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Shipyard in Stockton, California, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moore Equipment Company was founded in 1929 by Stanley S. Moore and his father in Stockton, California. Moore Equipment Company a repair and manufacture company of farm machines, road machines and tools. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Moore Equipment Company built a shipyard and switched over to military construction and built: US Navy YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derricks, landing craft and barges. Moore Equipment Company also did work for the US Army repairing and rebuilding jeeps by way of the Ford Motor in Richmond. The shipyard also did Navy ship repair. Moore Equipment Company's main work before the war was on tractors, cranes, trucks, bulldozers, power winches, road scrapers and tools. The Moore Equipment Company office was at 1250 South Wilson Way, Stockton, now the Fairgrounds Industrial Park. Equipment Company sold the factory on February 15, 1944 to International Harvester Company. The shipyard closed after the war.[1][2][3]</ref>[4][5][6]
Moore Equipment Company in Stockton, California built YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 35 | 1943 | Worked 17th Naval District, accidentally lost, 16 May 1946 [7] |
YSD 36 | 1943 | Lost on 9 August 1946 off Okinawa[8] |
YSD 37 | 1943 | Lost off Eniwetok 10 December 1946 [9] |
YSD 42 | 1943 | lost off Guam May 1976 [10] |
YSD 43 | 1943 | Lost Lost off Eniwetok October 1946 [11] |
YSD 44 | 1943 | [12] |
YSD 45 | 1943 | [13] |
YSD 46 | 1943 | To National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) in 1974 [14] |
YSD 47 | 1943 | [15] |
YSD 48 | 1943 | Typhoon Louise at Okinawa, 9 October 1945, Lost [16] |
YSD 49 | 1943 | [17] |
YSD 50 | 1943 | [18] |
Moore Equipment Company built Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) Mark 6.[19][20] [21] Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 6 had :[22]
Built in 1945 four YC barges:
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