Fellows & Stewart
33°44′46″N 118°12′55″W / 33.746226°N 118.215373°W
Fellows & Stewart Inc. was a shipbuilding company in San Pedro, California on Terminal Island' Pier 206. To support the World War 2 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. The 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: HMAS Air View, 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]
Builters
Some of the builders:[7]
- Joseph (Rusty) Fellows Sr. (1865-1942)
- Richard Joseph Fellows (1906-1962)
- Lois Anderson Fellows
- Victor Stewart (1876-1956)
- Joseph Pugh, built and raced the sloop Mischief in 1909.
Submarine Chaser
Fellows & Stewart Submarine Chase were: 94 tons, length of 110 feet, a beam of 17 feet, a draft of 6 feet, a top speed of 21 knots. They had a crew of 28. Power with two 1,540bhp General Motors, Electro-Motive Division, 16-184A diesel engines and two proppers. They were armed with one Bofors 40 mm gun, two Browning M2 .50 Cal. Machine Gun, two depth charge projector "Y Guns", and two depth charge tracks.[8]
See also
References
- ^ shipbuildinghistory.com, Fellows & Stewart
- ^ gazettes.com, Valentino's Yacht Rediscovered, By Jo Murray, Aug. 23, 201
- ^ classicyacht.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
- ^ navsource.org Submarine Chaser, USCGC Air Partridge (WAVR 444)