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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Vigor Shipyards (redirect from Todd Shipbuilding Company)
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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Kaiser Shipyards (redirect from Kaiser Shipbuilding Company)
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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Hitachi Zosen Corporation (redirect from Hitachi Shipbuilding Corporation)
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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