40°43′28″N 124°12′54″W / 40.72444°N 124.21500°W / 40.72444; -124.21500

Eureka Shipbuilding built YT 718, a V2-M-AL1 tugboat drydock 8 November 1945

Eureka Shipbuilding was a wooden shipbuilding company in Eureka, California. The shipyard was just south of town in Fields Landing on the South Bay of Humboldt Bay. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Eureka Shipbuilding shipyard switched over to military construction and built: United States Marine Corps tugboatss. Eureka Shipbuilding was started in 1941. On January 25, 1943 Eureka Ship Builders, Inc. was awarded a contract to build six V2-M-AL1 tugboats at a cost of $35,970 each, contact number DA-MCc-824. V2-M-AL1 tus is a class of Type V ship. The V2-M-AL1 is also called a Port Sewall class tug. V2-V2-M-AL1 tugs were named for American ports. All of Eureka Shipbuilding tug were used for Lend-Lease use to Britain as type TUSA tugs. After the war in 1947 the company was renamed `[1][2][3]

V2-M-AL1 tugboats were: Wood hull, 90 tons, a beam of 19 feet, had a diesel engine with 240 horsepower, fuel Oil tanks with 1920 gallons. Other Built V2-M-AL1 were built by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Standard Shipbuilding, Steinbach Iron works, Arlington Shipbuilding, Texas Shipbuilding, Siletz Boatworks, Blair Company, and Marinette Marine.[4][5]

Eureka Shipbuilding ships

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  • Tugboats, V2-M-AL1 Port Sewall class:
Hull # Ship ID Name Owner Type # Tons Feet. Delivered Notes
1 Port Costa U.S.M.C. V2-M-AL1 1566 90d 66 Jan-44 To Britain as a TUSA as YN 1
2 Port San Luis U.S.M.C. V2-M-AL1 1567 90d 66 Feb-44 To Britain as a TUSA as YN 2
3 Port Chicago U.S.M.C. V2-M-AL1 1568 90d 66 Mar-44 To Britain as a TUSA as YN 3
4 Port Gamble U.S.M.C. V2-M-AL1 1569 90d 66 Apr-44 To Britain as a TUSA as YN 4
5 Port Tobacco U.S.M.C. V2-M-AL1 1570 90d 66 Jun-44 To Britain as a TUSA as YN 5
6 254364 Port Haywood U.S.M.C. V2-M-AL1 1571 90d 66 Jul-44 To Britain as TUSA 229, to USN as YT 718, sold 1947 as Limpiar VI (YTL= Yard tug, little) [6]

Eureka Boat Building & Repair

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Eureka Boat Building & Repair built boats:

Hull # Ship ID. Name Owner Type Tons Ft. Delivered Notes
1 251558 A. N. Lucido Frank J. Leard Fishing 42g 47 1947
2 253402 Vitina A Diego Aranclo Fishing 52g 51 1947 Renamed Anna S

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