Winslow Marine Railway, Port Blakeley WA / Winslow WA
Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. was started by Henry Hall in 1878. In 1903 it outgrew its site in Port Blakely and Mr. Hall developed a new and larger yard on a 77-acre site at Eagle Harbor, on Bainbridge Island, near the village of Madrone, which was later renamed Winslow, in honor of Mr. Hall's deceased brother. Hall sold the business in 1916 to Captain James Griffiths, who renamed it Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company, but leased it the following year to D. W. Hartzel, Inc., for USSB work involving the installation of machinery in hulls built by others. Griffiths took the yard back after WWI and ran it primarily as a repair facility for ferry operators. During WWII, he built steel minesweepers, reaching a peak workforce of 2,300. The yard was sold in 1948 and renamed Commercial Ship Repair of Winslow, but gradually shrank and finally closed in 1959. The property was then split into a marina, an apartment complex and a Washington State Ferries maintenance facility. See it from the air on Google here. Comments or queries, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.
Most recent update: 14 July 2021.
| Hull# | O.N. | Name | Customer | Type | Tons | Delivery | Disposition | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built by Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company in Port Blakely | ||||||||
| Iris | T. R. Foster et al | Schooner | 301 | 1879 | Later James Makee 1879, burnt at Manila 1924 | |||
| Kelpie | T. R. Foster et al | Schooner | 389 | 1880 | Later C. R. Bishop 1880, wrecked 3nm from Maniluirli, Kauai Is 1894 | |||
| Hesper | Cyrus Ryder | Schooner | 1882 | |||||
| Annie E. Campbell | Schooner | |||||||
| Bonita | Schooner | |||||||
| James G. Blaine | Schooner | 505 | 1884 | Later W. G. Hall 1884, scrapped 1917 | ||||
| Rush | U.S. Revenue Service | Gunboat | 550 | 1885 | Deleted 1925 | |||
| Planter | Schooner | 444 | 1886 | Later Mikahala 1887, scrapped 1926 | ||||
| Kauai | Schooner | 268 | 1886 | Later Waialeale 1886, scrapped 1928 | ||||
| 116145 | S. G. Wilder | Schooner | 604 | 1887 | ||||
| 155157 | Oceania Vance | Schooner | 455 | 1888 | ||||
| 86046 | Golden Shore | Rolph Navigation | Schooner | 699 | 1889 | |||
| 92304 | Meteor | Marine Products Corp. | Schooner | 600 | 1891 | |||
| Lyman D. Foster | Hall Bros. | Schooner | 777 | 1892 | Abandoned off Fiji 1913 | |||
| 92538 | Wanderer | Tug | 67 | 1893 | Later Magic | |||
| 126992 | C. S. Holmes | C. S. Holmes Shipping | Schooner | 623 | 1893 | |||
| James Spiers | W. G. Hall | Schooner | 851 | 1896 | Later Mauna Loa 1897, scrapped 1924 | |||
| 90 | Mary E. Foster | Schooner | 828 | 1898 | ||||
| Eric | Schooner | 544 | 1898 | Later Four Winds 1925, Crusader, Quattro Venti, Saro Primo 1934 | ||||
| 141625 | Lottie Bennett | G. E. Billings | Schooner | 566 | 1899 | Later Normandie 1926, Lottie Bennett 1931, foundered off Mexico 1947 | ||
| Winslow | Schooner | 566 | 1899 | Sank in Australia 1917 | ||||
| William H. Smith | Schooner | 1899 | ||||||
| 141661 | Ludlow | Schooner | 762 | 1900 | ||||
| 107687 | Alpena | Schooner | 970 | 1901 | ||||
| 86576 | Gamble | Wesley P. Archer | Schooner | 726 | 1901 | |||
| 117099 | Sophie Christenson | J. E. Shields | Schooner | 675 | 1901 | |||
| 106 | 3940 | Blakely | John S. Wigham | Schooner | 751 | 1902 | ||
| 127614 | Camano | Schooner | 730 | 1902 | ||||
| 127676 | Caroline | Schooner | 511 | 1902 | ||||
| 96614 | H. K. Hall | Schooner | 1,237 | 1902 | ||||
| 93343 | Mabel Gale | Schooner Mabel Gale | Schooner | 762 | 1902 | |||
| 162118 | Blakely No. 2 | Foss Launch & Tug | Scow | 266 | 1903 | |||
| 162879 | H B No 1 | E. A. Black | Freight Barge | 15 | 1903 | |||
| Built by Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company in Winslow | ||||||||
| 201446 | Norwood | Sudden & Christenson | Steamer | 760 | 1904 | Scrapped 1933 | ||
| 202687 | J. B. Stetson | I. J. Harmon | Steamer | 837 | 1905 | Wrecked near Monterey 1934 | ||
| 162438 | Marten | Am. Yukon Nav. | Freight Barge | 416 | 1905 | |||
| 162488 | P. C. Co. No. 1 | Baxter-Wyckoff Inc. | Freight Barge | 68 | 1905 | |||
| Idaho | Am. Yukon Nav. | Freight Barge | 380 | 1906 | ||||
| 162796 | Montana | Am. Yukon Nav. | Freight Barge | 380 | 1906 | |||
| Arizona | Am. Yukon Nav. | Freight Barge | 380 | 1906 | ||||
| Omaha | Am. Yukon Nav. | Freight Barge | 380 | 1906 | ||||
| 203638 | Parthia | Foss Launch & Tug | Tug | 14 | 1906 | |||
| 203502 | Delhi | Pacific Coast Co | Steamer | 986 | 1906 | Wrecked Sumner Strait, Alaska 1915 | ||
| 163153 | Wolverine | Am. Yukon Nav. | Scow | 406 | 1907 | |||
| 163248 | Arthur Rust | Drummond Lighterage | Freight Barge | 360 | 1907 | |||
| 204272 | Nootka | Harry W. Colby | Yacht | 17 | 1907 | |||
| 204509 | Shna-Yak | G. E. Billings | Schooner | 839 | 1907 | Later Charles Christenson 1918, Annie Christenson 1925, scrapped 1937 | ||
| 208848 | Zina | Robert L. Wilton | Yacht | 9 | 1908 | |||
| 163840 | Foss 117 | Foss Launch & Tug | Freight Barge | 636 | 1909 | |||
| 163841 | Foss 115 | Foss Launch & Tug | Freight Barge | 636 | 1909 | |||
| 207369 | Alpha | Tug | 13 | 1911 | Later Turecamo Boys, Robert Gray | |||
| 208384 | W. H. Bancroft | Northwestern Fisheries | Freighter | 179 | 1911 | |||
| 209623 | A. B. Carpenter | Northwestern Fisheries | Tug | 141 | 1912 | |||
| 209874 | Superior | Pacific Am. Fishing | Fishing | 86 | 1912 | |||
| 210082 | Iskum | Pioneer Towing | Tug | 18 | 1912 | |||
| 210233 | Dwarf | O. H. Freeman | Tug | 16 | 1912 | |||
| 251386 | Orcas (Q 150) | U.S. Army | Motor Launch | 57 | 61 | 1913 | Later Sea Lark, Orcas, sank | |
| 164892 | Foss 116 | Foss Launch & Tug | Freight Barge | 805 | 1912 | |||
| 210940 | Kumtux | McCormick Lumber | Tug | 42 | 1913 | Later Venture, NLD | ||
| 211602 | Arctic | Dady Engineering | Tug | 197 | 1913 | |||
| 212096 | Robert G. Seymour | Mildred I. Dockery | Fishing | 25 | 1914 | |||
| 234815 | Fern | Charles D. Stover | Fishing | 146 | 1915 | To USLHS as tender | ||
| na | Swihonish | USACoE | Snag Boat | 291 | 1915 | Later W. T. Preston 1929, partially incorporated into a second W. T. Preston 1939 | ||
| Built by Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company in Winslow | ||||||||
| 166484 | Lundgren No. 2 | Yacht Charters | Scow | 16 | 1916 | |||
| 220731 | Griffson | Griffith & Co. | Freighter | 2,259 | 1916 | |||
| 214251 | Richard S | Robert O. Gunther | Yacht | 8 | 1916 | |||
| 214469 | Inverness | Samson Tug & Barge | Tug | 47 | 1916 | |||
| 215083 | Billie M | Joe E. Lewis | Fishing | 17 | 1917 | |||
| 215084 | Helen H | I. W. Collings | Fishing | 17 | 1917 | |||
| 215117 | Eunice | Alaska Commercial | Fishing | 42 | 1917 | |||
| 142 | 215804 | Anyox | Capt. James Griffiths | Steamer | 1,287 | 1917 | Later Salvage Queen 1941, Sheng-Li 1946, burnt Whangpoo River 1948 | |
| 166838 | Rose No. 10 | Jim Lyons | Freight Barge | 98 | 1917 | |||
| 218008 | Anna May | Paul D. Smith | Fishing | 12 | 1919 | |||
| 218552 | Reta | Felix R. Shoer | Fishing | 8 | 1919 | |||
| 220731 | Griffson | Norton Clapp | Schooner | 2,259 | 1920 | |||
| 225459 | Sueja III | Capt. James Griffiths | Yacht | 179 | 1926 | Now Mariner III | ||
| 226513 | Quillayute | Sound Ferry Line | Ferry | 728 | 1927 | |||
| 227755 | Chahunta | Lincoln County Logging | Tug | 101 | 1928 | |||
| Built by Winslow Marine Ways in Winslow | ||||||||
| na | Brown Bear | US F&W Service | Survey Vessel | 1934 | To USN 1942 as YP 197, returned 1946 | |||
| 233833 | Gary Foss | Foss Launch & Tug | Tug | 63 | 1935 | |||
| 171975 | A J No. 3 | Bolivar S Eqpmt. | Freight Barge | 271 | 1935 | |||
| 171976 | A J No. 4 | Bolivar S Eqpmt. | Freight Barge | 271 | 1935 | |||
| 171977 | A J No. 5 | Bolivar S Eqpmt. | Freight Barge | 271 | 1935 | |||
| 545805 | E. B. Schley | Howe Sound Mining Co. | Tug | 46 | 1937 | No longer documented c1990 | ||
| Howe Sound Mining Co. | Dry Bulk Barge | 1937 | ||||||
| Howe Sound Mining Co. | Dry Bulk Barge | 1937 | ||||||
| Howe Sound Mining Co. | Dry Bulk Barge | 1937 | ||||||
| 174448 | Atlas | Ritchie Tptn. | Freight Barge | 118 | 1939 | |||
| 174449 | L McN & L IX No. 11 | Bern O. Bliss | Freight Barge | 117 | 1939 | |||
| 174491 | P. A. F. No. 6 | Pacific Am. Fisheries | Freight Barge | 100 | 1939 | |||
| na | Puget Sound NSY | Caisson | 1939 | |||||
| na | Pursuit (AM 108) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 1250d | 30-Apr-43 | Reclassified as AGS 17 1952, scrapped 1964 | ||
| na | Requisite (AM 109) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 1250d | 7-Jun-43 | Reclassified as AGS 18 1952, scrapped 1964 | ||
| na | Revenge (AM 110) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 1250d | 27-Jul-43 | Scrapped 1967 | ||
| na | Sage (AM 111) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 1250d | 23-Aug-43 | To Mexico 1973 as Hermenegildo Galeana, now Matamoros (PO 117), active | ||
| na | Salute (AM 294) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 4-Dec-43 | Mined off Labuan and lost 1945 | ||
| na | Saunter (AM 295) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 22-Jan-44 | Scrapped 1946 | ||
| na | Scout (AM 296) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 3-Mar-44 | To Mexico 1963 as DM 09, scrapped | ||
| na | Scrimmage (AM 297) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 4-Apr-44 | Sold 1962, later cable ship Giant II, research vessel Mahi, reefed in Hawaii 1982 | ||
| na | Scuffle (AM 298) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 2-May-44 | To Mexico 1963 as General Felipe Xicotencatl (C 53), scrapped | ||
| na | Sentry (AM 299) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 30-May-44 | To Vietnam 1962 as Ky Hoa (HQ 09), scrapped | ||
| na | Serene (AM 300) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 24-Jun-44 | To Vietnam 1963 as Nhut Tao (HQ 10), scrapped | ||
| na | Shelter (AM 301) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 9-Jul-44 | To Vietnam 1963 as Chi Linh (HQ 11), scrapped | ||
| na | Garland (AM 238) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 26-Aug-44 | Scrapped 1960 | ||
| na | Gayety (AM 239) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 23-Sep-44 | To Vietnam 1962 as Chi Lang II (HQ 08), to the Philippines 1975 as Magat Salamat (PS 20) | ||
| na | Hazard (AM 240) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 31-Oct-44 | Sold 1968, to Omaha NB 1971 as museum | ||
| na | Hilarity (AM 241) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 27-Nov-44 | To Mexico 1962 as D 2, scrapped | ||
| na | Inaugural (AM 242) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | 30-Dec-44 | To St. Louis MO 1968 as museum, swept from moorings and sank 1993 | ||
| na | Illusive (AM 243) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | Cancelled 1945 | |||
| na | Imbue (AM 244) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | Cancelled 1945 | |||
| na | Impervious (AM 245) | US Navy | Minesweeper | 850d | Cancelled 1945 | |||
| na | YTL 571 | US Navy | Yard Tug | 70d | 1945 | Sold 1974 | ||
| na | YTL 572 | US Navy | Yard Tug | 70d | 1945 | To the Philippines 1948 | ||
| na | YTL 573 | US Navy | Yard Tug | 70d | 1945 | To France 1951 | ||
| na | YTL 574 | US Navy | Yard Tug | 70d | 1945 | Sold | ||
| na | YTL 575 to 582 | US Navy | Yard Tug | 70d | Cancelled 1945 | |||
| 260562 | Oil Pilot | Tugs, Inc. | Tug | 55 | 1945 | A converted YTL ? | ||
| 289464 | Rustler | Long Beach Tugboat Co. | Tug | 51 | 1945 | A converted YTL ? | ||
| Built by Commercial Ship Repair of Winslow | ||||||||
| 255784 | W. T. & B. Co. No. 69 | Washington Tug & Barge | Freight Barge | 523 | 1948 | |||
| 265631 | Boundary | City of Seattle | Tug | 17 | 1948 | |||
| 265632 | Skagit | City of Seattle | Tug | 17 | 1948 | |||