Lake Washington Shipyard


Lake Washington Shipyards was a shipyard in the northwest United States, located in Houghton, Washington on the shore of Lake Washington, east of Seattle. Today, the shipyards are the site of the lakeside Carillon Point business park. The shipyards built many civilian and U.S. Navy ships.

History

Lake Washington Shipyard was founded in the 19th century as the Anderson Shipyard. This shipyard specialized in the construction of wooden tugs and ferries. In 1923, Anderson Shipyard was bought by Charles Burckardt and renamed Lake Washington Shipyards. The new shipyard converted to steel shipbuilding. During World War II, its workforce grew to 9,000 employees and it was a major repairer of small ships as well as a builder. After the war, the company stopped making new ships but continued to repair old ones until it finally closed in the 1960s. Today, the commercial/residential development at Carillon Point occupies the site of the former shipyard.

Ships built here

Ships built at Lake Washington Shipyards include. Many of the US Navy's AVP-class seaplane tenders were transferred to the US Coast Guard after World War II and redeployed as High Endurance Cutters and Ocean Station vessels:

Seattle Seahawks

The expansion Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League were based at the southern end of the property for their first ten seasons.