Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard
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Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard was a shipyard in Beaumont, Texas that opened in 1948. The yard is located on an island in the Neches River and upstream of the Sabine Pass that grants access to the Gulf of Mexico. The deep-water port shipyard was founded in 1917 as the Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company. Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company started as a World War I Emergency Shipbuilding Program yard.
Pennsylvania Shipyards in Beaumont, Texas. C1 Cargo vessels under construction with welding barges are moored.
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc. on the Neches River in Texas in 1943
USS Sangay (AE-10), a C1-A built by Pennsylvania Shipyards, with a deckload of contact mines in 1943
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.
HMS Calder (K349) under construction as USS Formoe (DE-58), with USS Foss (DE-59) on right at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard on the Weymouth Back River in Massachusetts