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Moore Equipment Company

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

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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

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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

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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

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References

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