Английская Википедия:Fellows & Stewart
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Fellows & Stewart Inc. was a shipbuilding company in San Pedro, California on Terminal Island's Pier 206. To support the World War II demand for ships Fellows & Stewart built Crash rescue boats and submarine chasers. The Crash rescue boats were operated by both the US Navy and US Army during the war. Some crash rescue boat also served in the Korean War. Fellows & Stewart was founded as Joe Fellows Boat Shop in 1896. Joe Fellows was an English immigrant who learned boat building in Seattle and San Francisco. The company changed to Fellows & Stewart as the shipyard manager, Victor Stewart joined in as a partner. Many of the boats were designed by Joseph Pugh. From 1907 to 1917 called the Joe Fellows Yacht and Launch Company. In the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s the shipyard built many yachts and sailboats. The name changed to the Fellows & Stewart Inc. in 1917. In 1967 the shipyard was sold to Harbor Boatbuilding. The shipyard is sometimes listed as being in Wilmington. The records of Fellows & Stewart are housed at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. Notable boats and ships: Шаблон:HMAS, Шаблон:USS, Rudolph Valentino's 1926 yacht Charade (Phoenix) and the Ranger built in 1917 active at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Builders
Some of the builders:[7]
- Joseph ("Rusty") Fellows Sr. (1865–1942)
- Richard Joseph Fellows (1906–1962)
- Lois Anderson Fellows
- Victor Stewart (1876–1956)
- Joseph T. Pugh, built and raced the sloop Mischief in 1909.
Joseph Fellows Sr. was born in Staffordshire, England on May 31, 1865, his family came to America in 1873. His father Isaac Fellows (?–1901) was a carpenter in Decorah, Iowa. At age 14 he became an apprentice first in Spokane, then Portland and then Seattle. He became the shipyard supervisor at the San Francisco Launch Company. In 1898 came to San Pedro to work on the Шаблон:Convert yacht J.C. Elliott. In 1899 he founded his own boat company with Joseph T. Pugh on Terminal Island at Berth 206. Fellows was the co-founder of the South Coast Yacht Club. Starting 1907 his company designed and built many racing boats. Fellows Sr. married Joise McMeans, daughter of James A. McMeans, a Nebraska State Senator (1879). Notable racing boats: Venus, the Minerva, the Minerva II, the Mischief, Mischief II the Myth, Fellows IV and the Monsoo.[8] Notable classic yacht: Stan Laurel's Ida May (1926).[9][10]
Air-sea rescue boat
Fellows & Stewart Air-sea rescue boat, also called a crash boat (ARB), were: Model 314 at Шаблон:Convert, length of Шаблон:Convert, beam of Шаблон:Convert, draft of Шаблон:Convert. Powered by Шаблон:Convert Hall-Scott Defender V12 petrol engines with a top speed of Шаблон:Convert. They had a crew of 7 or 8 and were armed with two .50 calibre M2 Browning machine guns. The boat has two rigid Шаблон:Convert United States Rubber Company bullet sealing fuel tanks. This was a speed boat used to rescue pilots, crew and passengers from downed aircraft in search and rescue, air-sea rescue missions.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Submarine chaser
Fellows & Stewart Submarine Chaser were a Шаблон:Sclass at 94 tons with a length of Шаблон:Convert, a beam of Шаблон:Convert, a draft of Шаблон:Convert, a top speed of Шаблон:Convert. They had a crew of 28. Power was provided by two Шаблон:Convert General Motors, Electro-Motive Division, 16-184A diesel engines, and two propellers. They were armed with one Bofors 40 mm gun, two Browning M2 .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y guns", and two depth charge tracks. Some of the submarine chasers were lent to Allies of the United States as part of the Lend-Lease program. Fellows & Stewart's SC-1011 went to the Soviet Union.[19][20][21]
US Army tugboats
In 1954 Fellows & Stewart built 46 steel-hulled small harbor tugboats for the US Army. The tugboats were: 48 tons net, Шаблон:GRT, with a length of Шаблон:Convert, a beam of Шаблон:Convert. Powered by a diesel White Atlas Imperial engine with Шаблон:Cvt and one propeller. The Fellows & Stewart tugboats were numbered from ST 2100 to ST 2198 of a design 3004. The design 3004 tugboats were completed too late to service in the Korean War, some served in the Vietnam War.[22][23][24][25][26]
See also
- California during World War II
- Maritime history of California
- Wooden boats of World War 2
- Cryer & Sons
References
Шаблон:SC-497 class submarine chaser Шаблон:Miami-class ASR RAN
- ↑ shipbuildinghistory.com, Fellows & Stewart
- ↑ gazettes.com, Valentino's Yacht Rediscovered, By Jo Murray, Aug. 23, 201
- ↑ classicyachtinfo.org Ranger) built in 1917
- ↑ gazettes.com Wooden Boat Adventures, By Jo Murray, Sep 1, 2017
- ↑ Built by Fellows and Stewart in San Pedro, CA, some 40 Island Clippers were produced after WWII from plans drawn in 1939 by Merle J Davis
- ↑ 1922 Cecil B. de Mille Gold Cup, Los Angeles, CA, September 10, 1922
- ↑ California Digital Library., Fellows & Stewart
- ↑ Guinn, 1907, Vol. 2, pgs. 1888-1889
- ↑ mysanpedro.org May in San Pedro: Part Three
- ↑ A History of California, Volume 2, page 1888, By James Miller Guinn
- ↑ uscrashboats.org Design & Construction, 63 foot Air-sea rescue boat
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ navy.gov.au, SAR, Air Nymph (ex-HMAS Air Save)
- ↑ Development of the Miami 63-foot Aircraft Rescue Boat by Jean E. Buhler
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ navsource.org Submarine Chaser, USCGC Air Partridge (WAVR 444)
- ↑ Шаблон:Citation
- ↑ tugboatinformation.com Fellows & Stewart built stell hull tugboat, ST-2112
- ↑ usarmysttugs.com The PACIFIC THEATER US ARMY ST’s from WW2; U.S. Army “ST” Small Harbor Tugs Built 1952 -1954 during the Korean War
- ↑ navsource.org ST-2198 Tug
- ↑ gettyimages.com last tug
- ↑ Stories From Cat Lai, Vietnam, by Gary Kindred
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