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37°51′34″N 122°29′02″W / 37.859545°N 122.483895°W / 37.859545; -122.483895 Madden, Lewis or Madden and Lewis Company or Madden and Lewis Corp. was a wooden shipbuilding company in Sausalito, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Madden, Lewis shipyard switched over to military construction and built: US Navy tugboats and Harbour Defence Motor Launch. The company was founded by James Herbert Madden Sr., who was also active in the Sausalito Yacht Club. James Herbert Madden Sr. and Gertrude Murphy Madden raised five children in Sausalito. Madden and Lewis Company also owned the Sausalito side of the Golden Gate Ferry Company that ran before the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge, the ferry was run by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad now the site of the Sausalito Ferry Terminal. After the war the yard returned to pleasure craft building and repair. On March 19, 1960 a large fire broke out at the boatyard. The boatyard was in Richardson Bay at 200 Johnson street, Sausalito, near the current Sausalito Yacht Harbor.

US Navy Tugboats

US Navy YTL, 60-foot, 70 ton, Harbor Tugs, Little, YLT had a displacement 70 tons lite, 80 tons full, a length of 66 feet, a beam of 18 feet, a draft of 4 feet 11 inches, a crew of 4, no armament, and diesel engine with a single propeller with 300shp. A Type V ship.

Name	Notes

YTL 316	Sold in 1947
YTL 317	Sold foreign in 1946
YTL 318	Sold foreign in 1947
YTL 319	Sold foreign in 1947
YTL 320	Sold foreign in 1947

Harbour Defence Motor Launch

Madden and Lewis built Harbour Defence Motor Launch (HDML) were built for the US Navy, but all four went to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) for anti-submarine patrols. HDML had a length of 76 feet, a beam of 16 feet a draft: 5 feet and a displacement of 54-tons. HDML had two engines. They had a crew of 10 men, armed with one 3 or 4 pounder gun and four .303 AA guns. Had a top speed of 11 knots.

Nane	Delivered	Note
Q 1183	6-Mar-43	To RNZN, later Cook (SDML), Maori (P 3551), to FPS as HMNZS Mako, sold in 1976

Q 1184	9-Mar-43	To RNZN, later Philomel (SDML), as P-3552, to FPS as Paea, sold in 1985

Q 1185	6-Apr-43	To RNZN, to RNZA 1946 as Bombardier, to RNZN 1959 as Manga, (P 3567), sold in 1981, later Olphert, Haimona, abandoned

Q 1186	22-Apr-43	To RNZN, sold 1947, later Olphert 1956, Parore 1967,

References

Sausalito News, Volume 75, Number 12, 19 March 1960
Alphabetic Listing of Major War Supply Contracts: Cumulative June 1940
Yard Tugs Built or Acquired During WWII shipbuildinghistory
Mary Catherine Madden 1932 - 2019, legacy.com
Navy Seagoing Tugs and Related Craft (1944)
boat.net
HDML Manga > Haimoana, April 26, 2020
WWII Construction by Other Boatbuilders on the Pacific Coast shipbuildinghistory.com
HMNZS Kuparu HDML, 2018

v t e World War II Maritime Commission ship designs
Cargo designs	Type C1 Type C2 Type C3 Type C4 Type C5 (Type C6) (Type C7) (Type C8) (Type C9) Type N3
Emergency cargo	Liberty ship ("EC2-S-C1") Victory ship ("VC2-S-AP1")
Tanker	T1 tanker T2 tanker T3 tanker Liberty ship ("Z-ET1-S-C3")
Special-purpose	Type S2 ("Tacoma-class frigate") Type S3-S2-BP ("Landing Ship, Tank") Type S3-S2-BP1 ("Neptune-class cable layer") Type S4-S2-BB3 ("Casablanca-class escort carrier") Type S4-SE2-BD1 ("Gilliam-class attack transport") Type S4-SE2-BE1 ("Artemis-class attack cargo ship") "Crane vessel-Derrick Barge"
Miscellaneous-cargo	Type L6 ("Lakers") Type N ("Coastal Cargo") Type P1 ("Passenger") Type P2 ("Passenger") Type R ("Refrigerated") Type B ("Barge")
Tugs	Type V ("Tugs")
See also:- Empire ship, Fort ship, Park ship, Ocean ship.

v t e United States naval ship classes of World War II
Aircraft carriers	Lexington Ranger Yorktown Wasp Essex Midway
Light aircraft carriers	Independence Saipan
Escort carriers	Long Island Charger Bogue Sangamon Casablanca Commencement Bay
Battleships	Wyoming New York Nevada Pennsylvania New Mexico Tennessee Colorado North Carolina South Dakota Iowa Montana
Large cruisers	Alaska
Heavy cruisers	Pensacola Northampton Portland New Orleans Wichita Baltimore Oregon City Des Moines
Light cruisers	Omaha Brooklyn Atlanta Cleveland Fargo Juneau Worcester CL-154
Gunboats	Dubuque Sacramento Asheville Plymouth Williamsburg St. Augustine Vixen Erie PGM-1 PGM-9
Destroyers	Sampson Caldwell Wickes Clemson Farragut Porter Mahan Gridley Bagley Somers Benham Sims Benson Stevenson Gleaves Fletcher Allen M. Sumner Robert H. Smith Gearing
Destroyer escorts	Evarts Buckley Cannon Edsall Rudderow John C. Butler
Patrol frigates	Asheville Tacoma
Patrol boats	Action PT boat
Minelayers	Oglala Wassuc Monadnock Miantonomah Terror Keokuk Salem Weehawken Camanche Chimo
Minesweepers	Lapwing Raven Auk Eagle Hawk Admirable
Submarines	O R S Barracuda Argonaut Narwhal Dolphin Cachalot Porpoise Salmon Sargo Tambor Mackerel Gato Balao Tench
Tankers	T1 tanker T2 tanker T3 tanker
Cargo ships	Liberty Victory Haskell Andromeda Arcturus Artemis Tolland Alstede Aldebaran Adria Acubens Arctic Denebola Hyades Mizar
Auxiliary ships	Ammunition Floating drydock Repair dock Barracks Collier Combat stores Destroyer tender Depot High-speed transport Hospital Ice cream barge Net laying Motor torpedo boat tender Reefer Oiler Repair Seaplane tender Submarine tender Underway replenishment
C Completed after the war S Single ship of class X Cancelled

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US Navy Tugboats

Harbour Defence Motor Launch

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