Peyton Company

The Peyton Company, also called Peyton Marine Service and Supplies, was a wooden shipbuilding and dry dock company in Newport Beach, California.

To support the World War II demand for ships, the Peyton Company shipyard switched over to military construction and built Army harbor tugboats and Navy sub chasers.

The Peyton Company leased Newport Harbor waterfront land to build these ships.

After the war, in 1945 the shipyard closed, partly due to the two deaths in the family.

The shipyard office was at 901 Pacific Coast Hwy, Newport Beach.

USS SC-772 Sub Chaser, built by Peyton Company in 1943