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Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
Defunct shipyard in Seattle, Washington / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company (a.k.a. Lockheed Shipbuilding), was a shipyard in Seattle, Washington with Yard 1 on Harbor Island and Yard 2 at what is now Jack Block Park at Seattle Terminal 5, both at the mouth of the West Waterway of Duwamish River. Yard 1 was founded in 1898 as the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, the company that built Harbor Island, and it was purchased by Lockheed in 1959. Yard 2 began operation in 1943 to build ships for the US Navy. The shipyard was permanently closed in 1988; Yard 2 was sold in 1989, and Yard 1 was sold in 1997, both to Port of Seattle.[1]
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![]() USS Emory S. Land (AS-39) under construction at Lockheed Shipbuilding | |
Industry | Shipbuilding |
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Predecessor | Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company |
Founded | 1959 |
Defunct | 1988 |
Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, United States |
Parent | Lockheed |
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