Moore Equipment Company

Shipyard in Stockton, California, United States This article is about Company in Stockton, California. For information about company in Oakland, California, see Moore Dry Dock Company.

37°57′18″N 121°17′57″W / 37.9550582°N 121.29923°W / 37.9550582; -121.29923

Moore Equipment Company was founded in 1929 by Stanley S. Moore and his father in Stockton, California. Moore Equipment Company a repair and manufacture company of farm machines, road machines and tools. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Moore Equipment Company built a shipyard and switched over to military construction and built: US Navy YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derricks, landing craft and barges. Moore Equipment Company also did work for the US Army repairing and rebuilding jeeps by way of the Ford Motor in Richmond. The shipyard also did Navy ship repair. Moore Equipment Company's main work before the war was on tractors, cranes, trucks, bulldozers, power winches, road scrapers and tools. The Moore Equipment Company office was at 1250 South Wilson Way, Stockton, now the Fairgrounds Industrial Park. Equipment Company sold the factory on February 15, 1944 to International Harvester Company. The shipyard closed after the war.</ref>

Moore Equipment Company in Stockton, California built YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:

Name	Built	Notes
YSD 35	1943	Worked 17th Naval District, accidentally lost, 16 May 1946
YSD 36	1943	Lost on 9 August 1946 off Okinawa
YSD 37	1943	Lost off Eniwetok 10 December 1946
YSD 42	1943	lost off Guam May 1976
YSD 43	1943	Lost Lost off Eniwetok October 1946
YSD 44	1943
YSD 45	1943
YSD 46	1943	To National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) in 1974
YSD 47	1943
YSD 48	1943	Typhoon Louise at Okinawa, 9 October 1945, Lost
YSD 49	1943
YSD 50	1943

Landing craft

Moore Equipment Company built Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) Mark 6. Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 6 had :

Power plant:
- 2 Detroit 6-71 diesel engines; 348 hp (260 kW) sustained; twin shaft; or
- 2 Detroit 8V-71 diesel engines; 460 hp (340 kW) sustained; twin shaft
Length: 56.2 feet (17.1 m)
Beam: 14 feet (4.3 m)
Displacement: 64 tons (65 metric tons) full load
Speed: 9 knots (10.3 mph, 16.6 km/h)
Range: 130 miles (240 km) at 9 knots (17 km/h)
Military lift: 34 tons (34.6 metric tons) or 80 troops
Crew: 5

Barges

Built in 1945 four YC barges:

YC-1089, barge a Type B ship, delivered 11 September 1945, remove from Navy 13 March 2001. Displacement 120 t.(lite) 590 t.(full); Length 110 feet; Beam 35 feet and Draft 8 feet.
YC-1090
YC-1091
YC-1092

References

Stanley S. Moore v. Commissioner, Docket Nos. 31921, 31922, 12 T.C.M. 925 (1953), United States Tax Court. Entered August 14, 1953.
California during the Second World War, Shipbuilding in Stockton, by Justin Ruhge
Agricultural Machinery - Calif - Stockton: Moore Equipment Co. calisphere
Agricultural Machinery - Calif - Stockton: Moore Equipment Co. Caterpillar tractor calisphere
Moore Equipment Company office at 1250 South Wilson Way, Stockton, calisphere
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State Listing of Major War Supply Contracts Active as of June 30, 1945, By United States. War Production Board
Small Landing Craft - LCM shipbuildinghistory.com
A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program, Volumes 30-37, page 2584
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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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