Moore Equipment Company

This article is about Company in Stockton, California. For information about company in Oakland, California, see Moore Dry Dock Company.

37°57′18″N 121°17′57″W / 37.9550582°N 121.29923°W / 37.9550582; -121.29923

Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-14
Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-14
Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-11, in 1940

Moore Equipment Company was founded in 1929 by Stanley S. Moore and his father in Stockton, California. Moore Equipment Company a repair and manufacture company of farm machines, road machines and tools. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Moore Equipment Company built a shipyard and switched over to military construction and built: US Navy YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derricks, landing craft and barges. Moore Equipment Company also did work for the US Army repairing and rebuilding jeeps by way of the Ford Motor in Richmond. The shipyard also did Navy ship repair. Moore Equipment Company's main work before the war was on tractors, cranes, trucks, bulldozers, power winches, road scrapers and tools. The Moore Equipment Company office was at 1250 South Wilson Way, Stockton, now the Fairgrounds Industrial Park. Equipment Company sold the factory on February 15, 1944 to International Harvester Company. The shipyard closed after the war.[1][2][3]</ref>[4][5][6]

Moore Equipment Company

Moore Equipment Company in Stockton, California built YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:

Name Built Notes
YSD 35 1943 Worked 17th Naval District, accidentally lost, 16 May 1946 [7]
YSD 36 1943 Lost on 9 August 1946 off Okinawa[8]
YSD 37 1943 Lost off Eniwetok 10 December 1946 [9]
YSD 42 1943 lost off Guam May 1976 [10]
YSD 43 1943 Lost Lost off Eniwetok October 1946 [11]
YSD 44 1943 [12]
YSD 45 1943 [13]
YSD 46 1943 To National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) in 1974 [14]
YSD 47 1943 [15]
YSD 48 1943 Typhoon Louise at Okinawa, 9 October 1945, Lost [16]
YSD 49 1943 [17]
YSD 50 1943 [18]

Landing craft

LCM Landing Craft Mechanized

Moore Equipment Company built Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) Mark 6.[19][20] [21] Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 6 had :[22]

  • Power plant:
    • 2 Detroit 6-71 diesel engines; 348 hp (260 kW) sustained; twin shaft; or
    • 2 Detroit 8V-71 diesel engines; 460 hp (340 kW) sustained; twin shaft
  • Length: 56.2 feet (17.1 m)
  • Beam: 14 feet (4.3 m)
  • Displacement: 64 tons (65 metric tons) full load
  • Speed: 9 knots (10.3 mph, 16.6 km/h)
  • Range: 130 miles (240 km) at 9 knots (17 km/h)
  • Military lift: 34 tons (34.6 metric tons) or 80 troops
  • Crew: 5

Barges

Built in 1945 four YC barges:

  • YC-1089, barge a Type B ship, delivered 11 September 1945, remove from Navy 13 March 2001. Displacement 120 t.(lite) 590 t.(full); Length 110 feet; Beam 35 feet and Draft 8 feet.[23]
  • YC-1090 [24]
  • YC-1091
  • YC-1092

See also

References

  1. ^ Stanley S. Moore v. Commissioner, Docket Nos. 31921, 31922, 12 T.C.M. 925 (1953), United States Tax Court. Entered August 14, 1953.
  2. ^ California during the Second World War, Shipbuilding in Stockton, by Justin Ruhge
  3. ^ Agricultural Machinery - Calif - Stockton: Moore Equipment Co. calisphere
  4. ^ Agricultural Machinery - Calif - Stockton: Moore Equipment Co. Caterpillar tractor calisphere
  5. ^ Moore Equipment Company office at 1250 South Wilson Way, Stockton, calisphere
  6. ^ Ford Richmond Tank Depot
  7. ^ YSD 35 navsource
  8. ^ YSD 36 navsource
  9. ^ YSD 37 navsource
  10. ^ YSD 42 navsource
  11. ^ YSD 43 navsource
  12. ^ YSD 44 navsource
  13. ^ YSD 45 navsource
  14. ^ YSD 46 navsource
  15. ^ YSD 47 navsource
  16. ^ YSD 48 navsource
  17. ^ YSD 49 navsource
  18. ^ YSD 50 navsource
  19. ^ State Listing of Major War Supply Contracts Active as of June 30, 1945, By United States. War Production Board
  20. ^ Small Landing Craft - LCM shipbuildinghistory.com
  21. ^ A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program, Volumes 30-37, page 2584
  22. ^ Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 6
  23. ^ YC-1089 navsource
  24. ^ YC barges shipbuildinghistory