USS Enceladus AK-80 N3-M-A1 USN 19-N-51234

Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. of

Camden, New Jersey Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 20 ...

was a

shipyard A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance ...

opened in March 1940 to build ships for

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

under the

Emergency Shipbuilding Program The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 – September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II. Run by the U.S. Maritime ...

. The shipyard was on Cooper Point at north end of North 5th Street at . After building 29 vessels Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. closed in June 1945 after building its last vessels.

Ships built

Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. built ships: * Barracuda for Panama Canal Comm. a Patrol Launch * Albacore for Panama Canal Comm. Patrol Launch *Four US Coast Guard Patrol Launches * General Construction

barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels. ...

USS Firm (AM-98) USS ''Firm'' (AM-98) was an of the United States Navy. Laid down on 21 October 1941 by the Penn-Jersey Corp., Camden, New Jersey, launched on 29 May 1942, and commissioned on 10 April 1943. The vessel was reclassified as a submarine chaser ''P ...

US Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

Minesweeper A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. History The earliest known usage of ...

* USS Force (AM 99) US Navy Minesweeper ** Cargo ships 258 foot type

N3-M-A1 Type N3-S ships were a Maritime Commission small coastal cargo ship design to meet urgent World War II shipping needs, with the first of the 109 N3, both steam and diesel, type hulls delivered in December 1942. A total of 109 N3 ship were built ...

for

United States Maritime Commission The United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) was an independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government that was created by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, which was passed by Congress on June 29, 1936, and was abolished on May 24, 195 ...

: * Elias D. Knight, became

USS Enceladus (AK-80) USS Enceladus (AK-80) (launched 1942) was an Only USS ''Enceladus'' (AK-80) of the ten-ship ''Enceladus''-class, composed of Maritime Commission N3-M-A1 type small cargo vessels, saw significant naval service. The other nine, except , were trans ...

* William Lester * Eben H. Linnell * Asa Lothrop * Laughlin McKay * Oliver R. Mumford, became

Media (AK-83) Media (AK-83)Only USS ''Enceladus'' (AK-80) of the ten ships of the ''Enceladus'' class, composed of Maritime Commission N3-M-A1 type small cargo vessels, saw significant naval service. Of the other nine, excpting USS ''Hydra'' (AK-82), all were ...

* William Nott * John L. Manson * Nathaniel Matthews * Josiah Paul, became

Nashira (AK-85) ''Nashira'' (AK-85) was planned as a civilian cargo ship for the United States Maritime Commission, transferred to the Navy for construction then transferred to the U.S. Army and renamed two days after launching. The ship was never commissioned, t ...

* Sumner Pierce, became

Norma (AK-86) ''Norma'' (AK-86)Only of the ten-ship ''Enceladus''-class, composed of Maritime Commission N3-M-A1` type small cargo vessels, saw significant naval service. The other nine, except , were transferred within months or days of shipyard delivery from ...

* Moses Pike * Symmes Potter, became

Tucana (AK-88) ''Tucana'' (AK-88)Only USS ''Enceladus'' (AK-80) of the ten ships of the ''Enceladus'' class, composed of Maritime Commission N3-M-A1 type small cargo vessels, saw significant naval service. Of the other nine, excpting USS ''Hydra'' (AK-82), all ...

* Charles A. Ranlett **US Navy 173 foot

Submarine chaser A submarine chaser or subchaser is a small naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare. Many of the American submarine chasers used in World War I found their way to Allied nations by way of Lend-Lease in World War I ...

s: * PC 1221 * PC 1222, after war converted to a yacht the ''Gosse'' * PC 1223 * PC 1224 **For Western Maryland Railway two

Car Float A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go. An unpowered barge, it is towed by a ...

* Car Float 21 * Car Float 22

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{{Authority control Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States Companies based in Camden, New Jersey Shipyards of New Jersey

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