Bethlehem Staten Island

The shipyard started building ships for World War II in January 1941 under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program and as the result of the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 1940.

[1][2][3][4] Since 1980 the site is the May Ship Repair Contracting Corporation next to Shooters Island at the southern end of Newark Bay, off the North Shore.

For World War I Staten Island Shipbuilding Port Richmond, built Lapwing-class minesweepers: AM5, AM6, AM7, AM8, AM44, AM45, and AM46.

In 1923 SISB built four Staten Island Ferries: W.R. Hearst, George W. Loft, Youngstown and Rodman Wanamaker.

[6] [7][8] In 1929, Staten Island Shipbuilding merged with five other major New York ship repair facilities to become United Dry Docks, Inc. —the largest company of its type in the world—with the former head of Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Edward P. Morse, as chairman of the board.

USS Bache , Bethlehem Staten Island first Fletcher-class destroyer built in 1942
Staten Island Shipbuilding
USS Farenholt DD-491 at Bethlehem Staten Island slides down the building ways, during her launching on 19 November 1941
Bethlehem Staten Island ship building during World War 2