Tampa Shipbuilding Company

[3] The company borrowed $750,000 in 1938 from the Public Works Administration to help pay for the construction of a 10,000-ton dry dock that was being built.

After the dry dock was constructed, in 1939, they were awarded a contract worth $8 million to build four cargo ships.

The other three being: Bushnell-Lyons; Tampa Marine; and Hooker's Point Yard, started by Matthew H. McCloskey, Junior.

[7] African American workers who worked in shipyards were usually excluded from joining local unions as it was common during that time period to not accept them.

An RCA recording would be broadcast from the Morale Department located in the yard originally being an hour long program at noon.

[8] Immediately before and during the United States entry into the Second World War the company built US Navy auxiliaries.

Tampa Shipbuilding built: Admirable-class minesweepers and Type C2 cargo ships, like USS Lassen, USS Mauna Loa and MS Sea Witch, which gained some note in a last attempt to deliver U.S. Army planes to Java, though the twenty-seven crated P-40s had to be destroyed after delivered to prevent them from falling into Japanese hands.