) R1-M-AV3
- USS Pilot (AM-104) minesweeper
- USS Prevail (AM-107) minesweeper
- USS Pioneer (AM-105) minesweeper
- USS Portent (AM-106) minesweeper
- USS Muscatine (AK-197) C1-M-AV1 Type C1 Ship,
- Point Arena, V4-M-A1 Tugboat[6]
- Stratford Point V4-M-A1 Tugboat[7]
- SS Cape Sable C1-A Cargo, became UN Navy Sangay (AE 10).
- USS Adria R1-M-AV3 refrigerated cargo ship
Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard
Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard (1948-1982) built:[1]
- Semi-submersible platforms
- Jackup rigs
- Tower Barges
- Deck Barges
- Drill Barges
- Container Barge
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company Beaumont
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company Beaumont (1982-2017) closed the Beaumont work yard, called Beaumont Island Park Fabrication Services, in 2017 after the site was flooded due to Hurricane Harvey in September 2017. In 2008 Chicago Bridge & Iron Company sold the site to Port of Beaumont. Port of Beaumont entered into a partnership with Allegiant Industrial Island Park to rebuild the 75 acres site. [8][9][10]
Allegiant Industrial Island Park Campus
Allegiant Industrial opened the Allegiant Industrial Island Park Campus (2018- ) on the site in October 2018. The site has 500,000 square feet of welding and fabrication space. [11][12]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Bethlehem Beaumont, Pennsylvania Shipyards".
- ^ Bethlehem Steel Company Shipbuilding Division. A century of progress, 1849-1949: San Francisco Yard. San Francisco, 1949
- ^ ""Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas" · SHEC: Resources for Teachers". shec.ashp.cuny.edu.
- ^ CB&I to close facility in Beaumont due to Harvey damages, affecting 455 employees, Sept. 2007
- ^ Vachon, John (January 1, 1943). "Beaumont, Texas. Women welders and welding inspector at the Pennsylvania shipyards". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Tugboat Information". www.tugboatinformation.com.
- ^ "Tugboat Information". www.tugboatinformation.com.
- ^ kfdm.com, news, Port of Bmt enters partnership to develop former CB&I property, July 5, 2018
- ^ Port of Beaumont
- ^ Allegiant Industrial Island Park Campus Coming in 2018, July 19, 2018
- ^ Allegiant Industrial opens Island Park Campus in Beaumont, Texas, October 24, 2018
- ^ Allegiant Industrial Island Park Campus