At the end of 1942, within the Haifa Port area, the PWD Public Works Department under the management of the Jewish engineer Peretz Willard Etx[8] erected three or four buildings, some of them made of concrete with tin roofs and some made of wood with tin roofs.

Inside the buildings that were erected for the shipyard were two halls where the maritime professionals worked and where they repaired parts of ships that were damaged.

The shipyard worked seven days a week on Saturdays and holidays and fully responded to the needs of the Royal Navy.

[19] When the Shipwrights & Engineers left, the Israeli workers, moved to the Kirstein & Grinshpon company, which developed and took over most of the shipping work in Israel.

After the War of Independence, Kirstein & Grinshpon entered into a partnership with " Soll Bona ", and "Hima" was established.

[21] During the Israeli war of Independence, the workforce at the Kirstein & Greensphon factory worked under economic lockout orders.

At the same time, as part of the effort to occupy the Hebrew labor in the Port of Haifa, the members of the port company arrived with Yohai Ben Nun and a group of professionals was formed in preparation for the process of converting the civilian ships of the Shadow Fleet into the first naval ships.

With the help of the anchor company and the naval shipyard, the ship was cut into four parts and was moved to its designated place as a museum.

[25] The naval shipyards were established at the initiative of Joe Novek, a Yishuv volunteer for the British Royal Navy.

The beginning of the shipyard was at the intersection of Sderot al-Malikim and the German colony where the workshops of the British Public Works Department were situated.

With the arrival of Paul Shulman, other professionals arrived from the United States Navy and received appointments in the Israeli Navy, for example Jonathan Lev[32] a United States Naval Academy graduate was entrusted with the naval gunnery.

[33] Philip Strauss with the inspection of the machinery departments of the ships at sea and the engineering division on the shore, Haim Gershoni was appointed supervisor of shipyard operations and the position of corrections officer.

[34] During the conversion of the qualifying ships into a makeshift war fleet, friction arose between Gershoni and Joe Novick.

One of the cases that caused friction between Gershoni and Novik was the installation of cannons on the ships of the Shadow Fleet.

Alan advanced to the position of head of the naval architecture branch in the Ministry of Defense (Israel) at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 1950, the Navy wanted to invite the prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, to the graduation ceremony of the recruits.

The hall where the ceremony took place was called "David" barracks after the prime minister in whose honor it was built.

[21] During the Suez Crisis, a major operations of the shipyard was the transfer of torpedo ships on carriers from Haifa to Eilat.

On the eve of the Six Day War, the shipyard very quickly finished the renovations of the destroyer Eilat[40] which returned to service after the INS Haifa (K-38) had ceased to be active.

[44] The activity included salvage and flooding from the Saudi coast, towing to the Eilat Naval Base, shipping and repair to an operational condition.

[45] After the establishment of Shayetet 13, the research and planning division of the Weapons Development Authority, began a project based on sabotage boats that were manufactured in Italy and which were used to sink Emir Farooq.