Fellows & Stewart
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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, USS SC-1012, 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.
Air-sea rescue boat
Fellows & Stewart Air-sea rescue boat, also called a crash boat (ARB), were: Model 314 at 23 long tons (23 t), length of 63 ft (19 m), beam of 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m), draft of 4 ft (1.2 m). Powered by 630 hp (470 kW) Hall-Scott Defender V12 petrol engines with a top speed of 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph). They had a crew of 7 or 8 and were armed with two .50 cal. M2 Browning machine guns. The boat has two rigid 795 gallon 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.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Submarine Chaser
Fellows & Stewart Submarine Chaser were a SC-497-class submarine chaser at 94 tons with a 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. Some of 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.[16][17][18]
US Army tugboats
In 1954 Fellows & Stewart built 46 steel hull small harbor tugboats for the US Army. The tugboat were: 48 tons net, 69 tons gross, length of 64 feet, a beam of 19 feet. Powered by a diesel White Atlas Imperial engine with 600bhp 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 the Korean War, some served in the Vietnam war. [19][20][21][22]
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
- ^ uscrashboats.org Design & Construction, 63 foot Air-sea rescue boat
- ^ Dunn, Peter (2008). "Air-Sea Rescue Boats, RAN, during WW2". Australia at War. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ Thompson, R.H.J. (November 2011). "Fairmile class patrol boats and kin ships: a brief history" (PDF). The Fairmile Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ navy.gov.au, SAR, Air Nymph (ex-HMAS Air Save)
- ^ Development of the Miami 63-foot Aircraft Rescue Boat by Jean E. Buhler
- ^ SS Tiger Shark
- ^ ARB, SS Tiger Shark, Deck blueprint top view
- ^ SS Tiger Shark, Deck blueprint side view
- ^ navsource.org Submarine Chaser, USCGC Air Partridge (WAVR 444)
- ^ Splinter Fleet, retrieved 16 January 2019
- ^ 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
