Stephens Bros. Boat Builders
Stevens Brothers Boat Builders and Designers company, an American boat designer, began in the back yard of brothers Theodore and Robert Stevens. Their boatbuilding firm in Stockton, California operated from 1902 to 1987. Over the years the company became famous for its elegantly designed pleasure craft, including sailboats, speedboats, cruisers and private yachts. Stevens Bros. also built many vessels for the U.S. military, especially during World War II. The company's first vessel was the sloop Dorothy, in 1902.
Stevens Bros. Boat Builders with 63-foot Crash boats in 1944
Fred F. Lambourn, 28-foot (8.5 m) commercial runabout, 1911
Paraja Stephens Bros., 44 foot cutter, late 1930s
104-foot Air Rescue Boat, 1943
Crash boats of World War II
Crash boats, at the time known as "aircraft rescue boats" or "air-sea rescue boats", were United States high speed boats built to rescue the crew of downed Allied aircraft during World War II. US boats came from the observation of British experience with high-speed launches (HSL) by the Royal Air Force Marine Branch during the Battle of Britain.
85-foot crash boat P-520 on the Willamette River in Portland in 2007
AAF / USAF Crash Rescue Boat Association plaque, in Memorial Park at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio
Army Air Forces 42 foot Rescue Boat
42 foot boats built for US Army, cutaway