St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company

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St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company
Aerial view of St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, 1950s
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	April 1942
Defunct	August 1945
Headquarters	Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Products	Liberty ships
Number of employees	20,000 (1944)
Parent	Merrill-Stevens

The St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company was created in Jacksonville, Florida during World War II to build Liberty ships.

Company history

The company was established by local shipbuilder and repairer Merrill-Stevens with $17 million invested by the United States Maritime Commission. The company began operations in April 1942. Between then and August 1945 it produced 82 ships. The workforce grew from an initial 258 to 7,000 by August 1942, and to 20,000 by 1944. The yard was closed in August 1945.

Ships built

Contract No.	Description	Price 1	Price 2
MCc 2427	30 EC2-S-C1	$53,824,850.87	$30,000,000
MCc 16555	52 EC2-S-C1	$54,973,286.20	$52,000,000
MCc 30837	12 T1-M-BT1 (tanker), 12 launched, 4 delivered	$12,361,347.47	$6,000,000

The yard was one of those "owned outright" by the Maritime Commission, with total investment estimated at $16,145,471 plus $1,375,010 for land.

List of ships built by St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company:

SS Richard Montgomery, Liberty ship, launched on 15 June 1943. Sunk in the Thames Estuary with explosive cargo still on board.
SS John Philip Sousa, Liberty ship, launched on 4 July 1943
USS Alkaid (AK-114), a Crater-class cargo ship, launched on 8 November 1943
USS Crux (AK-115), a Crater-class cargo ship, launched on 16 November 1943
USS Shaula (AK-118), a Crater-class cargo ship, launched on 23 November 1943
USS Matar (AK-119), a Crater-class cargo ship, launched on 30 November 1943
USS Baham (AG-71), a Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary ship, launched on 21 December 1943
USS Menkar (AK-123), a Crater-class cargo ship, launched on 31 December 1943
SS Edwin G. Weed, Liberty ship, launched on 29 January 1944
USS Melucta (AK-131), a Crater-class cargo ship, launched on 20 March 1944
SS Richard K. Call, Liberty ship, launched on 15 April 1944
USS Naticoke (AOG-66), a T1 tanker type gasoline tanker, launched on 7 April 1945
MS Transpet, was a tanker, launched on 5 May 1945.

Full list: shipbuildinghistory.com

References

"St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company". museumoffloridahistory.com. 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
"St. Johns River Shipbuilding". shipbuildinghistory.com. 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
"Project Liberty Ship". liberty-ship.com. 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
Investigation of Shipyard Profits. pp. 532–541.
Alphabetical listing of major war supply contracts, cumulative, June 1940 through September 1945, Vol3.
Shipyards and Facilities, Report of the Surplus Property Administration to The Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1945. p. 32.
"St. John's River Shipbuilding, Jacksonville FL". shipbuildinghistory. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

External links

List of ships built by St. Johns River Shipbuilding

v t e MARCOM ships built by St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida, during World War II
Type EC2-S-C1 ships "Liberty Ships"	Ponce De Leon John Gorrie Francis Asbury John J. Crittenden Sidney Lanier Robert Y. Hayne Richard Montgomery John Philip Sousa Henry Watterson George Dewey William Byrd Rufus C. Dawes Thomas Sully Dwight W. Morrow John S. Mosby Grant Wood Edward M. House Harvey Cushing William G. Sumner Peter Stuyvesant James Screven Napoleon B. Broward Arthur M. Huddell Owen Wister Elizabeth C. Bellamy John White Royal S. Copeland John Einig Edwin G. Weed Andrew Turnbull Henry S. Sanford James L. Ackerson Edward W. Bok Thomas A. McGinley Frederick Tresca Edward A. Filene Richard K. Call August Belmont Arthur R. Lewis George E. Merrick James K. Paulding Thomas J. Lyons Raymond Clapper Hugh J. Kilpatrick Noah Brown Hendrik Willem Van Loon Stephen Beasley Jasper F. Cropsey William Crane Gray Ethelbert Nevin W. S. Jennings Filipp Mazzei Henry Hadley Alfred I. Dupont Irvin S. Cobb Negley D. Cochran Anna Dickinson John Ringling Michael de Kovats John H. McIntosh Jerry S. Foley Robert Mills Morris C. Feinstone David L. Yulee George E. Waldo Harald Torsvik/ex-Henry B. Plant Frederic W. Galbraith C. W. Post Junius Smith Isaac M. Singer Telfair Stockton Louis Bamberger Isaac Mayer Wise Henry B. Plant Walter M. Christiansen Grover C. Hutcherson Fred C. Stebbins Harold A. Jordan John Miller James H. Courts Fred Herrling Thomas L. Haley
Type T1-M-BT1 ships Klickitat-class gasoline tankers	Klickitat Michigamme Nanticoke Nodaway Peconic Petaluma Piscataqua Quinnebaug Sebasticook Kiamichi Tellico Truckee

MARCOM ships built by St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida, during World War II

Type EC2-S-C1 ships
"Liberty Ships"

Type T1-M-BT1 ships
Klickitat-class gasoline tankers

v t e Liberty ships
Lists	A-F G-Je Je-L M-R S-Z
Subtypes	Acubens-class general stores issue ship Armadillo class tanker Crater-class cargo ship Guardian-class radar picket ship List of Subtypes
Survivors	SS John W. Brown SS Jeremiah O'Brien SS Arthur M. Huddell SS Albert M. Boe
Other	Liberty Fleet Day Port Chicago disaster Project Liberty Ship
See also	Park ship (Canadian equivalent) Fort ship (British equivalent) Ocean ship (Anglo-American predecessor) Victory ship (American follow-on) Empire ship (British ships owned by the Ministry of War Transport)
Category List

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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