Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
The Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company (older name: Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company ) was a shipyard on Puget Sound in the US state of Washington and was part of the Lockheed group.
history
The shipyard was founded in 1898 as Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company founded and settled at the mouth of the Duwamish River in the Puget Sound in Seattle on. She was the first ship to build the Governor Pingree , a gold freighter. In 1909 the shipyard was moved to the man-made Harbor Island . In addition to shipbuilding, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also involved in building construction and bridge construction.
From 1944, the shipyard built mine clearance boats for the United States Navy and from 1950 tank landing ships for the Argentine Navy . From 1950 frigates of the Dealey and Brooke classes followed . In 1959 Lockheed took over the shipyard and renamed it Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company in 1965 .
In the following years, the shipyard manufactured other frigates ( Garcia and Knox classes ), destroyers ( Charles F. Adams class ) and amphibious assault ships of the Austin class as well as some civilian icebreakers and freighters. From 1979 the US Navy commissioned the shipyard with the design and construction of the three tenders of the Emory S. Land class and from 1985 with the design of the Whidbey Island class . After building three units of this class, Lockheed closed the shipyard in 1987.