Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipbuilding Division was created in 1905 when the Bethlehem Steel Corporation of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , acquired the San Francisco -based shipyard Union Iron Works . In 1917 it was incorporated as Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited .
5-863: Hoboken Shipyard or Hoboken Yard or Beth Steel Hoboken (sometimes called The Plant) was a Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard that operated from 1938 to 1982 in Hoboken, New Jersey . Bethlehem Steel purchased the shipyard in 1938. The shipyard was founded in 1890 by the W. & A. Fletcher Company . In 1928 Fletcher sold the yard to United Dry Dock Company, called the Fletcher Plant. W. & A. Fletcher Co. merged with five other New York-based shipbuilding/ship repair companies to form United Dry Docks, Inc. in February 1929. The yard had United States Navy contracts for ship repair. In November 1982 Eliot Braswell, with Hoboken Shipyard, purchased
10-543: The Hudson River at 40°45′07″N 74°01′25″W / 40.752029°N 74.0235°W / 40.752029; -74.0235 . Hoboken Historical Museum is last standing building of the former shipyard. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation The division's headquarters were moved to Quincy, Massachusetts , after acquiring the Fore River Shipyard in 1913. In 1940, Bethlehem Shipbuilding
15-545: The Two Ocean Navy program and its war-time successors by the military establishment. In 1964, the now-corporate headquarters moved to Sparrows Point, Maryland , southeast of Baltimore , whose shipyard had been acquired in 1916. The Quincy / Fore River yard was sold to General Dynamics Corporation in the mid-1960s, and closed in 1986. The Alameda Works Shipyard in California was closed by Bethlehem Steel in
20-428: The yard. The shipyard had been running at a loss when sold. Braswell was able to make cuts and keep the yard open. Braswell kept 103 workers and let the others go. Braswell also hired new workers. In 1999 the yard was closed and sold for 45 acres of land and waterfront development, including residences, retail space, a public promenade and a waterfront park. The waterfront development is between 12th Street, 16th Street and
25-659: Was the largest of the "Big Three" U.S. shipbuilders that could build any ship, followed by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock and New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York Ship). Bethlehem expanded shortly before and during World War II as a result of the Long Range Shipbuilding Program and later the Emergency Shipbuilding program orchestrated by the United States Maritime Commission and
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