Ships Built
Some of the ships built by Union Iron Works include:
- USS Charleston (C-2) launched in 1888
- USS San Francisco (C-5) launched 26 October 1889
- USS Olympia (C-6) launched in 1892
- USS Oregon (BB-3) launched in 1893
- Japanese cruiser Chitose launched in 1898
- USS Paul Jones (DD-10) launched in 1902
- Adder class submarines Grampus and Pike for the United States Navy in 1902 and 1903
- Tanker SS Acme for the United States Shipping Board in 1916
Ships reconstructed by the Union Iron Works include:
- SS Columbia - Refitted unsuccessfully due to heavy damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Refit and repairs completed elsewhere.
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Famous quotes containing the words ships and/or built:
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“Indigenous to Minnesota, and almost completely ignored by its people, are the stark, unornamented, functional clusters of concrete—Minnesota’s grain elevators. These may be said to express unconsciously all the principles of modernism, being built for use only, with little regard for the tenets of esthetic design.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)