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US New Orleans shipbuilding company

Pendleton Shipyard Company
Founded	1941
Founder	Pendleton E. Leyde
Defunct	1958
Fate	sold to Calmes Engineering
Successor	Calmes Engineering
Headquarters	Norfolk, Virginia

Pendleton Shipyard Company was a shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana started by Pendleton E. Leyde in 1941. Pendleton Shipyard Company built ships for World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. The shipyard was at the Florida Avenue Wharf at 29°58′46″N 90°01′31″W / 29.979537°N 90.025385°W / 29.979537; -90.025385. Pendleton Shipyard Company sold the yard to John Wise Calmes, who opened Calmes Engineering at the site. The yard also inspected and delivered small ships built in Mississippi River shipyards to the United States Navy. The Calmes Engineering shipyard closed in April 1958 shortly after the death of Calmes.

Pendleton Shipyard Company ships

V4-M-A1

V4-M-A1 is a Type V ship, that is, a tugboat. The V4-M-A1 tugboats were the largest and most powerful tugs in the world when they were built. They were named after lighthouses. The V4-M-A1 tugboats had steel hulls and displaced 1,613 tons. They were 195 feet long, with a beam of 37.5 foot, a draft of 15.5 feet, and a maximum speed of 14 knots. There were two engine manufacturers: National Supply Company, with 8-cylinder sets of 3,200 bhp and the Enterprise Engine & Trading Company with 6 cylinders and 2,340 bhp power.

N3-S-A2

N3-S-A2 is a Type N3 ship, a small coastal cargo ship. N3-S-A2 ships are 258 ft 9 in (78.87 m) long, have a beam of 42 ft 1 in (12.83 m), a tonnage of 2,905 dwt, a displacement of 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) and a draft of 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m). The ship has 1300 shaft horsepower with a top speed of 10.2 knots (11.7 mph; 18.9 km/h).

These ships were built by the Pendleton Shipyard Company.

*	Name	Ship type	Gross tons	Length (feet)	Built	Notes
*	Matagorda	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Jun-43	Scrapped 1973
*	Aransas Pass	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Jun-43	Scrapped 1973
*	Sombrero Key	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Jun-43	To Argentina 1965 as Thompson, scrapped
*	Dry Tortugas	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Jul-43	To Argentina 1965 as Goyena, scrapped
*	Southwest Pass	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Aug-43	Scrapped 1973
*	Montauk Point	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Sep-43	To Mexico 1969 as R 2, later Quetzalcoatl (A 12)
*	Bayou St. John	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Nov-43	Scrapped 1977
*	Mobile Point	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Dec-43	Sank 1944
*	Race Point	V4-M-A1	1,117	185	Feb-44	Scrapped 1972
*	Samuel F. Dewing	N3-S-A2	1,885	250	Apr-44	Sold 1948, scrapped 1963
*	Samuel A. Fabens	N3-S-A2	1,885	250	May-44	Sold 1948, wrecked 1960, salvaged, wrecked 1966
*	Alfred M. Lunt	N3-S-A2	1,885	250	Jul-44	Sold 1946, wrecked 1968
*	Benjamin M. Melcher	N3-S-A2	1,885	250	Aug-44	Sold 1946, scrapped

Calmes Engineering ships

These ships were built by Calmes Engineering.

	Name	Buit for	Type	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Built	Notes
*	Walnut	Corps of Engineers	Towboat	26	50	1947	Sold 1992 as Walnut, later Sara C, now M/V Sara C
*	Chestnut	Corps of Engineers	Towboat	26	50	1948	Sold 1996
*		Florida Power Corp	Tank Barge	642	175	1949
*	Gator	Florida Power Corp	Tank Barge	642	175	1949	Active
*	CMT 18	Canton Marine Towing	Tank Barge	276	139	1951	Active
*	BC 64 to 64	US Army	Open Lighter	170	110	1952	10 deck barges
*	BC 6470	US Army	Open Lighter	170	110	1952	To USN as YC 1568, sold 2004
*	Redstone	Corps of Engineers	Towboat	62	64	1952	Sold 1997 as Redstone, then Hunter Eagle, Retriever, now Chris D
*	Barge No. 29	Hannah Marine Corp	Freight Barge	1,387	254	1952
*	Robert G. West	Corps of Engineers	Towboat	203	84	1953	Sold 1986 as Robert G. West, now Hanging Dog
*	MR-403	Trinity Baton Rouge	Freight Barge	786	200	1954
*	Sinclair Memphis	Sinclair Refining	Towboat	175	85	1954	Later Fat Lady Pie, now Kalliope
*	Shawnee	Capt. Paul J. Griffin	Towboat	34	47	1954	Now Barbara Sue
*	Bunker Delaware	Bunker Group Virginia	Tank Barge	1,307	227	1955	Active
*	Sallie Estelle	Randolph Construction	Towboat	50	47	1955	Later Nathan J, now Judy Rae
*	Intercity No 1	TT Barge Services	Freight Barge	1,258	270	1955	Active
*		Corps of Engineers	10 Barges			1955-6
*	Electra	Electric Energy	Towboat	39	48	1956	Active.
*	Captain Archie	Mike Hooks	Towboat	37	49	1957

References

^ "Pendleton".
"Pendleton Shipyards ship construction site, New Orleans, Louisiana, 16 August 1942 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories". www.ww2online.org.
"Liberty ship construction at Pendleton Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1943 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories". www.ww2online.org.
"Outboard Profiles of Maritime Commission Designed Vessels". drawings.usmaritimecommission.de.
"N3-S-A1 Type | MARAD". www.maritime.dot.gov.
"Tugboat Information". www.tugboatinformation.com.
"TOWBOAT PHOTOS JOHN BOWMAN's COLOR BOAT PHOTOS A – C Post 1 of 6 – JOHN BOWMAN".

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

v t e Type N3-S ships
N3-S-A1	Alden Gifford Anthony Enright Asa Eldridge Ashbel Hubbard Ashman J. Clough Bailey Foster Benjamin Sherburn Benjamin Tay Caleb Sprague Calvin Coggin Charles H. Salter Charles Treadwell Clement T. Jayne Cyrus Sears Elkanah Crowell Freeman Hatch Gurden Gates Jesse G. Cotting John W. Arey Josiah P. Cressey Justin Doane Kimball Harlow Laban Howes Moses Gay Reuben Snow Richard Bearse Rodney Baxter Samuel V. Shreve Samuel Very Tully Crosby Waldo Hill Watson Ferris William Brewster William Bursley William Homan William Howland
N3-S-A2	Alfred M. Lunt Allen H. Knowles Benjamin M. Melcher Charles Hull Charles McDonnell Charles Porter Low David R. Le Craw E.C. Gardner Eben H. Linnell Edgar Wakeman Edward Nickels Elisha Whitney Ephraim Harding Frank Dale Frederick Lendholm George Crocker George W. Brown George W. Tucker Harry Barber Horace H. Watson James A. Little James Miller John B. Joyce John D. Whidden John J. Jackson John Leckie Joseph Hamilton Josiah A. Mitchell Judah P. Baker Luther Hurd Nathaniel Ingersoll Northern Adventurer Northern Archer Northern Captain Northern Chieftain Northern Courier Northern Explorer Northern Hawker Northern Pioneer Northern Squire Northern Stalker Northern Trapper Northern Voyager Northern Wanderer Northern Warrior Northern Yeoman Otis White Philip Dumaresq Phineas Winsor Richard W. Dixie Robert H. Waterman Samuel A. Fabens Samuel F. Dewing Samuel G. Borland Samuel S. Curwen Samuel Samuels Samuel Yeaton William Frederick Howes William S. Colley

Type N3-S ships

N3-S-A1

N3-S-A2

Categories:

Pendleton Shipyard Company ships

V4-M-A1

N3-S-A2

Calmes Engineering ships

See also

References