Lake Washington Shipyard

Lake Washington Shipyards was a shipyard in Houghton, Washington (today Kirkland) on the shore of Lake Washington. Today the shipyards are the site of the lakeside Carillon Point business park.^[1] The shipyards built many civilian and US Navy ships.

Ships built here

Ships built at Lake Washington Shipyards include (with launch dates):

• Issaquah (ferry) 1914
• MV Kitsap 1925
• USS Pathfinder (AGS-1) 1929 (USC&GSS: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship)

see also NOAA historical account

• USC&GSS EXPLORER (1940)
• USS Aloe (YN-1 / AN-6) (11 January 1941)
• USS Ash (YN-2 / AN-7) (15 February 1941)
• USS Boxwood (YN-3 / AN-8) (8 March 1941)
• USS Butternut (YN-4 / AN-9 / ANL-9 / YAG-60) (10 May 1941)
• USS Absecon (AVP-23) (8 March 1942)
• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24) (15 April 1942)
• USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) (15 May 1942)
• USS Half Moon (AVP-26) (12 July 1942)
• USS Mobjack AVP-27 / AGP-7 Seaplane Tender 1942
• AVP-28 / AGP-6 Oyster Bay 1942
• AVP-33 Barataria, WPG-381 / WAVP-381 / WHEC-381 Barataria 1943
• AVP-34 Bering Strait, WAVP-382 / WHEC-382 Bering Strait 1944
• AVP-35 Castle Rock, WAVP-383 / WHEC-383 Castle Rock 1944
• AVP-36 Cook Inlet, WAVP-384 / WHEC-384 Cook Inlet 1944
• AVP-37 Corson 1944
• AVP-38 Duxbury Bay 1944
• AVP-39 Gardiners Bay 1944
• AVP-40 Floyds Bay 1945
• USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) 1945
• AVP-48 Onslow 1943
• USS Orca (AVP-49) 1942
• AVP-50 / AGS-50 Rehoboth 1942
• AVP-51 San Carlos, T-AGOR-1 Josiah Willard Gibbs 1941
• AVP-52 Shelikof 1943
• AVP-53 Suisun 1943
• AVP-54 Timbalier 1943
• AVP-55 / AGF-1 Valcour 1943
• USS Wachapreague (AVP-56 / AGP-8) (10 July 1943)
• USS Willoughby (AVP-57) (AGP-9), USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387) (WHEC-387) (WAGW-387) 1943

References

• NavSource Naval History Archives
• WWII shipbuilding record (Colton Company)