Shipyard - Historic Shipyards

Historic Shipyards

• Lothal in Gujarat, India circa 2400 BC to 1900 BC
• Naupactus
• Roman shipyard of Stifone (Narni)
• Blackwall Yard 1614 to 1987
• Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland, 1711–1984
• Kraljevica Shipyard established on 28 April 1729 and still operating yard
• Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd 1837 to 1912
• William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland 1840 to 1963
• John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland 1851 to 1972
• Gdańsk Shipyard the birthplace of Solidarity Movement – (still a working yard)
• Swan Hunter – (closed in April 2006 and sold to Bharati Shipyards, India's second largest private sector shipbuilder)
• Harland and Wolff – (still a working yard)
• Cammell Laird – (still a working repair yard)
• Blohm + Voss, where the Bismarck was constructed (still a major yard)
• Royal Naval Dockyards in the UK (including Woolwich, Deptford, Chatham, Portsmouth and Devonport), Gibraltar, Bombay, Bermuda, Hong Kong and elsewhere worldwide
• Bethlehem Steel Corporation had 15 shipyards during World War II
  • Staten Island Shipyard 1895
• Charlestown Navy Yard, later Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts 1800 to 1974
• Ulstein Verft, Norway, established in 1917 (still a working yard under the Ulstein Group)
• Navy Island, Ontario, Canada – French in the 18th century, then British 1763 to War of 1812
• Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, California, 1854 to 1996
• New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the New York Navy Yard, and United States Navy Yard, New York 1801 to 1966
• Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 1799 to 1995, at two locations
• San Francisco Naval Shipyard, later Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, then Treasure Island Naval Station Hunters Point Annex, 1941 to 1994
• Potrero Point, San Francisco, California, 1880s – still a working yard
• Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 1943 to 1997
• Golden Horn Shipyard, (Haliç Tersaneleri), Turkey, established in 1455 – still a working yard
• Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, located on Maine-New Hampshire border; Operational: 1800 to present, making it the oldest continuously-operating shipyard of the US Navy.
• Chantiers de l'Atlantique(Aker Yard France) - established in 1861 (still a working yard)
• Nantes-Indret, France - Establish in 1771 it built ships for the American Revolution including the Deane.
• 3. Maj – One of the largest shipyard in Mediterranean, established in 1892 in Rijeka (still a working yard)
• SLKB Komarno (Komárno) – Slovak Shipyard Komárno – European shipyard on Danube, established in 1898
• Lindstrom Shipyard 1899–1918 – (The shipyard was built in Aberdeen, Washington by John E. Lindstrom Jr. and associate Charles R. Green, Carl Almer Lindstrom (Designer), Andrew P. Lindstrom, John "Rigger" Johnson).