Brown Shipbuilding

Brown Shipbuilding Company ranked 68th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

The brothers had no shipbuilding experience, but had helped build Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.

[3] Perhaps the most famous was USS Samuel B. Roberts, part of the outgunned Taffy 3 unit that turned back a Japanese battleship force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

After Todd's Houston division closed in 1985, the yard was once again used by Brown and Root, this time for barge construction and repair.

[4] In 1961, the company won the $200 million contract to build the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.