Moore Equipment Company


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.

Moore Equipment Company

Moore Equipment Company in Stockton, California built YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
NameBuiltNotes
YSD 351943Worked 17th Naval District, accidentally lost, 16 May 1946
YSD 361943Lost on 9 August 1946 off Okinawa
YSD 371943Lost off Eniwetok 10 December 1946
YSD 421943lost off Guam May 1976
YSD 431943Lost Lost off Eniwetok October 1946
YSD 441943
YSD 451943
YSD 461943To National Defense Reserve Fleet in 1974
YSD 471943
YSD 481943Typhoon Louise at Okinawa, 9 October 1945, Lost
YSD 491943
YSD 501943

Landing craft

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Moore Equipment Company built Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 6.
Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 6 had:
  • Power plant:
  • * 2 Detroit 6-71 diesel engines; sustained; twin shaft; or
  • * 2 Detroit 8V-71 diesel engines; sustained; twin shaft
  • Length:
  • Beam:
  • Displacement: 64 tons full load
  • Speed:
  • Range: at
  • Military lift: 34 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. 590 t.; Length 110 feet; Beam 35 feet and Draft 8 feet.
  • YC-1090
  • YC-1091
  • YC-1092