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Site Name: Todd Shipyard Corp. also known as Todd Pacific Shipyards. Originally known as Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Location: The site is located at 710 Front Street in the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California between Front Street and Regan Street to the south, Pacific Avenue to the southwest, and the Los Angeles ...
Downes ' s keel was laid 5 September 1968 by Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., Seattle, Washington, and was christened on 13 December 1969 during launching by her sponsor Mrs. Philip L. Kelton, the great-granddaughter of the late Commodore John Downes. The ship was commissioned 28 August 1971.
Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, (Todd, San Pedro) 1980–2002 Transferred to Polish Navy as ORP Gen. T. Kościuszko, 28 June 2002: Duncan: FFG-10 Short Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle Division 1980–1994 Transferred to Turkish Naval Forces as a parts hulk, 5 April 1999. Scuttled October 2017: Clark: FFG-11 Short
The ship was laid down at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in Tacoma, Washington, originally under the name Trocadero Bay, on 4 December 1944. During construction, she was renamed Point Cruz , after a significant battle fought during the Guadalcanal campaign in November 1942.
Jan 4, 2024 · Suffice to say that Todd Pacific Shipyards, located on Harbor Island, "was an extremely active place all during the war" (Warren, 141). On November 4, 1944, when a destroyer christened Stormes slid down one of the shipways, it marked a record for a Seattle shipyard – 35 destroyers produced in five years.
Incorporated: 1916 as William H. Todd Corporation. Employees: 650. Sales: $69.09 million. Stock Exchanges: New York. SICs: 3731 Ship Building & Repair. Company History: Once the largest independent ship building company in the United States, Todd Shipyards Corporation operates one shipyard in Seattle, Washington, through its subsidiary, Todd ...
Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division was a shipyard in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. Before applying its last corporate name, the shipyard had been called Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company and Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division. Under those three names, the San Pedro yard built at least 130 ships from 1917 to 1989 ...
