Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division
American shipyard in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division was a shipyard in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. Before applying its last corporate name, the shipyard had been called Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company and Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division. Under those three names, the San Pedro yard built at least 130 ships from 1917 to 1989.[1]
Industry | Shipbuilding |
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Predecessor | Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division |
Founded | 1917 |
Defunct | 1989 |
Fate | Liquidated |
Headquarters | San Pedro, Los Angeles, California |
Parent | Todd Pacific Shipyards, a wholly owned subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation |
The yard opened during the World War I shipping boom, survived bankruptcy in the Great Depression and built Auxiliary ships during World War II. The yard was seized by the Navy in late 1943 and given to Todd Shipyards to manage for the remainder of the war. The yard struggled through the post war period and surged again with commercial work in the 1960s to mid-1970s. The yard peaked again in 1983 during a Navy frigate contract, but was closed in 1989 after failing to secure a DDG-51 contract. The former site was a container terminal in 2015.