Stone Boat Yard
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W. F. Stone & Son or Stone Boat Yard was a small wooden shipbuilding company in Alameda, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships W. F. Stone & Son built tugboats, sub chasers and mines
YT 254, Menatonon (YTB-254) tugboat built by Stone Boat Yard in 1944
W. F. Stone & Son in 1917, on Dennison Street, Oakland building four wooden ships; the three ships are the 117-foot (36 m) schooners Mauno, Motau and Murua for Burmes-Philip Co.
W. F. Stone & Son USS Lanikai at Pearl Harbor, in 1918, as the USS Hermes
The schooner Golden State built in 1913
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
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The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on 638 acres of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city.
Stone Boat Yard
…shipyard was opened in 1853 by William F. Stone (W. F. Stone), from Dartmouth, England, at the Hunter's Point in San Francisco Bay, near the current Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. In 1892 William Stone's son, Frank, ran the company and moved the shipyard to Tiburon. In 1899 he moved the shipyard again to Harbor View, San Francisco…
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 2020
Dry dock construction, around 1917
"Artist's Conception of Proposed Improvements for Hunters' Point when acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. LTD." circa 1910
The battleship crane in 2020