Lake Washington Shipyard

Today, the shipyards are the site of the lakeside Carillon Point business park.

During World War II, its workforce grew to 9,000 employees and it was a major repairer of small ships as well as a builder.

After the war, the company stopped making new ships but continued to repair old ones untit it finally closed in the 1960s.

[3] Ships built at Lake Washington Shipyards include (with launch dates).

Many of the US Navy's AVP-class seaplane tenders were transferred to the US Coast Guard after World War II and redeployed as High Endurance Cutters and Ocean Station vessels: The expansion Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League were based at the southern end of the property for their first ten seasons (1976–1985).