Bay Ship and Yacht Company (Alameda, California)

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2900 Main Street #2100
Alameda, CA 94501
(510) 337-9122

www.bay-ship.com/

One of the few dock facilities still available in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will often see U.S. Coast Guard cutters, tugs and ferries as well as civilian yachts under repair.

Prior to 1910, this was the former site of a Southern Pacific Railroad roundhouse and small yard serving steam locomotives. It is unknown when this facility was built, or what else was associated with it. The roundhouse was demolished in 1910 to make way for the West Alameda Car Shops, which remained in operation until 1941. The shops, sitting at the junction of two lines which served Oakland and Alameda, serviced cars operating on Southern Pacific's East Bay Electric Lines (later Interurban Electric Railway).

The United Engineering Company Shipyard, established in 1941 to build and repair ships for the U.S. Navy, is the last surviving of several large World War II shipyards in Alameda. United Engineering built 21 tug boats and repaired hundreds of ships during the war. Three of the seventeen surviving buildings and structures in the shipyard, including the largest building, were built in 1911 to 1915 as part of the West Alameda Inspection and Maintenance Shops for work on the Red Cars of the extensive East Bay electric car lines of the Southern Pacific Company. During both periods of its history, the facility was one of the largest employers in Alameda and played an important economic and social role in the city.

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