Albina Engine & Machine Works

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USS PC-815, a subchaser built at Albina Engine & Machine Works in 1942 Uss pc-815 1.jpg
USS PC-815, a subchaser built at Albina Engine & Machine Works in 1942

Albina Engine & Machine Works was a shipyard along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] [2] It was located in the Albina area of Portland along N. River Street and N. Loring Street. [1] [3] Albina Engine & Machine Works was founded in 1904. The shipyard produced a number of freighters during World War I, but operated mainly as a repair yard during the 1920s and 1930s. The Albina yard expanded its workforce and production during Portland's World War II shipbuilding boom. It specialized in producing subchasers, vessels designed to combat German U-boats. Albina Engine & Machine Works also built Landing Craft Support boats and cargo ships. [1] [4] Business declined in the post-war years, and Albina Engine & Machine Works was sold to the Dillingham Corporation around 1971. [3] [5] [6]

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World War I

S.S. Point Bonita (American freighter, 1918) on a trial trip on 22 June 1918, near the yard of her builder, the Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon. This ship was in commission as USS Point Bonita (ID-3496) from October 1918 to April 1919 S.S. Point Bonita.jpg
S.S. Point Bonita (American freighter, 1918) on a trial trip on 22 June 1918, near the yard of her builder, the Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon. This ship was in commission as USS Point Bonita (ID-3496) from October 1918 to April 1919

For World War I in 1918 and 1919, Albina built 17 cargo ships. These were their first ships, Hulls #1 to 17. These were requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB). Some of the cargo ships built for World War I: [7]

Light vessel

Albina built three lightvessels for the U.S. Coast Guard. Each was: length of 133 feet 3 inches (40.6 m), 33 feet (10.1 m) beam and draft of 11 feet 9 inches (3.6 m) These were specially built as a self-propelled ship that would remain on station for nine months of a year. Outfitted with housekeeping and the light . [8] [9] [10]

World War II

Submarine chaser

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RPS Negros Occidental (PS-29)
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Another view of USS PC-815 on trials

21 of 343 PC-461-class submarine chasers built during World War II for the US Navy:

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USS Lodestone

PCE-842-class patrol craft

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BRP Cebu (PS-28)

20 of 68 PCE-842-class patrol craft submarine chaser built for World War II US Navy, 184 feet long with 794 DWT:

Landing Craft

Partially restored USS LCI(L)-713 in Portland, Oregon, in 2012 LCI-713 2012 - Portland Oregon.jpg
Partially restored USS LCI(L)-713 in Portland, Oregon, in 2012
The U.S. Navy large infantry landing craft USS LCI(L)-551 in May 1945 USS LCI(L)-551.jpg
The U.S. Navy large infantry landing craft USS LCI(L)-551 in May 1945
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A LCS(L)

Landing Craft were not given names. Albina built LCI(L) 1013 to LCI(L) 1033 in 1944. There were Landing Craft Infantry Large. LCI(L) had a displacement 216 tons light, 234 tons landing; and 389 tons loaded. LCI(L) had a length of 158' 5 1/2", beam of 23' 3", light draft of 3'1". To speed of 16 kts and 4 kts continuous. They had four to five Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, each gun was mounted inside of a round gun tub with a shield. LCI(L)-1022 became the USS Rail (AMCU-37). [15]

Albina built 27, LCC 25470 to LCC 25496 in 1943 and 1944. Landing Craft, Control Mark 1: displacement full, 30 tons, length56 feet - 17.1 m, beam 4 m, draft 1.2 m, top speed 13.5 kts, 450 HP, 2 diesel engines, armament two 90 mm gun. Landing Craft, Control were used by Scouts and Raiders leading the Invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. They had new radar system and help guide the landing craft on each landing. [17]

Albina built 15, LCC(2) 39044 to LCC(2) 39058, in 1944. Landing Craft, Control, Mark 2, 56 feet long, 30 tons LDT.

Albina built The Landing Craft Support (Large), or "LCS(L) Mark 3. Built from LCS(L) 61 to LCS(L) 78 and LCS(L) 48 to LCS(L) 60. Built on a standard LCI hull and was add more gunfire support and crew accommodation. They had a single 3"/50 caliber gun and/or two twin 40 mm cannon and numerous 20 mm cannon. Many were used in Pacific Theater invasions in late 1944 and into 1945.

Concrete Barge

These were a type of concrete ship a class of Type B ships. Steel shortages led the US military to order the construction of small fleets of ocean-going concrete barge and ships. Displacement: 245 long tons (249 t), full load: 1360 tons. Length:165 ft 4 in (50.39 m), beam: 42 ft (13 m), draft: 8 ft (2.4 m), crew of 3 men. YOGN were a class Non-self-propelled Gasoline Barge:

C1-MT-BU1

The C1-MT-BU1 was a subtype of a Cargo Type C1 ship, modified from the C1 design for use as lumber transports, 5,032 DWT, launched in late 1945 and early 1946. [21]

Coastal Freighter – FS

Albina built 20 Coastal Freighter, type FS in 1944 and 1945. Most were transferred to the Dutch Government. There they were used in Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia for inter-island shipping. The Dutch Government sold them to Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij in 1948. These were 555 DWT and 176 feet long. [22]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kramer, George (December 2006). "It Takes More Than Bullets: The WWII Homefront in Portland, Oregon" (PDF) (Report). Eugene, Oregon: Heritage Research Associates. Section 4.7. OCLC   892120709.
  2. ↑ "Shipbuilding: Albina's Al". Time . September 27, 1943.
  3. 1 2 "Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland OR". ShipbuildingHistory.com. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The Albina Engine & Machine Works office, c.1943". Oregon History Project. Oregon Historical Society . Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ "NH 81532 USS LCS(L)(3) 50". NHHC.
  6. ↑ "19-N-61184 USS LCC-C25491". NHHC.
  7. ↑ Pacific American Steamship Association; Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (1918). "Portland Ship Deliveries". Pacific Marine Review. 15 (September). San Francisco: J.S. Hines: 117. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Lightship New Bedford LV 114/WAL 536". Lighthousefriends.com. May 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Swiftsure Light vessel".
  10. ↑ "defense.gov, U.S. Coast Guard Lightships & Those of the U.S. Lighthouse Service" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "Blunts Reef Lightship LV100 Wal523". www.uscglightshipsailors.org.
  12. ↑ "Swiftsure Bank Lightship Station History". www.uscglightshipsailors.org.
  13. ↑ "Submarine Chaser PC". NavSource.
  14. ↑ "PCE-867". NavSource.
  15. ↑ "Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L)-1018". NavSource.
  16. ↑ "Landing Craft Other LCM LCVP LCPL LCV LCP LCC". shipbuildinghistory.com.
  17. ↑ "LCC - Landing Craft Control". landingship.com.
  18. ↑ "navy.mil, U.S. Navy to Provide 500,000 Gallons of Fresh Water to Fukushima Power Plant, 3/25/2011". Archived from the original on August 5, 2012.
  19. ↑ "US rushes freshwater to help Japan nuclear plant". San Diego Union-Tribune. March 26, 2011.
  20. ↑ "Yard Oiler (YOG) Photo Index". NavSource.
  21. ↑ "C1 Cargo Ships". shipbuildinghistory.com.
  22. ↑ hipbuildinghistory.com, Army Coastal Freighter -FS

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