Seattle Construction and Drydock Company

Todd's business at that time consisted of Robins Dry Dock and Repair Company at Eire Basin in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and in Weehawken Cove, Hoboken.

[13] In 1918 Todd moved to the north end of Harbor Island to open a repair dock and Skinner & Eddy took control of both yards on the waterfront.

On 21 January 1924 shipways and removable equipment were sold to the Schnitzer and Wolf Machinery Co, of Portland, Oregon[a] for $226,255 and remaining "Balance of property owned" for $600,000 to the Port of Seattle on 31 December 1923.

Of the 6 steel shipyards active during that time in Puget Sound, Seattle Construction was the only one that had existed prior to the outbreak of World War I. J. F. Duthie & Company had built small boats before, but underwent a major expansion of its facilities in 1916.

[18] Clarence Bagley, in his History of Seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time, Volume 2, wrote: The plant of the Moran company, together with that of the Seattle Dry Dock & Ship Building Company, which had been organized in 1887 and was under the control of the Morans, was at this time the most complete on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Francisco.

It had grown to such immense proportions that even while the construction of its masterpiece, the (USS) Nebraska, was underway, other work was being handled in the same efficient manner as before the big contract had been secured.

Some of the notable work turned out during the period was the building of the steel tugs Bahada and Wyadda, the lighthouse tender Heather and the rebuilding of the steamships Cutch and Willamette.

About the same time five steel whalers were built for companies operating in the northern whaling waters, and in 1913 the $500,000 dry dock was completed.

[34] The company formally ceased operations in 1918, due in large part to the poaching of its skilled laborers by newly established competitors.

[36] It became the "Seattle" in Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation and operated under that name during World War II as one of the biggest suppliers of escort carriers and destroyers for the United States Navy.