Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders

37°57′17″N 121°18′06″W / 37.954857°N 121.301583°W / 37.954857; -121.301583

Hickinbotham Brothers in 1894 in Stockton, California

Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders was a shipbuilding company in Stockton, California on the Stockton Channel. To support the World War II demand for ships Hickinbotham Brothers built: Type V ship Tugboats, Tank Landing Barge, balloon barges and Coastal Freighter (design 381, 381 tons). Hickinbotham Brothers also called Hickinbotham Brothers Construction Division was opened in 1852 and is still a working shipyard. Hickinbotham Brothers started by building: horse carriages, horse wagons, threshers and Combine harvester. In 1942 Ronald Guntert and L. R. Zimmerman ran the company as a partnership on the Banner Island waterfront. After World War II, Guntert and Zimmerman purchased Hickinbotham out and renamed the company Guntert & Zimmerman Construction. In 1984 the company moved to Ripon, California on the Stanislaus River, as the business continues. The Banner Island waterfront yard was on the deepwater port on the Stockton Ship Channel of the Pacific Ocean and an inland port located more than seventy nautical miles from the ocean, on the Stockton Channel and San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel (before it joins the Sacramento River to empty into Suisun Bay. Notable ship: USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177).[1][2][3][4]

Ships

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Original Name name or # Original Owner Type Delivered Notes Feet Tons Hull # Ship ID# O.N.
BTL 455 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 Sank on August 2, 1943 off Shemya Island 50
BTL 456 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 457 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 458 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 459 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 460 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 461 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 462 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 463 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 464 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 465 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 466 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 467 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 468 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 469 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 470 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 471 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 472 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 473 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 474 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 546 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BTL 547 US Army Tank Landing Barge 12/42-1/43 50
BD 482 US Army Derrick Barge 3/43-4/43 Sold as Beaver 110 602235
BD 483 US Army Derrick Barge 3/43-4/43 Sold as Shelby 110 252566
BD  ? US Army Derrick Barge 6/43-9/43 Sold as Hercules, now D. B. Portland 110 561614
BD 799 US Army Derrick Barge 6/43-9/43 110
BD 800 US Army Derrick Barge 6/43-9/43 110
BD 801 US Army Derrick Barge 6/43-9/43 110
BD 802 US Army Derrick Barge 6/43-9/43 110
ST 146 US Army Small Tug 6/43-10/43 74
ST ? US Army Small Tug 6/43-10/43 Sold as Mary Ann Brusco 74 247288
ST 147 US Army Small Tug 6/43-10/43 74
ST 148 US Army Small Tug 6/43-10/43 74
ST 149 US Army Small Tug 6/43-10/43 To Portugal 1953 as Monte Grande 74
BSP 1621 US Army SP Balloon Barge Sep-43 52
BSP 1622 US Army SP Balloon Barge Sep-43 52
BB 1623 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1624 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1625 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 Sold as Cavale 52 571056
BB 1626 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1627 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1628 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1629 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1630 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1631 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1632 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 52
BB 1633 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1634 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1635 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1636 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1637 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1638 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1639 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1640 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1641 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
BB 1642 US Army Balloon Barge 9/43-10/43 75
US Army Tender 1944 62
US Army Tender 1944 62
FS 404 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG to the Philippines as Venus 176 560
FS 405 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG, to the Philippines as Vizcaya 176 560
FS 406 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG, lost in typhoon off Okinawa in 1945 176 560
FS 407 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG, to USN AKL 31 in 1950, to DoI 1975 as Robert de Brum 176 560
FS 408 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG 176 560
FS 409 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG 176 560
FS 410 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG, sank in typhoon off Okinawa in 1945 176 560
FS 411 US Army Coastal Freighter 10/44-4/45 USCG, to USN 1950 as USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177), wrecked on reef in 2015, Beam 32', Draft 14' 3, Speed 12 kts., crew 26, two 500 hp GE Diesel engines 176 560
White Star Fishing Vessel 1946 Now Ciudad de Mexico, Frist Guntert & Zimmerman 441
Ferry No. 14 San Joaquin Co. Ferry 1946 50 36 538925
Victorias Victorias Milling Tug 1947 111
BD 6646 US Army Derrick Barge 1954 To USN as YD 218, sold 1967 140 1,000
BD 6652 US Army Derrick Barge 1954 To USN as YD 222, reclassified as IX 536 2002 140 1,000
Otter Trucano Const. Tug 1961 64 50 287019

See also

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References

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  1. ^ shipbuildinghistory.com Hickinbotham Brothers
  2. ^ soundingsmag.net, Stockton’s China Trade and Sperry’s Global Empire, April 2020
  3. ^ militarymuseum.org Stockton Shipyards
  4. ^ .navsource.org USNS Shearwater (T-AG-177)
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