Kneass Boat Works

Kneass Boat Works was a shipbuilding company in San Francisco, California.

To support the World War 2 demand for ships, Kneass Boat Works built: US Navy Sub chasers, US Army barges and tugboats.

Kneass built small boats, launches, rowboats, barges, lifeboats), sailboats, and a few wooden cruisers.

[1][2][3][4] The United States Government awarded Webster Lincoln Kneass a certificate of Outstanding Service to the Country for both its WWI and WWII efforts in 1945.

Power was provided by two 1,540-brake-horsepower (1,150 kW) General Motors, Electro-Motive Division, 16-184A diesel engines, and two propellers.

Kneass boat shop on 3rd Street in San Francisco, California, in 1899
USC&GS Taku an 1898 70-foot survey ship
Plaque from the Hr.Ms. Breskens , a Royal Netherlands Navy Beemster-class minesweeper