Vigor Shipyards

Vigor Shipyards

Predecessor	Todd Pacific Shipyards
Founded	1916 - William H. Todd Corporation 2011 - Vigor Shipyards
Number of locations	4 Seattle, WA (Vigor Industrial) Everett, WA (Vigor Industrial) Portland, OR (Vigor Industrial) Bremerton, WA (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard)
Parent	Vigor Industrial (2011)
Website	vigorindustrial.com/vigor-shipyards

USS Halyburton (FFG-40)–center–and other ships under construction at Todd Shipyards in Seattle, 1983

Vigor Shipyards (formerly Todd Shipyards) was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation through the merger of Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company of Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York, the Tietjen & Long Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, and the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company. The Seattle shipyard could trace its history back to 1882, when Robert Moran opened a marine repair shop at Yesler's Wharf. This shop became the Moran Brothers Shipyard in 1906 and the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Company at the end of 1911.

The shipyard has performed building and maintenance work for, among others, the U.S. and Royal Australian Navies, the United States Coast Guard, and the Washington State Ferries. Its headquarters and operations are on Harbor Island at the mouth of Seattle's Duwamish Waterway. Todd ranked 26th among United States corporations in the value of World War II production contracts.

The 105-foot-long (32 m) hull of Disneyland's Mark Twain riverboat was built at Todd Shipyards in San Pedro, California in 1955.

In February 2011, Vigor Industrial purchased Todd for US$130 million. This included the Seattle, Everett and Bremerton operations. Today, Vigor Shipyards is a government repair subsidiary of Vigor Industrial.

Locations

Master of Ceremonies and Vice President of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, Hans K. Schaefer, speaks during christening and launching ceremonies for the guided missile frigate USS Reid (FFG-30) at the Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., Los Angeles Division, 1981.

• Seattle, Washington ()
• Bremerton, Washington ()
• Everett, Washington ()
• Portland, Oregon ()

Past Locations

• Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California. () Formerly Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation, closed in 1989 following completion of its Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate contract and after failing to win an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer contract. Property is now part of the Port of Los Angeles, and has been completely converted into Berth 100 / West Basin Container Terminal.
• San Francisco Division, Alameda, California. () Opened 1901, by United Engineering Company, later named Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyard, then Todd San Francisco Division, 1949. Mostly used as a repair or conversion facility; now closed. Documented by the Historic American Engineering Record as United Engineering Company Shipyard, survey HAER CA-295.