Albina Engine & Machine Works

{{Short description|Defunct shipyard in Portland, Oregon, U.S.}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Albina Engine & Machine Works | logo = | logo_caption = | logo_upright =  | logo_alt = | type = Private | industry = {{unbulleted list|Shipbuilding|Ship repair}} | predecessor =  | founded = 1904 | founder = William Cornfoot | defunct = 1969 | fate = Acquired by the Dillingham Corporation | successor = Dillingham Ship Repair | hq_location_city = Portland, Oregon | hq_location_country = U.S. | area_served =  | key_people = | products = | owner =  | num_employees = | num_employees_year =  | parent = | website =  }} '''Albina Engine & Machine Works''' was a shipyard along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Shipbuilding: Albina's Al |magazine=Time |date=September 27, 1943 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,850365,00.html}}</ref> It was located in the Albina area of Portland along N. River Street and N. Loring Street.<ref name="Kramer 2006">{{cite report |last=Kramer |first=George |title="It Takes More Than Bullets: The WWII Homefront in Portland, Oregon" |location=Eugene, Oregon |publisher=Heritage Research Associates |date=December 2006 |at=Section 4.7 |url=https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/docs/multnomah_portland_wwIIcontext_2006.pdf#page=37 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212164026/https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/docs/multnomah_portland_wwIIcontext_2006.pdf#page=37 |archive-date=February 12, 2017 |oclc=892120709}}</ref>

== History == Albina Engine & Machine Works was founded in 1904 by William Cornfoot and others.<ref name="Kramer 2006" /><ref name="ShipbuildingHistory.com">{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/albina.htm |title=Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland OR |website=ShipbuildingHistory.com |access-date=July 1, 2019}}</ref> In 1920, the company formed a subsidiary, the '''Albina Marine Iron Works''',<ref>{{cite news |title=New Iron Works |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-bulletin-albina-machine-wo/180250086/ |work=The Journal of Commerce |date=1920-05-07 |location=San Francisco, California |page=8}}</ref> which also built ships and made ship repairs. Albina Marine was eventually merged into the parent company.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Survey Vessel Replacing Westdahl |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregon-daily-journal-albina-marine-r/180254453/ |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |date=1946-10-26 |location=Portland, Oregon |page=4}}</ref>

The Albina Engine & Machine Works produced a number of freighters during World War I, but operated mainly as a repair yard during the 1920s and 1930s. The Albina yard expanded its workforce and production during Portland's World War II shipbuilding boom. It specialized in producing subchasers, vessels designed to combat German U-boats. Albina Engine & Machine Works also built Landing Craft Support vessels, cargo ships, and barges.<ref name="Kramer 2006" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/the-albina-engine-machine-works-office-c1943/#.XRnAJZNKjfY |title=The Albina Engine & Machine Works office, c.1943 |website=Oregon History Project |publisher=Oregon Historical Society |access-date=July 1, 2019}}</ref>

Business declined in the post-war years, and the company was acquired by the Dillingham Corporation in 1969, along with its subsidiary Fabri-Valve.<ref>{{cite news |title=Honolulu Firm Acquires Two Portland Companies |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=February 12, 1969 |page=7}}</ref> It continued operating as Albina Engine & Machine Works for several years before changing its name to '''Dillingham Marine & Manufacturing Co.''' in 1975; its ship repair division was rebranded as '''Dillingham Ship Repair'''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Albina Engine Changes Name |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=June 20, 1975 |page=D7 |quote=}}</ref> United Press International reported in 1986 that the Dillingham Corporation was seeking a buyout.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dillingham seeking buyout; union upset with memo |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/08/14/Dillingham-seeking-buyout-union-upset-with-memo/6853524376000/ |date=August 14, 1986 |agency=United Press International |access-date=November 4, 2025}}</ref> The assets of Dillingham Ship Repair were sold to Cascade General in 1987.<ref>{{cite news |author=Judy Rooks |title=Vancouver Company Buys Dillingham Assets |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=July 25, 1987 |page=A14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Portland's Ship Repair Business Strengthened With Cascade General Sale |website=MarineLink |url=https://www.marinelink.com/article/ship-repair/portlands-business-strengthened-cascade-481 |access-date=November 4, 2025}}</ref>

== Ships constructed == ===World War I=== right|thumb|S.S. ''Point Bonita'' (American freighter, 1918) on a trial trip on 22 June 1918, near the yard of her builder, the Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon. This ship was in commission as USS ''Point Bonita'' (ID-3496) from October 1918 to April 1919 For World War I in 1918 and 1919, Albina built 17 cargo ships. These were their first ships, Hulls #1 to 17. These were requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB). Some of the cargo ships built for World War I:<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Pacific American Steamship Association |author2=Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast |year=1918 |title=Portland Ship Deliveries |journal=Pacific Marine Review |volume=15 |issue=September |location=San Francisco |publisher=J.S. Hines |url=https://archive.org/stream/pacificmarinerev1518paci#page/n766/mode/1up |access-date=27 June 2015 |page=117}}</ref> {{div col}} *''Point Loma''/''Margit'' Hull #1, renamed SS ''Dorothy Phillips'' *''Point Arena''/''Erling'' Hull #2 *''Point Bonita'' Hull #3 wrecked in 1953 *''Point Lobos''/''Skjold'' Hull #4 burnt in 1967 *''Point Judith'' became ''Charles L. Wheeler Jr.'' Hull #5 *''Point Adams''/''Gorm'' Hull #6 foundered in 1953 *''Cadaretta'' Hull #7 *''Caddopeak'' Hull #8 renamed USS ''Besboro'' *''Callabasas'' Hull #9 torpedoed and lost in 1942 as ''Watsonville'' *''Jacox'' Hull #10 wrecked in 1943 *''Glendola'' Hull #11 torpedoed and lost in 1940 *''Glendoyle'' Hull #12 foundered in 1948 *''Glorieta'' Hull #13 torpedoed and lost in 1942 *''Glymont'' Hull #14 sunk by gunfire in 1942 *''Glyndon'' Hull #15 Foundered in 1924 *''Meriden'' Hull #16 scuttled in 1946, renamed USS ''Majaba'' *''Doylestown'' Hull #17 foundered in 1968 {{div col end}}

===Light vessel=== In 1929–1930, the Albina Marine Iron Works built three lightvessels for the U.S. Coast Guard. Each was: length of 133 feet 3 inches (40.6 m), 33 feet (10.1 m) beam and draft of 11 feet 9 inches (3.6 m) These were specially built as a self-propelled ship that would remain on station for nine months of a year. Outfitted with housekeeping and the light .<ref name=LHF>{{cite web |url=http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=617 |title=Lightship New Bedford LV 114/WAL 536 |date=23 May 2010 |publisher=Lighthousefriends.com |access-date=2012-10-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004131113/http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=617 |archive-date=4 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.swiftsure.org/news/the-last-of-the-us-coast-guard-swiftsure-lightships-takes-on-a-new-life-in-seattle/ |title=Swiftsure Light vessel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/28/2002507200/-1/-1/0/LIGHTSHIP_STATION_INDEX.PDF |title=defense.gov, U.S. Coast Guard Lightships & Those of the U.S. Lighthouse Service}}</ref> * LV 100 ''Blunts Reef'' Completed on 10 February 1930, transferred to the US Navy in 1971, taken to Vietnam.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uscglightshipsailors.org/blunts_reef_lightship_lv100_wal523.htm |title=Blunts Reef Lightship LV100 Wal523 |website=www.uscglightshipsailors.org}}</ref> * LV 113 ''Swiftsure Banks'' Completed on 15 June 1930, donated in 1969 to Sea Scouts, back, then back to USCG, sold for scrap. Sank at shipyard in Willamette River, Portland Or., raised and used for floating restaurant from 1983 to 1987. Sold in 1988 and sank in while being towed to Alaska.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uscglightshipsailors.org/swiftsure_bank_lightship_station_history.htm |title=Swiftsure Bank Lightship Station History |website=www.uscglightshipsailors.org}}</ref> *Lightship No. 114 ''Fire Island'' (WAL-536) Completed 1930. Lightship No. 114 was an active lightship from 1930 to 1971. Her last port was at Portland, Maine. In 1975 she was purchased by the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was not drydocked for normal maintain, her hull rusted. She sank at her station on May 31, 2006, and scrapped.

===Submarine chaser=== [[File:Uss pc-815 1.jpg|thumb|USS ''PC-815'', a subchaser built at Albina Engine & Machine Works in 1942]] [[File:RPS NegOcc PS29.jpg|thumb|right|RPS ''Negros Occidental'' (PS-29)]] 21 of 343 {{sclass|PC-461|submarine chaser|1}}s built during World War II for the US Navy: {{div col}} * ''PC-569'' delivered 8 May 42<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navsource.net/archives/12/010569.htm |title=Submarine Chaser PC |website=NavSource}}</ref> * ''PC-570'' 18 April 42 * ''PC-570'' 18 April 42 * ''PC-571'' 22 May 42 * ''PC-572'' 17 June 42 * ''PC-578'' 13 July 42 * ''PC-579'' 24 August 42 * ''PC-580'' 26 September 42 * ''PC-581'' 9 October 42 * ''PC-582'' 22 October 42 * ''PC-1077'' 9 December 42 * ''PC-1078'' 5 February 43 * ''PC-1079'' 7 March 43 * ''PC-1080'' 29 March 43 * ''PC-1081'' 16 April 43 * ''PC-1082'' 8 May 43 * {{USS|PC-815}} 8 January 43 collision and sank off San Diego 11 September 1945 * ''PC-816'' 9 June 43 * {{USS|PC-817}} 13 July 43 * ''PC-818'' 3 August 43 * ''PC-819'' 2 August 43 * ''PC-820'' 30 September 43 {{div col end}} thumb|right|USS ''Lodestone''

===''PCE-842''-class patrol craft=== thumb|right|{{BRP|Cebu|PS-28}} 20 of 68 PCE-842-class patrol craft submarine chaser built for World War II US Navy, 184 feet long with '''794 DWT''': {{div col}} * ''PCE-867'' delivered 20 June 43<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navsource.net/archives/12/02867.htm |title=PCE-867 |website=NavSource}}</ref> * ''PCE-868'' 31 August 43 * ''PCE-869'' 19 September 43 * ''PCE-870'' 5 October 43 * ''PCE-871'' 29 October 43 * ''PCE-872'' 29 November 43 became BRP ''Cebu'' * ''PCE-873'' 15 December 43 * ''PCE-874'' 31 December 43 * ''PCE-875'' 19 January 44 * ''PCE-876'' 10 June 44, became USS ''Lodestone'' * ''PCE-877'' 14 February 44 became USS ''Havre'' * ''PCE-878'' 13 March 44 * ''PCE-879'' 10 July 44 * ''PCE-880'' 29 April 44 * ''PCE-881'' 31 July 44 * ''PCE-882'' 23 February 45 * ''PCE-883'' 13 November 44 * ''PCE-884'' 30 March 45 * ''PCE-885'' 30 April 45 * ''PCE-886'' 31 May 45 {{div col end}}

===Landing Craft=== [[File:LCI-713 2012 - Portland Oregon.jpg|thumb|right|Partially restored {{USS|LCI(L)-713}} in Portland, Oregon, in 2012]] right|thumb|{{center|The U.S. Navy large infantry landing craft {{USS|LCI(L)-551}} in May 1945}} *'''LCI (L)''' Landing Craft were not given names. Albina built LCI(L) 1013 to LCI(L) 1033 in 1944. There were Landing Craft Infantry Large. LCI(L) had a displacement 216 tons light, 234 tons landing; and 389 tons loaded. LCI(L) had a length of 158' 5 1/2", beam of 23' 3", light draft of 3'1". To speed of 16 kts and 4 kts continuous. They had four to five Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, each gun was mounted inside of a round gun tub with a shield. LCI(L)-1022 became the USS ''Rail'' (AMCU-37).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navsource.net/archives/10/15/151024.htm |title=Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L)-1018 |website=NavSource}}</ref>

*'''LCC (1)'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/lcother.htm |title=Landing Craft Other LCM LCVP LCPL LCV LCP LCC |website=shipbuildinghistory.com}}</ref> Albina built 27, LCC 25470 to LCC 25496 in 1943 and 1944. Landing Craft, Control Mark 1: displacement full, 30 tons, length56 feet - 17.1 m, beam 4 m, draft 1.2 m, top speed 13.5 kts, 450 HP, 2 diesel engines, armament two 90 mm gun. Landing Craft, Control were used by Scouts and Raiders leading the Invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. They had new radar system and help guide the landing craft on each landing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://landingship.com/lcc.htm |title=LCC - Landing Craft Control |website=landingship.com}}</ref>

*'''LCC(2)''' Albina built 15, LCC(2) 39044 to LCC(2) 39058, in 1944. Landing Craft, Control, Mark 2, 56 feet long, 30 tons LDT.

*'''LCS(L)''' Albina built The Landing Craft Support (Large), or "LCS(L) Mark 3. Built from LCS(L) 61 to LCS(L) 78 and LCS(L) 48 to LCS(L) 60. Built on a standard LCI hull and was add more gunfire support and crew accommodation. They had a single 3"/50 caliber gun and/or two twin 40 mm cannon and numerous 20 mm cannon. Many were used in Pacific Theater invasions in late 1944 and into 1945.

===Concrete Barge=== These were a type of concrete ship a class of Type B ships. Steel shortages led the US military to order the construction of small fleets of ocean-going concrete barge and ships. Displacement: {{convert|245|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}}, full load: 1360 tons. Length:{{convert|165|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}}, beam: {{convert|42|ft|m|abbr=on}}, draft: {{convert|8|ft|m|abbr=on}}, crew of 3 men. YOGN were a class Non-self-propelled Gasoline Barge: {{div col}} *''YOGN-114'' *''YOGN-115'' used to support cooling efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=59318 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805054707/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=59318 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 5, 2012 |title=navy.mil, U.S. Navy to Provide 500,000 Gallons of Fresh Water to Fukushima Power Plant, 3/25/2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-us-rushes-freshwater-to-help-japan-nuclear-plant-2011mar26-story.html |title=US rushes freshwater to help Japan nuclear plant |date=March 26, 2011 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune}}</ref> *''YOGN-116''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navsource.net/archives/14/13116.htm |title=Yard Oiler (YOG) Photo Index |website=NavSource}}</ref> *''YOGN-117'' *''YOGN-118'' *''YOGN-119'' renamed YON 367, sunk as target 1973 *''YOGN-120'' renamed Ex-BG 1165, sunk as target 1978 *''YOGN-121'' *''YOGN-122'' Ex-BG 8452, scrapped 1986 *''YOGN-123'' Ex-BG 6380, YON 252 *''YOGN-124'' Ex-BG 6383, struck 2006 *''YOGN-125'' Ex-YWN 154, now YON *Built by Manitowoc SB in Manitowoc WI, 174 feet long, 440 tons *''YOGN-196'' renamed Ex-YO 196, sunk as target 2000 *YO 174 *YO 175 *YO 176 *YO 177 *YOG 61 *YOG 62 *YOG 63 *YOG 64 *YOG 65 {{div col end}}

===C1-MT-BU1=== The C1-MT-BU1 was a subtype of a Cargo Type C1 ship, modified from the C1 design for use as lumber transports, 5,032 DWT, launched in late 1945 and early 1946.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/merchantships/2c1cargoships.htm |title=C1 Cargo Ships |website=shipbuildinghistory.com}}</ref>

* 4 of 4 C1-MT-BU1 **''Oregon Fir'' wrecked and scrapped in 1967 **''California Redwood'' **''Washington Cedar'' **''Arizona Pine''

===Coastal freighter – FS=== Albina built 20 Coastal freighters, type FS in 1944 and 1945. Most were transferred to the Dutch Government. There they were used in Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia for inter-island shipping. The Dutch Government sold them to Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij in 1948. These were 555 DWT and 176 feet long.<ref>[http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/armyfreighters.htm hipbuildinghistory.com, Army Coastal Freighter -FS]</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/albina-engine-machine-works-inc-portland-or Media related to Albina Engine & Machine Works] at the Oregon Historical Society

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