Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
Christening and launch of USS Reid (FFG-30), 1981.
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| Industry | Shipbuilding |
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| Fate | Liquidated |
| Predecessor | Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division |
| Founded | 1917 |
| Defunct | 1989 |
| Headquarters | San Pedro, Los Angeles, California |
| Parent | Todd Pacific Shipyards, a wholly owned subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation |
Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division was a shipyard in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. Before applying its last corporate name, the shipyard had been called Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company and Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division. Under those three names, the San Pedro yard built at least 130 ships from 1917 to 1989.
The yard opened during the World War I shipping boom, survived bankruptcy in the Great Depression and built Auxiliary ships during World War II. The yard was seized by the Navy in late 1943 and given to Todd Shipyards to manage for the remainder of the war. The yard struggled through the post war period and surged again with commercial work in the 1960s to mid-1970s. The yard peaked again in 1983 during a Navy frigate contract, but was closed in 1989 after failing to secure a DDG-51 contract. The former site was a container terminal in 2015.
The Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company was founded in April 1917 for the purpose of establishing a shipbuilding and repair facility in Los Angeles Harbor during World War I with Fred L. Baker as president. 69 acres (28 ha) of marsh land on Smiths Island were used for the original construction. The yard received 35 contracts to build cargo ships for the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) of the United States Shipping Board. 30 of the ships were to be 8,800 DWT Design 1013 ships and 5 were 11,500 DWT. The first keel was laid 23 July 1917 for SS Accomac. By 1920, the yard had a 12,000 ton floating dry dock, which cost $1.25 million ($17.3 million today) to build. The first four freighters were delivered in July 1918 and another four were delivered before the war ended.
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