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    Brown Shipbuilding Company was founded in Houston, Texas, in 1942 as a subsidiary of Brown and Root (now KBR) by brothers Herman and George R. Brown to...
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    John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania...
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    three ferries for Texas. In 1949 Todd moved the main operation to the Brown Shipbuilding yard in Houston that they had leased. The Pelican Island Galveston...
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    2022. Samuel B. Roberts was laid down on 6 December 1943, by the Brown Shipbuilding Company of Houston, Texas. She was launched on 20 January 1944, sponsored...
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  • KBR, Inc. (redirect from Brown and Root)
    Corpus Christi and its subsidiary Brown Shipbuilding produced a series of warships for the U.S. government. In 1947 Brown & Root built one of the world's...
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    85 were completed by two shipbuilding companies: Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas (47), and Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas (38). Most...
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  • List of shipbuilders and shipyards (category Shipbuilding companies)
    Shipyard China State Shipbuilding Corporation China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company Guangzhou...
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  • California Brown Hotel (disambiguation) Brown Shipbuilding, a World War II American shipbuilding company USS Brown, two US Navy vessels Fort Brown, Texas...
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    hull numbers for WGT and FMR are still incomplete, price of $2,157 for Brown/WGT DE-423 is assumed to be a typo other classes missing (work in progress)...
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    following Pearl Harbor. Dennis was launched on 4 December 1943 by Brown Shipbuilding, in Houston, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. J. L. Dennis, mother of the...
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    public. The third Stewart (DE-238) was laid down at Houston, Texas, by Brown Shipbuilding on 15 July 1942; launched on 22 November; sponsored by Mrs. William...
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    Butler class Builders Consolidated Steel, TX (34) Brown Shipbuilding, TX (23) Federal Shipbuilding, NJ (16) Boston Navy Yard, MA (10) Operators  United...
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    Stafford's keel was laid down on 29 November 1943 at Houston, Texas, by Brown Shipbuilding. The ship was launched on 11 January 1944, sponsored by Miss Flora...
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    1999-02-28 Brown Shipbuilding Co. Delivered in Seattle 610 →658a Girin 기린 (麒麟) USS LSM-19 513/912 1944-05-14 1956-07-03 - 1999-02-28 Brown Shipbuilding Co. -...
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    escort ships with limited anti-air capability. They were fitted with Denny-Brown fin stabilisers and a HACS fire control system. Three ships were built:...
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  • Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 5 October 2023. "GEO. BROWN & Co". Inverclyde Shipbuilding. Cartsburn Publishing. 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2023...
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    PC-1241 ... PC-1250 PC-1600, PC-1601 (see Adroit-class minesweeper) Brown Shipbuilding, TX (12) PC-565 ... PC-568 PC-608 ... PC-611 PC-1251 ... PC-1254 Jeffboat...
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    Shipbuilding in the American colonies was the development of the shipbuilding industry in North America (modern Canada, the United States, and Bermuda)...
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    Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited (VSEL) was a shipbuilding company based at Barrow-in-Furness, England that built warships, civilian ships...
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    rockets. White River was named LSMR-536 when she was launched by the Brown Shipbuilding Company in 1945 and during her Korean War service, only acquiring...
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  • The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields...
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    as an advanced training center for bombardiers and navigators. The Brown Shipbuilding Company was founded in 1942 to build ships for the U.S. Navy during...
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    the confluence of Greens Bayou: Todd Houston Shipbuilding built mostly Liberty Ships and Brown Shipbuilding built a substantial number of destroyer escorts...
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    Guadalcanal campaign. Douglas A. Munro was launched 8 March 1944 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas; sponsored by Lieutenant (junior grade) Edith...
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    awarded the Navy Cross. USS Pettit was laid down 6 February 1943 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas; launched 28 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Robert...
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    The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the United States west coast during World War II. Kaiser ranked 20th among U.S. corporations...
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  • the last word literally means shipbuilding, no longer builds ships, having spun off the business to Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in 2002, nor is it...
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    Guadalcanal campaign. The ship was launched on 10 January 1944, by Brown Shipbuilding Co., at their yard in Houston, Texas, sponsored by Mrs. Henry S. Miller...
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    to 1919. Hydraulic was built in 1900 as a steam yacht by the A. C. Brown Shipbuilding Company at Tottenville on Staten Island, New York. On 29 May 1918...
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    construction three days after the outbreak of the Second World War. John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd laid down her keel at their Clydebank yard...
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