Talk:New York Shipbuilding Corporation

Covered ways

Can anyone explain what "unusual covered ways" are or means? That turn of phrase was introduced in this revision Thanks. 98.218.248.90 (talk) 06:19, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

It means just what it says - the ways (where the ships were built) were under cover, ie protected from the weather by buildings which surrounded them. This was highly unusual in an era where ship ways were normally exposed to the elements. Gatoclass (talk) 13:24, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

USS Pogy contract cancellation.

I find the info regarding the Pogy contract cancellation because of contributions to Nixon to be dubious but I would never say it's not possible.

I grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi and worked in the submarine program at Ingalls Shipbuilding. The primary reason for the contract cancellation was because of questions regarding quality control with regard to hull welds.

When she was brought to Ingalls, hull X-rays showed that a large portion of the Pogy's hull welds were improperly done. Welders at New York Ship were paid for production. That is, the more welds they completed, the more they got paid.

The HY 80 hulls were very thick and the hull welds required numerous passes to lay in a sufficient amount of metal into the V-grooves where the pieces fit together. X-rays clearly showed that in numerous hull welds, the NY Ship welders had laid large welding rods into the grooves to serve as filler. Ingalls eventually cut most hull welds out and re-welded them.

I have never found this information anywhere online but I heard it first-hand numerous times from several welders, X-ray techs, QA techs, and Superintendents who worked on the Pogy at Ingalls.

  ------------I worked as an intern at the Camden Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum.  I helped the director set up an exhibit on NYS,

and I brought the tidbit about political contributions to the Nixon Campaign to her attention. She has never heard this story and was skeptical. Numerous factors contributed to the 'death' of NYS including Louis Wolfson's gutting of the facility and overbidding on contracts, and a dried up market for Merchant vessels. Until someone digs up some evidence, this 'fact' should be treated as nothing more than a rumor. I do know, however, that the President of NYS sent a telegram to the Secretary of the Navy Connally complaining that the USS Kittyhawk received unfair criticism from some Admirals. Because of the Kittyhawks 'bad review', NYS was barred from bidding on Navy contracts for years. (Source: The Chief Mariner Engineer for NYS, Lofft's (His first name escapes me) memoirs.

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Ship's Built Section

Very lacking - pretty sure this Shipyard build quite a few Ships : 3 large Cruisers USS Alaska, USS Guam, USS Hawaii (not completed), 4 of 14 Baltimore Class heavy Cruisers built there, 10 Cleveland class light cruisers, plus the 9 converted Independence Class light aircraft carriers, 3 Brooklyn class cruisers. USS Colorado DD-45) , Uss Idaho (BB-42) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) , 2 Leahy Class guided missile frigates/cruisers, Truxton (CGN-35) . 6 Adams class DDGs, 4 Dealey class FF.

Something for me to come back and work on. Please pardon my hastiness in this - lack of links. AS I write this, I went to each ship class article ain Wikipedia and checked , wrote the Numbers.

                Here is a start of a table - copying from those 

Ship name	Hull No.	Laid down	Launched	Commission	Decom	Fate
Savannah	CL-42	31-May-34	08-May-37	10-Mar-38	03-Feb-47	Sold for scrap, 25 January 1966
Nashville	CL-43	24-Jan-35	02-Oct-37	06-Jun-38	24-Jun-46	Transferred to Chilean Navy as Capitán Prat, 9 January 1951
Phoenix	CL-46	25-Apr-35	19-Mar-38	03-Oct-38	03-Jul-46	Transferred to Argentine Navy as Diecisiete de Octubre, 9 April 1951, renamed ARA General Belgrano 1956
						Sunk, 2 May 1982, Falklands War
Amsterdam	CL-59	01-May-41	N/A			Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22)
Tallahassee	CL-61	02-Jun-41	N/A			Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS Princeton (CVL-23)
New Haven	CL-76	11-Aug-41				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
Huntington	CL-77	17-Nov-41				Reordered as the light aircraft carrie
						USS Cowpens (CVL-25)
Dayton	CL-78	29-Dec-41				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS Monterey (CVL-26)
Wilmington	CL-79	16-Mar-42				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS Cabot (CVL-28)
Fargo	CL-85	11-Apr-42				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS Langley (CVL-27)
Buffalo	CL-99	31-Aug-42				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS Bataan (CVL-29)
Newark	CL-100	26-Oct-42				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier
						USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)
Wilkes-Barre	CL-103	14-Dec-42	24-Dec-43	01-Jul-44	09-Oct-47	Struck 15 January 1971; Sunk in testing, 13 May 1972
Atlanta	CL-104	25-Jan-43	06-Feb-44	03-Dec-44	01-Jul-49	Struck 1 October 1962; Sunk in testing, 1 October 1970
Dayton	CL-105	08-Mar-43	19-Mar-44	07-Jan-45	01-Mar-49	Struck 1 September 1961; Sold for scrap, 6 April 1962
Independence	CVL-22	01-May-41	22-Aug-42	14-Jan-43	28-Aug-46	Used as target in Operation Crossroads, 1946
(ex-Amsterdam)						Scuttled off San Francisco, 1951
Princeton	CVL-23	02-Jun-41	18-Oct-42	25-Feb-43	N/A	Scuttled following air attack, 24 October 1944
(ex-Tallahassee)
Belleau Wood	CVL-24	11-Aug-41	06-Dec-42	31-Mar-43	13-Jan-47	Transferred to France as Bois Belleau, 1953
(ex-New Haven)
Cowpens	CVL-25	17-Nov-41	17-Jan-43	28-May-43	13-Jan-47	Broken up at Portland, 1960
(ex-Huntington)
Monterey	CVL-26	29-Dec-41	28-Feb-43	17-Jun-43	11-Feb-47	Broken up at Philadelphia, 1971
(ex-Dayton)				15-Sep-50	16-Jan-56
Langley	CVL-27	11-Apr-42	22-May-43	31-Aug-43	11-Feb-47	Transferred to France as La Fayette, 1951
(ex-Fargo
ex-Crown Point)
Cabot	CVL-28	16-Mar-42	04-Apr-43	24-Jul-43	11-Feb-47	Transferred to Spain as Dédalo, 1967
(ex-Wilmington)				27-Oct-48	21-Jan-55
Bataan	CVL-29	31-Aug-42	01-Aug-43	17-Nov-43	11-Feb-47	Broken up at San Francisco, 1961
(ex-Buffalo)				13-May-50	09-Apr-54
San Jacinto	CVL-30	26-Oct-42	26-Sep-43	15-Nov-43	01-Mar-47	Broken up at Los Angeles, 1971
(ex-Newark,
ex-Reprisal)
Lawrence	DDG-4	27-Oct-58	27-Feb-60	06-Jan-62	30-Mar-90	Scrapped
Claude V. Ricketts	DDG-5	18-May-59	14-Jun-60	05-May-62	31-Oct-89	Scrapped
Barney	DDG-6	10-Aug-59	10-Dec-60	11-Aug-62	17-Dec-90	Scrapped
Berkeley	DDG-15	01-Jun-60	29-Jul-61	15-Dec-62	30-Sep-92	Sold to Greece as Themistoklis (D221), scrapped later
Joseph Strauss	DDG-16	27-Dec-60	09-Dec-61	20-Apr-63	01-Feb-90	Sold to Greece as Formion (D220), scrapped later
Conyngham	DDG-17	01-May-61	18-May-62	13-Jul-63	30-Oct-90	Scrapped
Bremerton	CA-130	01-Feb-43	02-Jul-44	29-Apr-45	09-Apr-48	Struck 1 October 1973; Broken up at Portland, Oregon, 1974
				23-Nov-51
Fall River	CA-131	12-Apr-43	13-Aug-44	01-Jul-45	31-Oct-47	Struck 19 February 1971; Broken up at Portland, Oregon, 1972
Macon	CA-132	14-Jun-43	15-Oct-44	26-Aug-45	12-Apr-50	Struck 1 November 1969; Broken up at Port Newark, New Jersey, 1973
				16-Oct-50	10-Mar-61
Toledo	CA-133	13-Sep-43	06-May-45	27-Oct-46	21-May-60	Struck 1 January 1974; Broken up at Terminal Island, California, 1974
John Willis	DE-1027	05-Jul-55	04-Feb-56	21-Feb-57		Stricken 1972
Van Voorhis	DE-1028	29-Aug-55	28-Jul-56	22-Apr-57		Stricken 1972
Hartley	DE-1029	31-Oct-55	24-Nov-56	26-Jun-57		Sold to Colombia as ARC Boyaca (DE-16) 1972, Preserved in Colombia
Joseph K. Taussig	DE-1030	03-Jan-56	03-Jan-57	10-Sep-57

Ship name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate	Reference
Savannah	CL-42	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden	31 May 1934	8 May 1937	10 March 1938	3 February 1947	Sold for scrap, 25 January 1966
Nashville	CL-43		24 January 1935	2 October 1937	6 June 1938	24 June 1946	Transferred to Chilean Navy as Capitán Prat, 9 January 1951
Phoenix	CL-46		25 April 1935	19 March 1938	3 October 1938	3 July 1946	Transferred to Argentine Navy as Diecisiete de Octubre, 9 April 1951, renamed ARA General Belgrano 1956 Sunk, 2 May 1982, Falklands War
Ship Name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned Recommissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
Amsterdam	CL-59	1 May 1941	—			Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22)
Tallahassee	CL-61	2 June 1941	—			Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23)
New Haven	CL-76	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey	11 August 1941	—			Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
Huntington	CL-77		17 November 1941				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Cowpens (CVL-25)
Dayton	CL-78		29 December 1941				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26)
Wilmington	CL-79		16 March 1942				Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Cabot (CVL-28)
Fargo	CL-85	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey	11 April 1942	Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Langley (CVL-27)
Buffalo	CL-99	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey	31 August 1942	Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29)
Newark	CL-100		26 October 1942	Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)
Wilkes-Barre	CL-103	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey	14 December 1942	24 December 1943	1 July 1944	9 October 1947	Struck 15 January 1971; Sunk in testing, 13 May 1972
Atlanta	CL-104		25 January 1943	6 February 1944	3 December 1944	1 July 1949	Struck 1 October 1962; Sunk in testing, 1 October 1970
Dayton	CL-105		8 March 1943	19 March 1944	7 January 1945	1 March 1949	Struck 1 September 1961; Sold for scrap, 6 April 1962	class="sortable wikitable"
Ship Name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
Independence (ex-Amsterdam)	CVL-22	New York Shipbuilding Corporation	1 May 1941	22 August 1942	14 January 1943	28 August 1946	Used as target in Operation Crossroads, 1946 Scuttled off San Francisco, 1951
Princeton (ex-Tallahassee)	CVL-23		2 June 1941	18 October 1942	25 February 1943	—	Scuttled following air attack, 24 October 1944
Belleau Wood (ex-New Haven)	CVL-24		11 August 1941	6 December 1942	31 March 1943	13 January 1947	Transferred to France as Bois Belleau, 1953
Cowpens (ex-Huntington)	CVL-25		17 November 1941	17 January 1943	28 May 1943	13 January 1947	Broken up at Portland, 1960
Monterey (ex-Dayton)	CVL-26		29 December 1941	28 February 1943	17 June 1943	11 February 1947	Broken up at Philadelphia, 1971
					15 September 1950	16 January 1956
Langley (ex-Fargo ex-Crown Point)	CVL-27		11 April 1942	22 May 1943	31 August 1943	11 February 1947	Transferred to France as La Fayette, 1951
Cabot (ex-Wilmington)	CVL-28		16 March 1942	4 April 1943	24 July 1943	11 February 1947	Transferred to Spain as Dédalo, 1967
					27 October 1948	21 January 1955
Bataan (ex-Buffalo)	CVL-29		31 August 1942	1 August 1943	17 November 1943	11 February 1947	Broken up at San Francisco, 1961
					13 May 1950	9 April 1954
San Jacinto (ex-Newark, ex-Reprisal)	CVL-30		26 October 1942	26 September 1943	15 November 1943	1 March 1947	Broken up at Los Angeles, 1971
Ship name	Hull no.	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate	Notes
Lawrence	DDG-4	New York Shipbuilding Corporation	27 October 1958	27 February 1960	6 January 1962	30 March 1990	Scrapped
Claude V. Ricketts	DDG-5		18 May 1959	14 June 1960	5 May 1962	31 October 1989	Scrapped
Barney	DDG-6		10 August 1959	10 December 1960	11 August 1962	17 December 1990	Scrapped
Berkeley	DDG-15	New York Shipbuilding Corporation	1 June 1960	29 July 1961	15 December 1962	30 September 1992	Sold to Greece as Themistoklis (D221), scrapped later
Joseph Strauss	DDG-16		27 December 1960	9 December 1961	20 April 1963	1 February 1990	Sold to Greece as Formion (D220), scrapped later
Conyngham	DDG-17		1 May 1961	18 May 1962	13 July 1963	30 October 1990	Scrapped
Ship Name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned/ Recommissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
Bremerton	CA-130	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey	1 February 1943	2 July 1944	29 April 1945	9 April 1948	Struck 1 October 1973; Broken up at Portland, Oregon, 1974
					23 November 1951	29 July 1960
Fall River	CA-131		12 April 1943	13 August 1944	1 July 1945	31 October 1947	Struck 19 February 1971; Broken up at Portland, Oregon, 1972
Macon	CA-132		14 June 1943	15 October 1944	26 August 1945	12 April 1950	Struck 1 November 1969; Broken up at Port Newark, New Jersey, 1973
					16 October 1950	10 March 1961
Toledo	CA-133		13 September 1943	6 May 1945	27 October 1946	21 May 1960	Struck 1 January 1974; Broken up at Terminal Island, California, 1974
Los Angeles	CA-135	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	28 July 1943	20 August 1944	22 July 1945	9 April 1948	Struck 1 January 1974; Broken up at San Pedro, California, 1975
					27 January 1951	15 November 1963
Chicago	CA-136		28 July 1943	20 August 1944	10 January 1945	6 June 1947	Struck 31 January 1984; Sold for scrap 9 December 1991
	CG-11				2 May 1964	1 March 1980		Name	Number	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
John Willis	DE-1027	New York Shipbuilding	5 July 1955	4 February 1956	21 February 1957	Stricken 1972
Van Voorhis	DE-1028	New York Shipbuilding	29 August 1955	28 July 1956	22 April 1957	Stricken 1972
Hartley	DE-1029	New York Shipbuilding	31 October 1955	24 November 1956	26 June 1957	Sold to Colombia as ARC Boyaca (DE-16) 1972, Preserved in Colombia
Joseph K. Taussig	DE-1030	New York Shipbuilding	3 January 1956	3 January 1957	10 September 1957	Stricken 1972

Wfoj3 (talk) 00:48, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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